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2009 Institute for Staff Development
Students Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Who Wouldn’t Like Who Wouldn’t Like to Be a Millionaire:to Be a Millionaire:Teaching NAF’s Advanced Teaching NAF’s Advanced Finance CourseFinance Course
2009 NAF Summer Institute July 7-11, 2009 Phoenix, AZ
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
About Me• Fran Thew—John I. Leonard High
School:
Greenacres, Florida
• Chair of Business/Computer Science departments
• Got started with NAF in YOP for AOF
• 2007-2008 Curriculum Fellow: Advanced Finance
• 2008-2009 Curriculum Leader
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
NAF Curriculum: Introducing the Academy of Finance
Courses Currently Offered (with pilot complete)
Courses to be added (and piloted) in 2009-2010
• Introduction to Financial Services
• Advanced Finance• Business Economics• Ethics in Business• Financial Planning• Financial Services• Principles of Accounting
• Principles of Finance• Entrepreneurship• Insurance• Managerial Accounting• Business in a Global Economy
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
NAF Curriculum Highlights
NAF Curriculum
Beliefs
NAF Curriculum
Beliefs
Standards-Based
Standards-Based
RigorRigor
RelevantRelevantProject-Based
LearningProject-Based
Learning
Literacy Integration
Literacy Integration
FlexibilityFlexibility
NAF Curriculum Highlights: PBL
Recognize students’ inherent drive to learn.
Recognize students’ inherent drive to learn.
Encourage collaboration and cooperation.
Encourage collaboration and cooperation.
Use performance-based assessments that require a range of skills and knowledge.
Use performance-based assessments that require a range of skills and knowledge.
Highlight questions that lead students to in-depth exploration of authentic and important topics.
Highlight questions that lead students to in-depth exploration of authentic and important topics.
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Advanced Finance: Assumptions and Prerequisites
Students have
completed Principles of
Finance
Students have
completed Principles of
Finance
Students have a solid
understanding of financial concepts
Students have a solid
understanding of financial concepts
Students have some basic
computer skills (ability to type,
use word processing
programs, do simple Internet
research).
Students have some basic
computer skills (ability to type,
use word processing
programs, do simple Internet
research).
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Advanced Finance: Course Topics
• Financial Concepts• Profit and Risk• Financial Analysis Strategies• Capital and Financial Markets – stocks, bonds,
financial institutions• Employees, Taxes and Ethics including
Globalization of Business• Careers in Finance
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Course Introduction: Projects
Minor ProjectMinor Project
• Students function as a consulting firm hired by Eduardo Cisneros of ECPak Company (a business producing MP3 players) to help him improve his profit as his business begins to grow
• Students function as a consulting firm hired by Eduardo Cisneros of ECPak Company (a business producing MP3 players) to help him improve his profit as his business begins to grow
• Student teams role-play company representatives pitching to a group of investors about the financial benefits of investing in their chosen company.
• Driving Question: “How can we, as company representatives, best encourage investors to invest in our company?”
• Student teams role-play company representatives pitching to a group of investors about the financial benefits of investing in their chosen company.
• Driving Question: “How can we, as company representatives, best encourage investors to invest in our company?”
Culminating Project
Culminating Project
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Sample Student Presentations
• Lesson 8 – 401K Financing
• Lesson 9 – Introduction to the Stock Market
• Lesson 9 – Stock Exchange
• Lesson 10 – Bonds
• Lesson 10 – Mutual Funds
• Lesson 12 – Child Labor
• Lesson 15 – Environmental and Social Satisfaction
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Experience the Curriculum• Lesson Name: Business Life Cycle
– Unit 1: Getting Started
– Lesson 2: Financial Concepts
• Learning Concept: The business life cycle stages of business growth, development, and decline.
• Instructional Strategy: List/Group/Label
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Experience the Curriculum
• Discussion:
– How might you use list-group-label in your classroom?
– How is this strategy similar and/or different to what you already do in the classroom?
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Support from Curriculum Leaders
Here to help – both with
content and pedagogy.
Here to help – both with
content and pedagogy.
Ready to hear your ideas about
how to revise and improve the
course.
Ready to hear your ideas about
how to revise and improve the
course.
Contact information is
always available on the Course
Overview page of the NAF
Curriculum Library.
Contact information is
always available on the Course
Overview page of the NAF
Curriculum Library.
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Collaboration Network
• Andy Rothstein’s Blog
• Discussion Forums for all NAF courses
• Multimedia presentations
• Curriculum Spotlight: Advanced Finance
2009 Institute for Staff DevelopmentStudents Today, Leaders Tomorrow
Thank you!
• For more information, contact me:
– Collaboration Network: FranThew
• Blog: Fran Thew's Musings on the NAF Curriculum and the World of Computers
• Course Forum: Advanced Finance