The award-winning Financial Fitness for Life curriculum also includes the youngest students. The FFFL curriculum is correlated with standards in language arts, mathematics, economics and personal finance. This curriculum has 16 lessons, including background information, preparation materials, student activities, and assessments. All lessons are based on active learning and an illustrated storybook highlights topics in each lesson.

Students will learn:

☼     Why education pays

☼     Why saving makes us wait but provides more opportunity

☼     How advertising affects spending

☼     What is credit

☼     How to manage money

There is an opportunity to assign homework that must be completed with the help of parents, using the accompanying Parent Guide.

The workshop is free; participants will receive a Teacher’s Guide, a Student Storybook, a Parents’ Guide, and a CD-Rom. NO BACKGROUND IN ECONOMICS IS REQUIRED.

Saturday, October 16

9:00-12:00

Teaching/Learning Academy

Non-Memphis City School teachers can register by first calling 320-3416 to get in the TLA system. Then call 323-1174 (automated registration) and sign up for # 973812. MCS teachers are already in the system and can call 323-1174 directly. Call Dr. Julie Heath, 678-5927 or jheath@memphis.edu with questions.

WORKSHOP WILL ACCOMMODATE A MAXIMUM OF 30 PARTICIPANTS, SO REGISTER EARLY!

Workshop made possible by a grant from Bank of America