Summer Institute Details and Registration

Develop the Confidence to Integrate Financial Education into your Classes

Plus: All participants will receive a free collegiate-level personal finance textbook, as well as classroom-ready instructional materials, and access materials before and after the class that will be held on a Summer Institute Wiki Web site.
Registration: Register online at the bottom of this page OR Download, Print & Fax or Mail the Application [PDF]
Contact and Scholarship Information : John Pelletier, Director, Center for Financial Literacy, at CFL@champlain.edu or (802) 860-2744.

HELP YOUR STUDENTS PREPARE FOR A LIFETIME OF FINANCIAL WELL-BEING

If you're like most teachers, you believe financial literacy should be part of the education of our young students. As a participating teacher at the Summer Institute, you will gain the framework, competencies and confidence to integrate financial literacy into your middle school or high school classroom-leaving the week-long program with a concrete plan ready for the start of the school year in the fall.

The Center for Financial Literacy will be accepting applications for the Vermont Teachers Financial Literacy Summer Institute 2012 until May 4, 2012. Accepted teachers will be notified no later than June 1, 2012; others will be placed on a waiting list for the 2013 program.

The Center for Financial Literacy aims to have participation from at least 75 percent of Vermont Supervisory Unions. Currently, the Summer Institute has funding for three years.

The Curriculum: A Prototype for Excellence
The Summer Institute will use a high-quality pilot curriculum consolidating the best in financial literacy education as compiled by a national steering committee made up of the Jump$tart Coalition, National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE), Council for Economic Education, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Family Economics and Financial Education, Junior Achievement, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S. Department of the Treasury

Topics covered will include:

• Income and Careers
• Planning and Money Management
• Credit and Debt
• Risk Management and Insurance
• Saving and Investing
• Financial Responsibility and Decision Making
• Classroom Ready Curriculum
• Games and Activities to Promote Financial Literacy in the Classroom

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