FINANCIAL LITERACY

Course Description

Financial Literacy is designed to alert, inform, and educate students in concepts of personal finance and money management. Students will begin to develop the skills and strategies that promote personal and financial responsibility related to financial planning, savings, investment, and charitable giving in the global economy.

Financial Literacy is a graduation requirement satisfying the 9.2 Personal Financial Literacy Standard  of the New Jersey Core Curriculum content area, 21st – Century Life and Careers.  

9.2 Personal Financial Literacy: All students will develop skills and strategies that promote personal and financial responsibility related to financial planning, savings, investment, and charitable giving in the global economy.  

It is a semester-long course for 2.5 credits that must be completed independently of the graduation requirements in the areas of Social Studies, Mathematics, or Practical Arts.

Financial Literacy will introduce students to concepts of personal finance in the following units:  Career Exploration, Paycheck and Taxes, Planning and Money Management, Savings and Investments, Credit and Debt, and Risk Management and Insurance.

In addition to developing skills in the area of financial literacy, students will develop basic skills across the curriculum including basic literacies in reading, writing, listening, speaking, information, economics, technology, mathematics, visual and global studies.

Students will gain knowledge in navigating the information network of Voorhees High school that will be beneficial throughout their high school career and beyond.  Students will develop individual profiles via Naviance and the guidance department to assist in developing their post – secondary plans.  Students will work on computers for research purposes, assessments and communication with the instructor. Each student will develop a personal financial profile by creating a webpage that can be accessed and altered after the completion of the course.