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=Personal Finance 2011-12=

Welcome to Personal Finance!

The goal of this class is to walk through some of the decisions you'll be facing in the next few years as you finish up high school and head off to the next season of life. We'll be covering 8 decision areas over the year, with each topic taking 3 weeks to cover.

The first week will be discussion of the decision topic and some of the key terminology and concepts in the decision. For the second week we'll hopefully go onsite as if we were making those decisions -- what does it feel like to walk around a car lot while a sales rep is encouraging you to buy a car? what is an insurance office like and what do they talk about? what kind of questions do you ask when you go into a bank to open up an account? The 3rd week will be a wrap up of the topic -- some of the things we learned on the field trip or some additional information about the topic.

It should be fun -- and hopefully it will make some of the upcoming decisions easier. You'll probably have some homework but not much -- and when there is homework, it should be relevant to the topic on hand.

This wiki has an initial outline of topics but this is a work in progress and overall unit topics may get shifted around. The calendar should be close to being right as far as dates go and as we have locations of field trips, timing, addresses, etc., those will be updated on the calendar.

If you have questions, just ask!

Linda lwhipker @gmail.com