Personal finance is often taught as a list of rules: pay off your card, start saving early, diversify. Students can memorize the rules, but they get stuck when real life doesn’t fit one. Econiful’s personal finance curriculum gives students something sturdier: a decision-making toolkit grounded in economic principles.
In this session, you’ll complete the digital version of our opening activity, designing a shared living room on a budget, and see how it introduces the principles of economic thinking that anchor the course. We’ll summarize the rest of Unit 1: Fundamentals of Decision Making, taking a closer look at our lesson on setting SMART goals, a topic that gets little attention in most personal finance curricula. You’ll leave with free, classroom-ready materials to use this spring. Five U.S.-based Econiful members will win a $25 Amazon gift card.
- For questions regarding this resource, please contact Econiful.
- Contact Name: Mickell McKinnon
- Email Address: mickell@econiful.org