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Class - Economics & Personal Finance
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SKU: economics and personal finance
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Economics & Personal Finance: Sherri Heinzman
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Class Fee: $475.00 ($9.90 per class hour) - Material Fee: $20.00
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Curriculum: $150.00
Homework: YES
Hours/Week: 2-4
Max/Min Students: 12/6
Grades: 10 - 12th
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1st Semester Economics:
Economics may be the most exciting and relevant course your high school student ever takes! The Economic principles that will be explained to the student through instructional and discussion oriented.
Prosperous societies vs. those who remain in poverty
Job creation and innovative products and services
Failing government programs and policies
Economics flows from common sense observations and insights into everyday life. The core textbook, Common Sense Economics, is an easy to understand book that explains economic principles using everyday language and easy to understand illustrations and examples. It also determines today´s social and political landscape, and students who understand these principles are well-positioned to take on leadership in business, government and society.
16 week Economics Curriculum:
Common Sense Economics, by Gwartney, Stroup, Lee
Planning for Freedom, by Ludwig von Mises
The Law, by Frederic Bastiat
Great Myths of the Great Depression, by Lawrence W. Reed
Eight Economic Principles, DVD lecture by Russel Sobel
ECONOMICS IN A BOX Student Study Guide, by Pamela Cooper
Whatever happened to Penny Candy? By Richard Maybury
Penny Candy Bluestocking Guide workbook
2nd Semester: Personal Finance
The goal of teaching Personal Finance is to provide the student with all the insights of their own financial life. Each student will gain a broader knowledge of the different aspects of how the financial world operates and how to manage personal finances. Business people from the community will also visit our class to give a perspective. In 2006 the
Texas legislature passed a bill requiring public high school students to be taught the following 12 topics:
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Balancing a Checkbook
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Renting to Buying Transition
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Understanding Credit
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Understanding Insurance
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Bankruptcy
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Starting a Small Business
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Home Ownership
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Types of Loans
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Saving for Retirement
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Investment Options
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Types of Accounts
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Giving to Charities
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16 week Personal Finance Curriculum:
A syllabus for this course will be available on Mrs. Heinzman’s class website for the entire 16 week course (There will be no cost for student curriculum; only a materials fee for projects.) www.caia-heinzman.webs.comStudents/Parents will want to sign up for the class emails and assignments on this website.
Class Time: 1 1/2 hours. This is a two 16-week semester, 8 month, class.
Biography:
Before marrying her husband, Gregg in 1992, Sherri developed her ability to connect with her students by serving in full-time children and youth ministries. These ministries included: Missionary to Mexico, and in the U.S. positions as Children’s Pastor & Youth Pastor.
Sherri worked 14 years in the banking, accounting, and finance industry with Banks, Savings and Loans, a Finance Company, and the Oil & Gas Leasing Industry before staying home to care for and teach Sara and Leah.
As a devoted home school mom and leader for 10 years, the Lord has given Sherri a talent and love for teaching; and to help students and parents alike to learn how to be godly stewards in Education, math, Financing, Banking, Investments, and Economics. Equipping them with the knowledge and tools of how to be a good steward of the blessings God is giving them. Over the last 7 years, Sherri has worked with Dr. Miles Jones and taught all the levels of Super Math, Super Reading, and Matrix Math/Reading. As of the 2008 fall semester, she has returned to teaching with the Super Math Group at “Center for Home Education.”
Sherri has also been working with an educational foundation to teach financial literacy for High School students. She has been asked to work with the educational foundation to develop criteria on which to base a scholarship for a deserving homeschooled student. |
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