Message from lkrant

[Anonymous]

Hi,
This July I will be taching a new class called Financial Planning (Personal Financial Management) to 11th and 12th grades. As part of the curriculum, I will be teaching interviewing, saving and investing, credit and much more. As I discuss various parts of these subjects, I plan on having the students compare and contrast various country's customs to learn about other people. In the interviewing section, we can discuss by showing pictures of how people dress and what they convey by dressing in that way. The pictures will take various cultural aspects of Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa to compare what is conveyed through dress. We can compare and contrast how Asian people have the highest savings rates and how credit is different around the world.
In these lessons, Asia will be part of the overall discussion of how Americans do things differently and how we can learn from all cultures including Asia. The standards involved reading and understanding various material and using computational skills.

Larry