"Teaching Financial Skills to Last a Lifetime"
"Teaching Financial Skills to Last a Lifetime"
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Money Talks:
presented by The UW Whitewater Center for Economic Education
Friday, October 16th The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club
Format This one-day conference will offer three breakout sessions (12 presentations total) to help bring you up to date on some of today's most important personal finance and economics issues. Gain valuable knowledge that will help you lead classroom discussions and answer your students' questions with confidence. Among those presenting are college professors with expertise in personal financial and economics education, fellow teachers with years of experience teaching these disciplines, and financial industry veterans.
Topics and Speakers Gail L. Hanson Deputy Executive Director for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), Gail is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations, ensuring the adequacy of internal controls and prudent investment processes, identifying strategic issues requiring attention by the agency, coordinating topics for consideration by the Trustees, providing direction for compliance and corporate governance activities. Ms. Hanson began her professional career as an auditor with Price Waterhouse prior to joining Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin, which subsequently merged with Cobalt Corporation. In her last position as Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Office of Cobalt, Gail had responsibility for managing all corporate finance functions, including budgeting, financial reporting, oversight of internal and external auditors, and investment of corporate reserves, defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plan assets Ms. Hanson holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, and a Masters in Business from the University of Chicago. She is a CPA and has her CFA designation. She is a board member of the Council on Institutional Investors and serves on advisory groups for the Public Company Accounting Oversignt Board and the International Accounting Standards Board. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board is an agency responsible for managing assets of the State Pension System. As of 6/30/09, AUM are approximately $68.6 billion. Asset classes include domestic, international and emerging market equities, domestic and global fixed income, TIPS, high yield and emerging market debt and alternatives.
Asset allocation, benchmarking and cost controls are basic to any investment program whether it is conducted by the State of Wisconsin Investment Board on behalf of Wisconsin Retirement System or by an individual investor. This presentation will cover the fundamental building blocks of prudent investing.
Target Audience: Middle School __________________________________________________________________________________________ Kristin M. Legler Peggy Garties Students today face more financial choices than any previous generation. Mastering the skills needed to design a budget, remain creditworthy and make quality financial choices will impact students for life. Educators can help children build good financial habits from an early age. In this workshop, participants will learn exciting ways to effectively teach personal financial literacy. We will view Financial Literacy: TEACH IT!, a professional development video series from ECB, featuring authentic Wisconsin Classrooms. We will look at the lesson plans, teaching tips and downloads available on the Financial Literacy: TEACH IT! Web site and discuss ways to implement these resources into classrooms and professional learning communities. Target Audience: Elem, Middle, High School
The Real Story Of Oil-The New Black Gold This presentation will explain the real story of this crucial natural resource. How much domestic supply do we really have? How much is imported and from what countries? Does the policy of Drill Baby Drill really solve the problem? Is part of the problem a lack of refineries? What really is a barrel of oil and what is produced from each barrel? How is the price of oil really determined? This is a presentation that teachers can use in their classroom the next day. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Mike Butscher This presentation will focus on getting high school age students more involved in economics through the use of simulations and class projects. It will be an active participation seminar where the participants will have an opportunity to try out several activities.
Target Audience: High School
Breakout Session #2 Sara Baker
Target Audience: High School
Dr. Norm Cloutier Target Audience: Middle, High School __________________________________________________________________________________________ Jennifer R. Guenther Target Audience: K-6 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Stock Market Game Teachers Target Audience: Elem, Middle, High School Breakout Session #3
Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Unemployment in the US. A look at the unemployment rate in the United States from how it is calculated to unemployment rates by race, sector, occupation and education level. International comparisons will also be examined. __________________________________________________________________________________________
Jennifer R. Guenther From Books to Bucks: Linking Literature and Money for Young Earners This session will demonstrate ways you can use children's literature, which contains a finance theme, to launch into activities that students will truly enjoy. The connections from “books to bucks” will help you integrate financial literacy standards into other curricular benchmarks. Explore the literature and take some ideas for activities back to your classroom! Target Audience: K-6 __________________________________________________________________________________________
Graduate students in the UW Whitewater Business and Marketing Education program take a course that focuses on Personal Finance and Consumer Education. Students will share units that they have developed and resources they have located as a result of this course. Target Audience: Middle School and Secondary __________________________________________________________________________________________ Bill Duddleston An Almost Complete Explanation of the Credit Crisis. Find out the real story behind the credit crisis in plain and simple terms that your students will be able to understand. Learn the answers to questions such as What is the long term impact of this on the American and World economy? and What changes will have to be made to the financial markets?
Registration
Submit registration form along with a check made payable to Economics Wisconsin. Registration deadline: October 2nd
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Directions and Parking The Madison Concourse Hotel is conveniently located near State Street and the State Capitol. DirectionsGetting here is easy. Simply select your origin from the menu to view detailed directions to The Madison Concourse Hotel. ParkingThe hotel offers an indoor, heated parking garage for a special conference rate of $4.00 for the day. Enter on Dayton St.
For More Information: E-mail econed@economicswisconsin.org
Hotel Reservations: Book online at The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club's web site.
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