Banking and Finance
Class overview
This course explores how to make good purchasing decisions, how businesses make financial decisions, and how you can take control of your financial future. Personal finance subjects include banking, investing, credit cards, loans, leases and insurance. The economics lessons cover supply and demand, opportunity cost, and the "Economic Way of Thinking".
Whether it will be creating your own business or working within a company, technology will continue to drive how people communicate, create transactions, and inspire markets. We will explore the role technology plays in communications through the Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, and Slides) as well as learning the basics of making a website using Google Sites.
About Ms. Glover
Ms. Glover teaches 7th & 8th grade entrepreneurship, a class about money in real life - personal finance, investing, economics, and technology tools. She earned her BS in Business Administration and Statistics from Drake University, Des Moines, IA. Then, she earned her MBA from ASU and a Master’s of Elementary Education from Grand Canyon University.
Teaching is Ms. Glover’s second career - the first was in business. Now the two are coming together in guiding students as they learn about personal finance and business. Ms. Glover loves it when students are able to connect what they are learning in class with their life outside of school. She is also passionate about the opportunity to help kids start out with an understanding of good money habits. Most importantly, she enjoys seeing students recognize their own potential to build wealth and financial security.
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