Free Workshops for Teachers Focus on Saving and Investing
Personal finance teachers will sharpen their personal finance know-how and their teaching skills at
workshops to be held in 10 Michigan locations in 2007-08.
A free non-commercial teaching guide, The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Education 2020
will be provided to each participant. Funding is provided through a grant from the Investor Protection Trust
and the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services. For information and free registration, contact
Anne Bannister at 734-945-1639 or email at annebannister@pfes.org
Click here for more Information.
Personal finance teachers will sharpen their personal finance know-how and their teaching skills at
workshops to be held in 10 Michigan locations in 2007-08.
A free non-commercial teaching guide, The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Education 2020
will be provided to each participant. Funding is provided through a grant from the Investor Protection Trust
and the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services. For information and free registration, contact
Anne Bannister at 734-945-1639 or email at annebannister@pfes.org
Click here for more Information.
What We Do
PFES offers professional development workshops for teachers and learning opportunities for college
students and adults on topics related to personal finance. We suggest educational resources and provide
information on new initiatives in personal finance education through this PFES website.
We build our educational programs on the following content areas of personal finance that are identified in
the 2007 National Standards in Personal Finance Education, a publication of the national Coalition for
Personal Financial Literacy in Washington, D.C.:
We correlate PFES services with state and national educational standards in business education,
mathematics, family and consumer science, and social studies/economics.
PFES offers professional development workshops for teachers and learning opportunities for college
students and adults on topics related to personal finance. We suggest educational resources and provide
information on new initiatives in personal finance education through this PFES website.
We build our educational programs on the following content areas of personal finance that are identified in
the 2007 National Standards in Personal Finance Education, a publication of the national Coalition for
Personal Financial Literacy in Washington, D.C.:
- Financial Responsibility and Decision Making
- Income and Careers
- Money Management
- Credit and Debt
- Risk Management and Insurance
- Saving and Investing.
We correlate PFES services with state and national educational standards in business education,
mathematics, family and consumer science, and social studies/economics.
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Why Personal Finance is Important
The increasingly complex financial marketplace requires that young people and adults be better educated if
they are to take responsibility for their financial well-being and make informed financial decisions.
The increasingly complex financial marketplace requires that young people and adults be better educated if
they are to take responsibility for their financial well-being and make informed financial decisions.
- The 2006 Jump$tart Survey of Personal Financial Literacy Among High School Students revealed that
only 14 percent feel that stocks are likely to have higher average returns than savings bonds and
savings accounts over an 18 year period.
- University administrators report that they lose more students to credit card debt than to academic failure.
- Studies show that 76% of parents of high school students believe that schools should be required to
teach money management skills.
Our Mission Empowering people through personal finance education |
| What's New |
Personal Finance Education Services, Inc. (PFES) a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization. Copyright 2007. www.pfes.org
The third edition of the National Standards in K-12 Personal
Finance Education.
The 2007 National Standards can be used to shape lesson plans and course
outlines, to evaluate educational materials and to develop educational
requirements. The standards identify what students should know in a variety of
personal finance subject areas, and how much they should know by 4th, 8th and
12th grades.
You can view these standards online at www.jumpstart.org/guide.html and/or
download them as a PDF file. A small supply of additional printed copies is
available upon request from the National Coalition for Personal Financial
Literacy at 202-466-8610.