Show 48 - Using Project Base Learning to LEARN and teacher finance with Vince Shorb
In this episode, I talk with Vince Shorb from the National Financial Education Council about how you can use Project Based Learning to not only teach personal finance, but learn it alongside your students.
8/28/20241 min read
Does the idea of teaching personal finance scare you since you still haven’t figured out your own finances? If that sounds like you, then this episode with Vince Shorb, founder of the National Financial Education Council, will really help. He shares about the power of project-based learning in teaching personal finance both as a way to educate the teacher AND teach the students at the same time. And what’s even better is that the NFEC has resources to help you!
Key Ideas
Project-based learning allows you to learn alongside your students without feeling like you’re supposed to know everything.
As you do the projects with your students your own financial literacy will grow.
Your students will be engaged in class with project-based learning because it is real life, not just a project.
NFEC has many free resources to help you get started!