Teacher Workshops

Online Entrepreneurship Institute for Middle & High School Teachers

Entrepreneurship skills are modernized workforce readiness skills for the Innovation & Gig Economy!

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Integrating Entrepreneurship Across CTE Courses & Pathways

Entrepreneurship skills and mindsets are modernized workforce readiness skills for the Innovation & Gig Economy!

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Using The Stock Market Game in Your Classroom- Spring 2025

Are you interested in bringing the Stock Market Game from Sifma into your classroom?

The Spring Game starts trading on February 3rd, 2025, with a registration deadline of February 21, 2025.

Maybe you are interested in joining the game for this semester or even in the future? Join us on January 30th at 7 PM for a quick session about how the game works and how you can use it in your classroom.

After registration, a Zoom link will be sent out the day of the event.

Check out https://stockmarketgame.org/ for more infomation about the game

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Online Personal Finance Institute- Spring 2025

This online, asynchronous institute is designed for those teaching the personal finance portion of high school Economics and Personal Finance.  Over its six weeks, it covers detailed content instruction including banking, credit, consumer rights and responsibilities, insurance, taxes, financial planning and planning for further education after high school.

• Take the W!SE Financial Literacy test and have the opportunity to earn this teacher certification at no charge.
• Teachers who complete the entire institute and pass the W!SE certification will also be recognized as VCEE Certified Personal Finance Educators.
• Participants receive the Virtual Economics Version 5.0 flash drive with over 1,400 activity-based lessons searchable by grade and topic, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. ($164.95 value).
• Each week features guest speakers who are content specialists in their field – including taxes, banking, insurance, and financial planning.

Educators who successfully complete this course with proven mastery will be honored as a VCEE Certified Economic Educator: High School Personal Finance.

This course is conducted on Canvas, thanks to Virtual Virginia.  Directions for how to access the Canvas course will be emailed to you the morning of the first day of the institute.

Sponsors:
Appalachian Power | State Farm | Virginia Bankers Association Education Foundation | Virginia Credit Union | Virginia Lottery

Bank of America | Truist Foundation | Virginia Society of CPAs | Wells Fargo

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Using Literacy in Your Economics/Personal Finance Classroom

Are you looking to use more literacy practice in your economics or personal finance classes? This professional development will explore lessons and strategies to boost literacy usage in your economics and personal finance classes, including economic stories, case studies, and articles.  Additionally participants will learn strategies to improve students’ abilities to interpret, analyze, and create graphs and other data visualizations, fostering critical thinking and decision-making skills.

This session will be offered through Zoom and the link will be sent out the day of the event.

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Everyday Wonders

This one-hour professional development will feature “Everyday Wonders,” a new resource showing the genius of human innovation hidden in everyday life.

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