This training is about understanding how the modern financial world impacts...
Your Students
Their Families
Their Community
The Planet
Student learning outcomes include…
Curriculum: The Six basic Skills for Financial Empowerment (with Common Core Student Learning Objectives in parentheses)…
About the Consultant: Charles Hatcher is a Cornell-educated Ph.D. in Consumer Economics, and was a professor for 11 years at three large public universities. He taught, conducted research, and developed learning materials in consumer economics, personal finance, and public policy. He has served as a consultant to the financial industry and major philanthropic foundations. He was the Chief Financial Officer for the City of Jackson, Mississippi.
Your Students
Their Families
Their Community
The Planet
Student learning outcomes include…
- A framework for managing their current and future financial resources
- Math and Social Science skills in the context of personal decisions
- An understanding of the historical and structural phenomenon that lead to economic and social inequality
Curriculum: The Six basic Skills for Financial Empowerment (with Common Core Student Learning Objectives in parentheses)…
- Making PLANS: Goals, Financial Statements, Budgets (Pre-Algebra)
- TIME is MONEY: Interest, Inflation, Present and future Value (Proportions, Decimals, Exponents, Finite Series)
- Navigating RISK: Contingencies, Risk Aversion, Insurance (Probability, Expected Value)
- CONSUMER Savvy: Adverse Interest and Caveat Emptor, Consumer Rights and Recourse
- Understanding INEQUALITY: The Distribution of Wealth and Income in New York City, the United States and the World (Populations and Samples, Distributions, Means and Medians, Variance)
- PUBLIC Choices vs. PRIVATE choices: Externalities and Public Goods, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, The Coase Theorem.
About the Consultant: Charles Hatcher is a Cornell-educated Ph.D. in Consumer Economics, and was a professor for 11 years at three large public universities. He taught, conducted research, and developed learning materials in consumer economics, personal finance, and public policy. He has served as a consultant to the financial industry and major philanthropic foundations. He was the Chief Financial Officer for the City of Jackson, Mississippi.
