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Essential Understandings: Adult Roles

Adult Roles and Responsibilities/Financial Literacy

This is a full year class that teaches students necessary skills for real life situations that they will encounter in their future.
The following subjects will be covered...

  • Positive and negative development of self-concept and self-esteem
  • Values and how they impact relationships
  • Financial choices and the impact they have on relationships
  • Steps to achieve long and short term goals
  • The decision-making process (identify problem, brainstorm possible solutions, explore and evaluate, make a decision, act on decision, evaluate)
  • The difference between needs and wants
  • The impact of education on income potential
  • Educational requirements associated with career choices
  • Designing and maintaining a budget
  • Consumer protection laws
  • Learn and practice communication skills
  • The purposes and cost of dating
  • Violence cycle and characteristics of abusers
  • The importance of the engagement period in preparing for a healthy marriage
  • The costs and rewards of using credit
  • The value of financial planning
  • Characteristics and strategies used to develop healthy family relationships
  • The importance of the different types of insurance