Instructional Resources for Banking

Here are some ideas from Liz Dettling of Southwest.  Thanks Liz! 
1.  Wells Fargo has an online banking tutorial that you can use. If you have a computer/room projector hookup you can project the website on the screen and go through it with the students:
https://www.wellsfargo.com/tour/overview
2. Another good website–this one I’ve used for reading credit card statements. [...]

Course Descriptions Not Previously Posted

Here are the remaining course descriptions posted for you without comment.  The first is People and Places.   Others not previously posted are Curriculum Based Vocational Training (CBVT), On the Job Training (OJT), and  Personal Recreation and Leisure.  

Adult and Family Living Resource

Recently, I stumbled across an incredible resource to use in the Adult and Family living course. Under the unit on healthy relationships, you can find a video resource called Toxic Relationships.
First, go to Online Resources on the MPS staff page. Talk with your media specialist about getting logged onto United Streaming. At [...]

Financial Concepts Assignments

If you are teaching Financial Concepts, here are a few assignments to consider using.When teaching credit card literacy, I used several old credit card bills of mine for students to use as they practiced reading the bill.  The point was to understand different lay-outs of various bills.  All personal information was blacked-out and the names ANN, [...]

Adult and Family Living I-II

In the following link, you can download a course description and curriculum map to Adult and Family Living I-II.
The course was designed as 2 semester-long courses, but could easily be taught as a yearlong course since the course descriptions reflects four quarters of content.
The first semester stresses the acquisition of skills for setting appropriate life goals, [...]

Daily Living Strategies

In the following link, you can download a course description and curriculum map to Daily Living Strategies
This course focuses on functional math skills that may require repeated exposure and practice across multiple grades in order to master the critical skills covered in the course. Students will develop an understanding of when to apply the rules of [...]

Independent Living Course Description

In the following link, you can download a course description and curriculum map to Independent Living.
This course will cover critical skills students need in order to transition into independent or semi-independent living arrangements as adults. The course will teach skills required for personal health, self-care, and first-aid. It will also lead to skill in [...]

Financial Concepts Course Description

In the following link, you can download a course description and curriculum map to Financial Concepts.
This semester long course exposes students to the basics of money management skills, particularly concepts in understanding your paycheck, creating and following budgets, banking, interest, record keeping, taxes and financial organization skills. The course will include instruction [...]

Financial Concepts Resource

It is my hope that when you find a resource that helps you teach a course in the Life Skills program, you use this website to share that resource with others. In that spirit, I came across the following website that may help you teach the “Financial Concepts” course.
The website is Jumpstart.org.
This site contains [...]

On Your Mark, Get Set, Go

On March 3, 2006, Life Skills teachers from the entire MPLS district came together to begin a concerted effort to develop a districtwide transition based curriculum. The efforts begun that day led us in the right direction, but were merely a start to this critical effort. This website is an effort to allow Life Skills [...]