Week Two - Also finished

Week in Review

Week two saw our first test on the basics concepts of Economics on Wednesday. Students did fairly well overall, with the average class score slightly above 85%. We also began our study of personal finance as we move now into the Microeconomics portion of this class. Students began by looking at human capital on Thursday and FICA taxes on Friday. What a fun way to end the week, I know! Here's a good video on human capital if you are unfamiliar with the term.

Upcoming Stuff 

Next week we will have our class's first guest speaker - Gabe Landes of State Farm Insurance. Gabe is a personal friend and insurance agent who has volunteered to speak to my class for the last three years and comes to talk to the students about the different types of insurance coverage they can get. We will also be diving into how to balance your checkbook and the different types of accounts you can open up at a bank, as well as other personal finance topics next week, so students should come away from the class with a good start in understanding how to manage all of the money they will be making in their high-paying STEM field jobs once they graduate from college!

I'm looking forward to next week, and as always please feel free to email me with any questions at arch.grieve@wright.edu.

~Mr. Grieve