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Aloha to the Reality Store

Aloha to the Reality Store. Or, is life really a picnic?. Envision your life. Do you want to be a chef?. Or a butler?. In the words of a student,.

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Aloha to the Reality Store

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  1. Aloha to theReality Store

  2. Or, is life really a picnic?

  3. Envision your life

  4. Do you want to be a chef? Or a butler?

  5. In the words of a student, “The Reality Store is where you calculate what you will earn with a certain education and see how you end up financially. This provides a fun and enjoyable way to learn about the financial world. "

  6. Students will apply the decision-making, problem-solving, and management processes to develop a spending plan to meet established goals with a degree of accuracy.

  7. The goal is to develop the knowledge and skills needed to use these processes in practical, real-life situations involving the use of money.

  8. The Reality Store is a place where students pay bills after planning their budget for a level of income based on a predetermined level of education.

  9. Guiding Questions:

  10. How does an adult make decisions when formulating a spending plan?

  11. "It helped me understand how hard it is to be grown up and have to pay for everything." (Christine)

  12. What is the relationship between education and employment, and one’s quality of life?

  13. Why is mathematics important in everyday life?

  14. “I realized that one little mathematical error can make a big difference in a checkbook." (Kristie)

  15. Skills and knowledge a student must acquire during the learning experience in order to be successful:

  16. Identify individual lifestyle needs and wants

  17.  Identify possible educational and career choice with corresponding income

  18.  Formulate a personal spending plan for age 28

  19. Make decisions; solve problems

  20.  Add and subtract with or without a calculator  Write checks properly  Spend and save money wisely

  21.  Reason, evaluate, and communicate about personal spending choices

  22.  Identify their own abilities and interests as possible guides to career choice

  23. “What do we want a graduate of our school to look like?”Shawn Suzuki O r

  24. What do we need to do to implement this program? → → → → → Involve staff in planning the event Involve community members Establish a timeline Establish an operational procedure Develop an assessment plan

  25. Overview

  26. STANDARDS AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ► FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES (Spending Plan) ► CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (Education + Employment = Quality of Life) ► MATHEMATICS AND SOCIAL STUDIES (Consumer Math and Economics) ► ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (Reflection)

  27. There are three parts to the Reality Store

  28. I. Preparation: Activities designed to help students start thinking about their futures and the type of lifestyle they would like to have when they're in their mid-twenties.

  29. Let's pretend you are 28 years old. What would be your answers to these questions? Are you married or single? If you are married, does your spouse work? How many children do you have? What are their ages? How many are under 5 and in day care?

  30. Do you have a new or a used car? Did you go to college? Or…do you rent or own your dwelling?

  31. II. Reality Store visit

  32. III. Follow-up discussions As students finish their trip through the Reality Store, they complete an evaluation form which asks them to reflect on the activity. Follow up discussions encourage students to share their thoughts and reactions and compare their experiences in the Reality Store with how they envisioned their future.

  33. Each teen is given a fake checkbook register with one month's salary on deposit, plus a $500 savings account to spend or save

  34. "When I first started to do the checkbook thing, I thought it was a waste if time, but once I learned how hard it was to do all that stuff, I realized why they were teaching it." (Jerry) "I learned I need to take care of bills before I spend all my money on luxuries." (Shane)

  35. A roll of the dice decides the marital status of each student and the number of children.

  36. Participants are given a monthly salary for an occupation of their choosing.

  37. They visit stations and deduct expenses based on the choices they make.

  38. "The thing that surprised me the most was all of the insurance." (Mario) "My daughter cost me a tons of money, my hand hurts from writing checks, and my budget is not balancing." (Danielle)

  39. How do we assess student work? √ √ √ Rubric Reflection essay Properly submitted forms: Profile, Budget Plan, Check, Evaluation, Essay

  40. Rubric • EXPERIENCED REALITY • PRETENDED REALITY • UNREALISTIC 1 OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY

  41. Dimensions of Rubric * Decision Making * Mathematics * Check Writing * Filling out forms * Evaluation * Reflection

  42. Reality StoreReflection Questions ♠ Did your budget give you the quality of life you wanted? ♠ Would you make different choices if you visited again? ♠ What did you learn about career choices that you will use in planning your future?

  43. Properly Submitted Forms

  44. "An important factor in applying for a job is education."(Alexis)

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