Introducing the New 2009 Courses

1. Introducing the New 2009 Courses Academy of Finance

2. Help us help you implement the new NAF courses • The implementation forms will be our guides. Please start with: • Who are you? • What is your role? • How can we contact you? • Which NAF courses are currently taught in your academy?

3. NAF has released 15 new courses in the past two years

4. There are nine more new courses for 2009-2010

5. There are now eleven AOF courses

6. Industry partners fund and validate the courses • Sustainable • Tourism • Advanced Finance • Financial Services • Business Economics • Financial Planning • Ethics in Business • Digital Video • Production • NAF Collaboration • Network • Insurance • Customer Service • AOE Integrated Units • Introduction • to Programming

7. All courses are built with common elements • Correlated to National Standards • Rigor and Relevancy • Project Based Learning • Literacy Strategies • 21st Century Skills - core academics - life & career skills - learning & innovation - information, media & technology skills • Enrichment and Cross-Curricular Integration • Reviewed by Industry Subject Matter Experts

8. NAF course features lead to many benefits • Turnkey or modular use • Annual updates and improvements • Materials in Word format • Career skills identified in every lesson • Literacy activities integrated throughout • Specific activities for Advisory Board involvement • Most important: Engaging approach!

9. Principles of Finance • Introduces the concepts, tools, and institutions of finance. Is a foundation course for AOF. Provides the basics of financial literacy. • Culminating Project: Educating families and students about financial literacy? Students present their research findings at a trade show exhibition with NAF Advisory Board members will be invited.

10. Entrepreneurship • Students explore the steps in starting a business, including financing, forms of organization, and business plans. They study taxation, licensing, and liabilities, financial risks and ethics. Students identify risks and returns of entrepreneurship. • Culminating Project: Creating a business plan for a new enterprises.

11. Insurance • Introduces the insurance industry and the role it plays in financial services and society. This course covers the most common types of insurance. Students deepen their understanding and explore new insurance concepts. • Culminating Project: Students work as a consultant team to develop a commercial insurance needs assessment for a major company.

12. Managerial Accounting • Introduces the fundamentals of management accounting, including manufacturing and cost accounting, budgeting, accounting for managerial decision-making, and financial statement analysis. Students use accounting information for internal decision-making and planning and control. • Culminating Project: Creating a business plan for a new enterprises.

13. Business in a Global Economy • Students learn how and why businesses expand their operations into other countries, including the unique challenges and opportunities facing firms doing business internationally. • Culminating Project: Students work in “strategy teams” as professionals to develop a global market entry strategy for an auto manufacturing company that currently sells only in the US market.

14. Let’s Think, Pair, Share • What common elements do you see in the structure of these courses? • How do these courses support a range of thinking skills? • How can these courses support the direction of your Academy?

15. The courses are just a part of Curriculum & Academics • NAF Student Certification • We are teaming with West Ed to develop third-party validated certification in AOF, AOHT, and AOIT • Certificate will require students to complete four NAF courses and an internship • The assessment system underlying certification will include: • > End-of-course exams • > Course culminating project evaluations • > Internship evaluation

16. Articulation Agreements are also being developed We are already in discussion with ~60 colleges and universities! • Benefits to Academies • College credits, advanced placement, or waiving of prerequisite courses for NAF students • Preferential admissions consideration for NAF students • University interaction for NAF students • Professional Development opportunities for NAF teachers

17. Consider becoming a Curriculum Fellow to pilot new course • Receive hands-on training in NAF pedagogy • Meet in-person at different locations around the country (all expenses paid!) • Provide complete and detailed course feedback to the editorial team • Present at the Summer Institute For more info: laura@naf.org

18. There are other important ways to help activate the curriculum • Come to the Fellows’ & Leaders’ presentations • Sign up for the NAF Collaboration Network • Make use of the new Online Curriculum Library

19. The online library has been remodeled!

20. Please complete your Curriculum Implementation Form What is your interest in these courses? What will it take to implement these courses in your Academy/District? What do you need from us?