SIFE teaches financial education in Tahlequah

During the 11 last years, Drury SIFE had travelled in Laredo, in Texas, with college of teaching and students of college of the lessons to improve their arrangement of finances. This year, SIFE prolonged this project in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Recently, the state of Oklahoma passed the legislation, including 14 mandates, which require students to receive financial education. The educational mandates include matters such as borrowing and lending, to play, writing of summary, to invest, stockmarket, and to make application form even for a work.

Twelve members of SIFE worked on this project to develop plans of lesson on these mandates for students with the college of Sequoyah in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.�

Always let us hear We that the children are the future, Dutch of Russell, member of the team of the project of Tahlequah, said. We help the construction which future by this and other projects.

On the whole, the team composed 12 plans of lesson, during 85 minutes the part, to teach with students the foundations of the financial instruction.

It is important that the students know how to request a loan, or to check them, of reputation of solvency Dutch said. We helped these students to learn some from the tools which they will have need for the remainder for their lives.

The final day of the project, the members of SIFE simulated a fictitious market, allowing students to buy and sell companies, commercial stocks, and to act one on the other on a financial market.�

Enfants became really excited while they saw their stock exchanges of actions going upwards or to the bottom, and precipitated to make the trade that, Dutch said.

the chief, said. �tudiants really learned much and thanked us newspaper for making what can be concepts difficult to include/understand, easy to learn.

With hope, the project of Tahlequah will be an annual event which will continue during years to come.

Will know that nothing is impossible, Stremme said. If there is something which you want to do, or to achieve, put 't hesitate to test it. If it fails, thus what, at least taught you something.