Education in Training students teach money lesson to elementary students
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Education in Training Career Tech Education Lab student, Kelsey McLaughlin, and Coosa County Schools Career Coach Keslie Garrett presented to Central Elementary second graders about one of the biggest topics in the workforce, money.
The presentation introduced the young students to the concept of wages by using various sizes, shapes and colors of buttons to represent different denominations of money. Each student was instructed to take at least one button from the bin, but had the option to take as many or few as they wanted.
Students could take as many or as few as they believed they were worth, while being mindful that each student had to get at least one button.
This was a fun way to see how confident some students are, how mindful and considerate of others students are and a way to make sure that there were different categories of wage earners for the conversation.
Once everyone had their buttons, students were asked to tally up their earnings based on the legend provided on the smartboard. Different colors represented different bills; for example pink buttons represented two dollars and glitter buttons ten dollars.
After each student had their total amount of earnings, we went around the room to identify the top earners. Once we identified our top earners, we had a group discussion on what could make them special.
Common characteristics included good attendance, good work ethic, completing tasks, and being nice to each other. While these are all good qualities of a worker, it also opened the conversation up on how to earn more in wages by doing more than assigned, taking initiative, and sometimes, being in the right place at the right time.
Kelsey and other CTE Lab students in the Educators in Training program, along with Mrs. Garrett and other CCCTC faculty and staff, will continue to visit with the elementary and middle school students to start talking with students about the future of workforce and pathways to college and careers, and this was a great addition to our sequence of discussions.
If you remember from earlier in the year, the kindergarten students met the M&M man, Mr. Yellow, and CTE Lab student Tara Halsey when they discussed uniforms and personal protective equipment associated with various professions. This month third grade students will be taught a lesson about how Santa got his job and will work on creating their first resume.
Make sure to follow us at Central Coosa Career Tech to see all the fun ways our young students are learning about careers, and see how our future educators in Mrs. Worley’s Educators in Training program are being trained to present and teach as they gain experience for their future careers in education.
Thank you, Coosa County Schools Career Coach Keslie Garrett, for sharing the information on the educational training lesson.
