Personal Finance Illustrated®
Course Resources
Instructor Facing Assets
📔 Instructor Guides: Available for every Unit in the course, think of it as home base for instructors. Here you’ll find access to all pertinent documents for each Unit including the Lesson Plan Documents, along with a Key Points Outline, and an Instructor Training video to help prepare you to help your students.
📝 Lesson Plan Documents have been created for every single lesson, and are the instructor’s roadmap through the entire course. What to use, when to use it, how long will it take, and what to do to prepare. Easily assess and determine what you are able to cover in a semester, and customize utilization to meet your particular needs.
🎥 Instructor Training: Each Unit has it’s own unique focus, and we’ve included these Instructor Training videos specifically to help coach instructors through the best ways to deliver that content to their students. You don’t need to be an expert, we’ll make sure you’re prepared for each and every step along the way.
📝 Course Documents: With an instructor editable syllabus covering course description, objectives, and requirements to detailed assignment rubrics, Blooms Taxonomy Matrix, vocabulary, and online book all included we’ve got you covered with everything you’ll need.
📚 Learning Outcomes: designed using Bloom’s Taxonomy
Learning Resources For Students
🎓 “Professor PEM” weighs in with words of wisdom for each lesson for both students as well as instructors, and helps to solidify and reinforce key points throughout the course.
📚 In This Lesson clearly defines the requirements to complete each lesson, as well as the intended purpose of every activity.
🎥 Video Lesson: Each lesson is accompanied by a video in which the author and developer of The Personal Economic Model® teaches the lesson, and explains key points in detail. It can be used in conjunction with, or in lieu of additional lecture from an instructor.
📈 Interactive Resources provide hands on access to proprietary financial calculators and storyboards pertinent to each lesson. Manipulate inputs, see the impact, connect with the results, and master real world application.
🎥 Resource Tutorials: Watch in depth training videos from the developer and course author for each of the Interactive Resources. No guess work involved; we teach you everything you need to know.
📊 PowerPoint: Carefully crafted storyboards for each lesson developed by PEM LIFE instructors, tested in classrooms, ready for use.
📋 Concept Quizzes bring emphasis to helping students learn the core concepts they will need to understand and utilize in order to find financial success in the real world.
📋 Vocabulary Quizzes bring emphasis to helping students learn the terminology required to speak the language of finance in real world situations.
? Question Bank features hundreds of questions along with examples and exercises designed to foster and test knowledge retention.
📝 Writing Assignments engage students to apply what they have learned to explain key concepts in their own words, and connect with the material on a deeper level.
🗣 Group Discussion Forums allow students to share their own viewpoints on topics as well as evaluate and respond to the viewpoints of their peers.
✏️ Reflection Posts require intimate introspection designed to challenge the student’s own internal bias toward topics.
📊 Strengths Profile: A personalized, individual assessment of each student’s natural tendencies toward the way they solve problems, process information, manage change, and implement strategies. Knowing, understanding, and leveraging your own innate strengths can prove to be invaluable to your financial success.
📚 Classroom Activities: Utilize student handouts, exercises, and classroom discussions already mapped out for use with the included lesson plans. Even enjoy friendly team competition with classmates in a game designed to reinforce real world application of TVM concepts.