Personal Finance: Budgeting, Banking, Credit & Investing

Personal Finance: Budgeting, Banking, Credit & Investing

Personal Finance: Budgeting, Banking, Credit & Investing

Students learn practical personal finance skills—budgeting, bank accounts, credit scores, checks, and basic investing—through a semester project comparing living costs to expected income.

Personal Finance: Budgeting, Banking, Credit & Investing

Paid once.

Level
Beginner
Ages
13–18
Duration
55 min
Classes
1 / Week
Weeks
8

Class Experience

A semester course introducing key personal finance topics and practical skills. Students study checking vs. savings, paychecks, credit scores and reports, basic investment and saving options, and common expenses. The class includes weekly refreshers, instruction, guided practice, and a multi-week budgeting project culminating in a presentation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Create a personal budget and apply it to a project comparing rent and living costs to income

  • Compare checking and savings account types and basic saving strategies

  • Explain credit scores, how credit can help or hurt, and how to read a credit report

  • Demonstrate how to read a paycheck and write a check

  • Identify basic investment options and saving choices

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Meet your Instructor

Dev Gadkari

Joined August, 2026

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An experienced secondary educator certified to teach grades 7–12, with specific classroom experience delivering financial literacy units. The instructor has taught personal finance for four years as integrated units in social studies courses and completed multiple economics cours…

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