The Kansas Council on Economic Education (KCEE) is planning 10-week training workshops for teachers who plan to use the Stock Market Game as part of their curricula.
The Summer session is June-August 2006, and sessions in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 are also available.
The Stock Market Game™ is a classroom-based teaching tool designed to promote a better understanding of our economic system while stressing math, social studies and reading as they relate to the SMG. The SMG is a fun and motivating way to teach serious skills and concepts that students will use for the rest of their lives.
In conjunction with a carefully designed curriculum, teams of students in grade regions 4-5, 6-8 and 9-12 compete by investing a hypothetical $100,000 in stocks over a ten-week period in fall or spring sessions. Student transactions are entered via the internet at
http://www.stockmarketgame.org. Teams view their portfolios at any time on-line, which include current holdings, brokerage fees, margin interest and team rankings. The competition is divided into elementary, middle and high school regions in the state. There is also a college/adult region for anyone who wishes to participate outside of the 4-12 classroom.
SMG has been in existence since 1977 and is owned and operated by the Securities Industry Association foundation, The Foundation for Investor Education, previously known as, the Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education. In 1977 Kansas became the second state involved in the SMG and was responsible for processing portfolios. The KSU Center for Economic Education coordinated all SMG activities until the SMG coordinating was moved to the KCEE main office in 2001.
If you would like more information on how to get involved in this program, please contact Angela at
KCEE@wichita.edu or call 316-978-5335.
The importance of the SMG cannot be overstated. It is highly motivational and adaptable to all ability levels. Teachers are encouraged to use an interdisciplinary teaching approach. Along with placing emphasis on learner outcomes, the Stock Market Game™ becomes a timely and invaluable teaching tool and can be used to help meet many educational standards. Advisors have access to correlations to the National Math, Economic & Business standards.
See
the KCEE website for information and seminar registration.
Posted 5/5/2006
