Helping Teachers Teach Personal Finance and Financial Skills
Making Financial Literacy Click for Your Students
Teaching personal finance is more crucial than ever. You’re not just covering curriculum; you’re equipping students with essential life skills. But finding engaging activities, fresh approaches, and reliable resources that resonate in your classroom can be a constant challenge. This blog is your dedicated space for practical strategies, proven lesson ideas, and shared insights to help you confidently guide your students toward a brighter financial future.
Your Financial Literacy Toolkit: Resources & Planning
Personal Finance Standards
Wondering what topics to include in your personal finance course? We break down the essential concepts covered by National and State standards, helping you build a comprehensive and effective curriculum.
Flexible Course Outlines
Get a head start on planning! Find adaptable sample outlines designed for various course lengths (3, 9, and 18 weeks), along with practical tips and deep dives into teaching specific financial concepts.
Engaging Budget & Stock Games
Bring learning to life with hands-on simulations! Through our partnership with PersonalFinanceLab, discover powerful online budgeting and stock market games perfect for classroom engagement, homeschool settings, and after-school clubs.
Meet Karsten Walker: Financial Education Strategist
Karsten Walker, a seasoned financial educator and strategist, with over two decades of experience in teaching, developing, and implementing financial literacy programs for various audiences. Karsten has helped with Utah’s Financial Literacy program starting in the 2004-2005 school year. Karsten has a passion for Financial Education and has presented or been on panels about Financial Education at various conference including NAST -National Association of State Treasurers, NEFE-National Endowment for Financial Education, and the GFLEC – Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center, Cherry Tree Institute as well as the Annual Conference on Financial Education (ACFE).
Karsten has an amazing passion for empowering individuals through financial knowledge.
Karsten graduated from Utah State University with a bachelors in Business and Marketing Education. He earned a Masters of Economic and Entrepreneurship Education from the University of Delaware and did some graduate courses in Education Leadership and Curriculum at Utah State University for 3 years.
Mr. Walker taught high school concurrent Business and Marketing Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses in the Alpine School District as well as the Utah Financial Literacy course. He was the Business, Marketing, and Financial Literacy CTE Program Area Specialist for the Alpine School District for 6 years.
Karsten was a lead author and researcher on the State of Utah Performance Audit for the Utah General Financial Literacy course.
That report can be found here.
Karsten is the author behind TeachPersonalFinance.com, drawing on his decades of experience to support educators like you.