within Virtual Virginia’s learning management system at no cost. Virtual Virginia will provide training for division teachers in August.
WORDS FROM RICHMOND… As stated in preface to the Economics and Personal Finance Standards of Learning, “Students need a strong foundation in economics and personal finance to function effectively as consumers, workers, savers, investors, entrepreneurs, and active citizens. The SOL Economics and Personal Finance present economic concepts that help students interpret the daily news, understand how interdependent the world’s economies are, and anticipate how events will impact their lives. Students learn that their own knowledge and skills are their most valuable resource and that investing in education and training improves the likelihood of their future economic success.” What about you? Think you might like to get endorsed to teach the EPF curriculum? Licensed teachers in the following areas with specific endorsements to may be eligible to teach a course in Economics and Personal Finance: ■ Agricultural Education ■ Business and Information Technology ■ Family and Consumer Sciences ■ History and Social Science ■ Marketing ■ Mathematics Check out the Virginia Department of Education website to see which specific endorsement codes are eligible to teach EPF classes. You may be one of them. VT
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