TAPping into Teaching
Financial Literacy 101
Giving Teens the Business
Brain Pop!
Schocking Revelations
100

Building relationship early and often is considered this type of step in managing student behaviors

What is proactive or preventative? 

100

This act, created after 9/11 terrorist attack, ensures that banks perform their due diligence by confirming your identity before opening an account.

What is the Patriot Act?

100

George's expertise and college major in this area of business gives him an advantage while managing his business classroom. 

What is (global) supply chain management?

100

New learning is solidified in the brain during this overnight process. Adolescents need 9 hours of it.

What is sleep?

100

Similar to the expectations for gym teachers, there is no PRAXIS II test for this endorsement, so teachers like George completely get out of taking it.

What is business education?  

200

'Evaluate' and 'Create' are the two most complex levels thinking in this guy’s taxonomy.

Who is Bloom? 

200

Salary is an example of this type of income.

What is earned? 

200

Dental insurance is an example of this type of deduction on a pay stub.

What is voluntary?

200

The capacity for this is 7-10 items.  Any more and any student is sure to forget. 

What is (working) memory?

200

175 / 365. 

What is the number of days in a Vermont school year?

300

Holistic, single-point, and analytic are three types.

What are rubrics? 

300

Refers to the top salary you as an individual can possibly earn based on your current education, skills and experience.

What is earning potential?

300

The type of enterprise that is owned and run by one person and in which there is no legal distinction between the owner and the business entity.

What is a sole proprietorship? 

300

Just 12-15 minutes is the appropriate time level for this type of instruction in grades 9-12.


What is direct (instruction)?

300

A whopping $56,264.

What is the average Vermont (public school) teacher salary?

400

Although not often observed in teens, this idea refers to the belief that basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work.

What is growth mindset?

400

The “T” in SMART financial goals.

What is time-bound?

400

SCORE, a government organization that can help your get started with a new business, is an acronym for this.

What is The Society for Retired Executives?

400

This unfortunate attitude, often characterized by quitting, giving up, or complete laziness, is more common in middle and high school students than in elementary students.

What is learned helplessness?

400

George may want to teach his financial literacy students that the average one of these for people age 18-29 years old is only 652.

What is credit score?

500

“No Opt Out”, “Right is Right” ,and “Without Apology” are all techniques George has adopted from this classroom management manifesto.

What is Teach Like A Champion

500

Death, Caution, Gut, Courage, and Enemy

What are the 5 forces that define our decisions?

500

Video Clue!

What are Incoterms? 

500

Recessed deep in the temporal lobe, at the base of the hippocampus, this structure mediates uncertainty, danger and intense emotions.

What is the amygdala? 

500

The number of standards that George must prove proficiency in to be approved for a Vermont state teaching license.

What is 10?