jnate on 5/10/2019 1:06:37 PM
Olympus High School
CTE Coordinator
Real World Classroom
The Real-World Classroom is a unique teaching model based on decision-theory learning. The RWC turns any personal finance class into a role-playing game that students, teachers, and parents love. The model creates an environment where students' choices dictate the learning experience. Lessons are continually reinforced as each decision students make impacts the remainder of the course.
www.rwc.school
To be used as curriculum in the General Financial Literacy classes throughout Granite School District
The RWC creates a role-playing game that is always happening in the background of the course called the "Life Lab." This blends the students' real life in-class experience with a virtual adult-life simulation. As students progress through the Life Lab, the decisions they make carry consequences in both their in-class experience and their virtual one.
Every week in an RWC class represents a month in the real-world. Students are paid a virtual salary for participating in class and being enrolled in the course. Every Monday students get paid and make a budget. Every week on Friday their bills are due. Students must manage their resources wisely in order to buy both real and virtual assets in class, create an in-class lifestyle granting them privileges based on their own priorities, invest for the future to build their wealth, and prepare for the unexpected. To demonstrate they have learned from their experiences and grown from their mistakes, students actually buy their simulation grade instead of having it calculated through traditional points & percentages. Now, this makes every other decision carry weight. For example, students don't learn about what it means to be "house poor" because they read an article or did a worksheet; instead, some might actually become house poor if they overspend on something they don't really need.
From Brian Bean:
we do not have trial accounts, but I can take them on a virtual tour if needed and am happy to do so
Brian Bean
891-473-5908
9th Grade
12th Grade
Curriculum / Classroom Educational Technology
Yes
GSD Portal|Ivanti Workspaces
Other assessment data-Please specify
Teachers input "performance review" scores based on the student's academic performance in class. Scores have an impact to the simulated financial situation of the student within the program
Attendance
Student class attendance data
Communications
Conduct
Demographics
Enrollment
Student school enrollment
Parent/Guardian Contact Information
Parent/Guardian ID
Parent/Guardian Name
Schedule
Special Indicator
Student Contact Information
Student Identifiers
Student app username|Student app passwords
Student Name
First and/or Last
Student In App Performance
Student Program Membership
Student Survey Responses
Student Work
Transcript
Transportation
Other
None
Notes
DPA executed 5/22/2019
-Other Assessment data: Teachers input "performance reviews" scores based on the students' academic performance in class. These scores have an impact to the simulated financial situation of the student within the program.
-Student school enrollment
-Student class attendance data
-Student app username and passwords
-Student first and/or last name