Wednesday, October 5, 2016

TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOL DECA group focuses on teaching POHI students basic concepts

Here are some pictures from the Truman High School DECA group’s latest project.

Three marketing students will be competing this year for DECA in the financial literacy category. As part of their project they were required to choose a target market to help educate on personal finance.

Truman’s groups primary target market was the POHI program. The teachers brought their students down to the DECA classroom every day for a week and DECA students Starr Lewis, Caroline Vaughn and Junaid Syed put together lessons and taught them the basic concepts of debit, credit, savings, budget and counting money.

They put together creative and engaging assignments while also using technology and guest speakers from Citizen Bank. 

The group also designed T-shirts to wear during the lessons so that the students would know that they were the ones to ask for help and they also gave shirts away as rewards for those who volunteered and participated.

The lessons went over so well and their POHI students showed growth from their pre-tests to their post-tests they decided to open it up to a secondary target market. They signed up math teachers who have freshman classes and also did their lessons with them. Overall they did their lessons for a total of 278 students. 

Starr, Junaid and Caroline were very professional and prepared as they taught their lessons. DECA Instructor Carly Lundgren-Barnard says that she is very proud of them, as well as the Truman students who attended the lessons. They showed respect for their peers and they were brave to get up in front of the room and become the teacher and presenter. 

This group will write a paper on their experience and put together a presentation for a judge and compete at the district level, and Lundgren-Barnard is confident that they will advance to state and national competition levels.

They will also be coming to the Board of Education meeting on December 12 with their visual aids to make a presentation. 


Remember, in DECA "We mean business."









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