Title: Investing in Yourself (Lesson)
Course: Personal Finance - Earning Income - Sample Syllabus - for Canvas Upload > Section: Career Decisions Lessons

Description: Students perform calculations—with half the class given information to make the task easier—to demonstrate the importance of human capital in increasing a person’s productivity. They then look at the wages for various occupations and consider the role of human capital in explaining the differences in those wages.

- Go to https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/making-personal-finance-decisions-curriculum-unit (Making Personal Finance Decisions Curriculum Unit).
- Use “Lesson 3A: Investing in Yourself” (pdf) and the accompanying PowerPoint slides.