Title: 👉In Class Lesson: Investing in Yourself (Teacher Only)
Course: Tennessee Personal Finance Sample Syllabus > Section: Standard 2: 🏫Education, Careers & Income

👉In Class Lesson: Investing in Yourself

Lesson Time: 45 minutes

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.