MADISON – Registrations are still being accepted for the National Institute of Financial and Economic Literacy (NIFEL) educator training at Edgewood College in Madison this summer. Three separate sessions of the NIFEL training are scheduled for educators who want to broaden their skills to teach personal finance in their schools or communities.
The three sessions are:
• June 20-24 – Investor Education, Economics and Insurance.
• June 27-July 1 – Paychecks, Financial Contracts and Entrepreneurship.
• July 6-8 – Credit and Money.
All sessions are held at Edgewood College. Tuition is $350 per week for program registration only, or $875 for program registration plus three graduate credits. Meals and housing are included in the tuition. More information about the NIFEL training and a link to the registration form can be found at http://www.edgewood.edu/NIFEL. Registrants may attend one session or enroll in multiple sessions.
The July 6-8 session on Credit and Money will include a module on the importance of career planning as it relates to student loan debt. The instructor for that module will be Cheryl Weiss, Student Debt Specialist in the Department of Financial Institutions’ (DFI) Office of Financial Literacy. Weiss will discuss how to help prepare students as well as parents for decisions related to student loans for post-secondary education. She also will discuss DFI’s overall plan for preventative outreach and resources to help guide students and parents in preparing for student debt as well as what types of loans are available.
NIFEL is now in its 16th year of training educators. Since its inception in 2001, 869 educators from 16 states and Puerto Rico have been trained. During the 2015-16 school year, more than 45,000 Wisconsin students were taught personal finance by NIFEL-trained educators.
