High School · Grades 10–12 · Ages 15–18

Adult decisions, rehearsed before they are real.

Within a few years of graduation, your students will sign for a credit card, an insurance policy, maybe a loan. The final stage of the program is a rehearsal space for exactly those signatures — run on one discipline throughout: mechanism, never forecasting. We teach how the machine works. Nobody on our pages predicts a market.

A ribbon of golden light curving upward across deep green silk.

The three grades

Debt, markets, and the plan.

G10

Debt, Insurance and Big Goals

Adult decisions ahead · ages 15–16

  • Credit cards and loans, honestly
  • What insurance is for
  • Retirement thinking, decades early
  • Saving for the big things
G11

The Price of Time, Risk and Trust

Bonds, yields and markets · ages 16–17 · 10 sessions × 50 min

  • What a bond really is
  • Why prices and yields move opposite
  • Reading the yield curve
  • Index vs active management
  • Behaviour when markets swing
G12

The Capstone Plan

Ready for adult life · ages 17–18

  • A personal financial plan, built and presented
  • Portfolio and risk tolerance
  • Digital finance and fintech
  • Ethics, impact and legacy
  • “Think Like a Pro”: risk and trading psychology

Flagship unit · Grades 11–12

The Price of Time, Risk and Trust

Ten 50-minute sessions on the market that prices every promise: what a bond is, why its price and its yield move in opposite directions (students derive the rule themselves — it is never just asserted), what the yield curve says about collective expectations, and how a central-bank decision travels, link by link, into a household's loan payment.

Students plot a real, current yield curve by hand, read the spread between government bonds in two countries — explicitly not a ranking of national worth — and sit a 40-minute written capstone: read this week's actual market and explain, in plain language, what it says and what it cannot say. Forecasting forfeits marks. That is the point.

Grade 12 closes the program with the capstone plan — every student builds, defends and presents a personal financial plan — plus Think Like a Pro, a module on risk management and the psychology of professional decision-making: losses, probabilities, fear and greed.

Grades
11–12
Length
10 sessions × 50 min
Format
Teacher guide, session plans, plotting grids, worksheets
Assessment
Formative gates + 40-min written capstone, 20-mark rubric
Method
Derive, don't assert — students earn each rule
Data
Live official market data, read the week of teaching

The rubric awards marks for naming what the data cannot tell you — and removes them for predictions. Intellectual honesty is graded, deliberately.

Put the capstone in front of your economics team.

The sample pack includes session plans and the marking rubrics — the materials speak for themselves.

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