Hi,

This may be a pretty basic idea, but it worked very well. 

In a refugee program run in the afternoon, we set up a coffee shop for break. The intermediate class was responsible to run it and chose the price, I think it was a quarter. Every day they had to write in the starting balance for each coin denomination and the total and tally the new balances at the end to come up with the income. We finally added purchase cards with one or two dollars total on it. The responsibility for purchases were also up to them, with an instructor verifying the receipts and cash taken out. An instructor also checked the daily tally. Two people had to sign for the balances. The students did a great job with it, eventually accruing enough to purchase a microwave, which they graciously shared with the morning classes.

Alas, in K-12 there's an ingrained aversion to any real money being used this way. It is such a great learning experience. 

Mary Jane Jerde
ESL Instructor

Charlotte Learning Center <charlit at pure.net> wrote:        v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}             st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                     Lawana,
  Hi, my name is Mora Doherty and I am the coordinator for the Charlotte County Adult Learning Center in Virginia. I teach beginning reading and now ESOL. I am also in charge of raising funds. I have not used the idea you have presented. But, since fundraising is an ongoing issue for our center, I am thinking why not let the students become more involved in working on the fundraisers for us, and tie it in to the lessons like you have suggested? 
  Mora 
   
      
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  From: familyliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:familyliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Gail Price
 Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:04 AM
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  The following message is posted on behalf of Lawana Wilson (Lawana at vol.com
   
   
  My name is Lawana Wilson. I have been working with the adult education population for several years in Madison County Kentucky. Doing a fundraiser can be a great teaching tool.  The students can pick a name for their business.  They can do this by having an essay contest, a skill needed for the GED. They can also write essays to decide what fair thing to do with the money. The students may have an event for their family or have a bigger graduation.  In math class the students can do charts and graphs of their progress and profit, etc.  I have been a Family Literacy Coordinator and could see this tie to Family Literacy as well.  
   
   
  Have other subscribers tried fundraisers as a means of instruction? What have been your results? Do you have other ideas to add to Lawana’s?
   
   
   
  Gail J. Price
  Multimedia Specialist
  National  Center for Family Literacy
  325 W. Main Street,   Suite 300
  Louisville,  KY 40202
  gprice at famlit.org
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