Certification Courses
The most comprehensive way to get certified in Personal Finance topics.
Offered for FREE in two formats
Live
- 2-hour interactive virtual sessions led by an instructor
- Structured schedule of one or two sessions per week
- Opportunity to collaborate with other educators
Self-Paced
- 2-hour self-guided modules with recorded lecture
- Flexibility to complete all five modules on your own schedule before the cohort deadline
Additional Perks
NGPF REWARDS
- Achieve the Distinguished Educator Award when you complete six certifications
- Gain 10 NGPF Academy credits per course
Earn CEUs & Graduate Credit
- 39 states accept certification courses as CEUs
- Option to pair with Arizona State University courses for graduate credit
Certification Courses
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Insurance
Monday & Thursday, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM PT
Credit
Investing
Paying for College
Career
Tuesday & Thursday, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM PT
Cryptocurrency Basics
Tuesday & Thursday, 7:00 AM-9:00 AM PT
Banking & Budgeting
Consumer Skills
Advanced Investing
INVITE ONLY: Completion of the Investing Course is a prerequisite. This course emphasizes vocabulary, content knowledge and NGPF resources for in Investing instructional use.
Behavioral Economics
Educators will walk away with real-life examples of these biases along with ideas on how to overcome them. This content knowledge will prove helpful in educators' lives while also increasing their confidence to teach the unit.
Psychology of Money
We will be using Morgan Housel’s Psychology of Money as the foundational text. This course incorporates key concepts from the book and extends them with videos, articles and podcasts.
Taxes
This course will dive deeply into the role of taxes, historically and today, as well as the different types of taxes in the U.S. such as payroll, sales, and property taxes and how the government uses them.
