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Risk, Responsibility, Reality: How Insurance Works
Network with Teachers Program

Do you know a high school teacher who could use free program materials to supplement their curriculum? How would you like to be the one to offer it to them and boost your networking in your community?

The Insurance Education Institute (IEI) has determined that young people need to understand the principles of risk management and how insurance enables them to manage that process more effectively.

IEI’s goal is to provide high school teachers with a knowledge base that will enable them to teach their students about insurance and sound risk management techniques.

To accomplish that goal, IEI produces teaching materials designed to facilitate the educational process in the classroom.

IEI believes it is critical that a high school teacher have an industry contact to guide and assist them in delivering credible and realistic insights into the insurance process.

The challenge for IEI is to place these teaching materials directly into the hands of teachers. Without an effective distribution system, teachers will either have difficulty teaching insurance principles or choose not to incorporate insurance into the class curriculum.

You can help by participating in the “Network with Teachers” program. You can hand-deliver the new IEI education kit, Risk, Responsibility, Reality: How Insurance Works, to teachers who teach insurance as part of another subject such as business, consumer education, economics, social science, family & consumer science, mathematics or driver education.

Risk, Responsibility, Reality: How Insurance Works is a supplemental learning tool for high school teachers to educate students about insurance and risk management. This program is a DVD with printed supplemental materials designed to explain the basics of insurance, especially as they are relevant to high school students now or in the foreseeable future, and help students apply them to everyday situations that they can relate to. The program also promotes personal responsibility as a route to controlling risk.

How Does “Network with Teachers” Work?

The insurance company in collaboration with an insurance agent or company representative identifies specific teachers within a school system who are teaching insurance and/or business principles.

1. Contact the teacher(s) and offer to become their contact and resource for insurance information.
   
   - Right-click here and select "Save Target As" to download a sample letter
2. Provide the teacher with a free copy of Risk, Responsibility, Reality and any other material the company and teacher feel will be beneficial in the instructional process.
3. Provide IEI with the appropriate contact information for the teacher to be entered into the IEI teacher database.
   
   - Teacher Information Form
4. The teacher will periodically receive updates and information on new resources available from IEI.
5. The teacher will be offered access to the IEI website to acquire current information on insurance industry happenings and new teaching material.
6. The company representative or agent volunteers to provide the teacher with one classroom-period of instruction designed to educate and inform the students on specific aspects of the insurance and distribution process.
   
   IEI has developed a PowerPoint presentation to be used as a guide when speaking to classes.
   
   -Right-click here and select "Save Target As" to download the PowerPoint presentation
   
   -Right-click here and select "Save Target As" to download the Classroom Instruction Outline

Other Options to Network with Teachers:

• The company in collaboration with the agent provides the teacher with a scholarship including travel expenses to an IEI institute.
  
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• The company or agent annually recognizes the teacher(s) for the willingness to educate young people on risk management and the role that personal responsibility plays in the process.

Contact information:

Corene Carson
Administrative Assistant
Insurance Education Foundation
317-876-6046, ext. 1022
info@IEI.org

Click here to order online.

The cost per kit is:

• $25 each for 1-4 copies
• $20 each for 5-14 copies
• $15 each for 15- 24 copies
• $10 each for 25+ copies

We encourage all insurance companies and agents to become involved in the “Network with Teachers” initiative. Teachers need support and teaching materials to enhance their ability to teach young people about risk management.