Adopt

Adopt a high school in your neighborhood! The goal of the Adopt a School program is to have Wisconsin accounting firms and companies select and adopt a school, develop a relationship with a teacher and school and become a resource for them. As a resource, the firm can provide teachers with real life answers and experiences to help them while teaching.
Adopt a School: Sign-up to Adopt a School Report forms Activity ideas Resources Questions??	Ideas Here are some ideas on how relationships with teachers and schools can be formed. The ideas came from a survey to high school accounting teacher. Speak to a high school class about accounting careers. Be a guest teacher for the class period and teach a lesson. Present a case study on accounting. Present a case study on ethics. Bring students to your firm for a field trip. Talk about your clients. What do your employees do? What software and computer programs are used? What office equipment is used? Bring students to your firm for job shadows. Show them computer programs used, let them sit in on a client meeting, have them talk to young CPAs about the transition from college to your firm, be specific about job duties. Host a booth at a high school career fair. Host a pizza party at your firm over the lunch hour. Have a CPA speak about the variety of careers in accounting. Bring a high school teacher to your firm for a weeklong internship in the summer. Participate in Take A Teacher to Work Day. Have your firm’s marketing director help your local teacher “market” the accounting class to students, parents & guidance counselors. Be a CPA e-mail pen pal for accounting students. Write a case study for teachers to use in current and future classes. Talk with the school’s guidance counselor about the importance of accounting and job opportunities. Be an FBLA judge. Help an FBLA group prepare for a competitive event. Be available to teachers when they have questions. Show a class how to interpret a financial statement. Review the class text book and offer real-life examples for one of the lessons. Show the class how to play an AICPA online computer game such as the forensic accounting game, “Catch me if you can.” return to top Resources! Resources! Resources! The following is a list of resources for CPA use with Wisconsin teachers and students. We are always looking for new resources. If you have developed your own and would like to share them with us, please contact mary@wicpa.org. High school speaking If you plan to speak to a high school class, please see visit our high school speaking page to print our speaker orientation packet. The packet includes case studies to use in class, ice breakers and tips for talking with students. AICPA Career Web sites Visit the AICPA’s Accounting Education Center, http://ceae.aicpa.org, for case studies, career awareness information and education curriculum and development. The CPA Financial Literacy Resource Center, http://www.aicpa.org/financialliteracy/life_cycle_resources.asp, has information, including PowerPoint presentations, for use with students beginning in kindergarten through college. Take a Teacher to Work Have your local teacher visit your firm for a day or even a week! Download a sample schedule of activities that you could do with your teacher. Internship for a day Internship for a week Web site links For a list of Web sites with information applicable to high school students and their teachers, click here. Case studies Talk to your teacher about what the students are covering in class. Find case studies from common high school accounting text books, revise them to show real-world examples and present them to the class. Information from you will mean more to them than if it came from their teacher! Glencoe: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/accounting/5th/index.html South-Western: http://accountingxtra.swlearning.com/general/default.html Videos to support class activities Whether the students are at your firm for a field trip or you are visiting their classroom, show a video clip from, *Business Building Blocks, developed for PBS by the AICPA. Business Building Blocks* follows a student as he contemplates life after high school. He learns about the various career paths available to CPAs. Download clips on topics such as business plans, budgeting and forecasting and forensic accounting. Help your adopted teacher market accounting to students Many Wisconsin teachers struggle with recruiting students to their elective accounting classes. Click here for ideas and resources on how you can personalize marketing strategies for your local teacher and community. Learn how to reach students, parents and guidance counselors and attract more students to high school accounting classes. FBLA Ask your adopted teacher if they are involved in Future Business Leaders of America What can you do to help them with their involvement? Help them prepare for a competition or be a judge. Visit FBLA for more information return to top
Please contact mary@wicpa.org to find out more about the Adopt a School program.
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