Children Programmes
Help your children get financial education:
Are you a school or a community centre and you are looking for ways to teach your students about money matters?
Or as a parent, are you convinced that financial education is a life skill? Would you like your school or community centre to offer financial literacy courses?
We can help three ways:
- by running a pilot course in your school or community centre,
- by training your teachers to teach financial education to children and teens,
- by creating with you a tailor-made financial education programme for your school or community centre
Click and discover:
- what makes our programmes special
- our curriculum and courses
- our partners and where you can find our courses
- how to help your teachers teach financial literacy
- how to integrate financial education in your school curriculum
- what our students say about our programmes
Are you ready to get things moving? Contact us.
Learning the basics step by step:
programmes focus on four basics: spending, earning, saving and planning. What makes our financial literacy curriculum special? Our programmes are
- age-specific: why different courses for different ages?
- maturity and maths levels are different at each age,
- some challenges are different too (giving change at 6 years old, peer pressure in pre-teen and teenage years)
- these notions (such as needs and wants or the reasons for saving) are so fundamental, they need review again and again!
- based on a long term learning:
- our standard programmes fit in a school term,
- we offer different level courses for each age range: introduction and follow-ups, so that you can build a consistent and evolutive curriculum year after year,
- As financial education has a lot to do with behaviour, it takes time to learn,
- a long term curriculum is the best way to make a difference and enable you to measure the real impact.
- Appealing and very practical:
- each course contains all kinds of activities (hands-on, art, calculation, brainstorming, singing, stories, cartoons...) to engage different kinds of learners and maximise what children will remember and put in practice,
- they focus on what children can immediately apply,
- they integrate the three levels of financial education: knowledge, skills and behaviour: children don't learn to get rich... but instead they acquire the knowledge to make choices and understand their financial consequences.
- Flexible:
- each programme consists of modules which can be taught separately according to the available time,
- they can fit in different courses: either as a subject itself, or in English, social studies, maths or even foreign language lessons: our courses exist in English, Chinese, French and end of 2009 in Spanish. For other languages, please contact us.
Learn more on our courses:
Download our detailled curriculum
Check some of our courses:
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The Beach Party™: for 5-6 year olds
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Adventures at Money Park™: for 6-8 year olds
- A Trip to the Money Moon™: for 9-11 year olds
- Budgeting my holiday™: for 9-11 year olds
- A Month without Parents™: for 12-15 year olds
- Money Matters for Young Adults: for 16 and above
Become a partner
Our children's courses are currently taught in:
- Hong Kong through our distributor
- the Philippines through our partnership with Pioneer Foundation
- USA (Minnesota) : in Edina Community Center (MN) and Eden Prairie Community Center (MN) in English and in Spanish (June-August 2009)
Would you like to organise a course in your school, center or become one of our partners/distributors? Contact us.
Help your teachers teach financial education:
Teaching financial literacy can be very challenging for teachers:
- There is no standard curriculum
- Available training material is scarce
- They may not feel confident in teaching a topic they may not master
- They may not have enough time or resources to build a term, semester or year long course.
So what can you do? Depending on your objectives, you can
- enrol your teachers to our "Teachers teach money" workshop,
- work with us to design your own school financial education programme,
- Let your teachers join our online courses to consolidate their financial knowledge and become confident in teaching financial literacy.
- or any combination of the three suggestions above.
"Teachers teach money" workshop
In this two day workshop, teachers will learn the specificities of teaching financial education and get a Teacher's Guide of our main programmes, that they can adapt and use in their classes. They will also get updated course material through our online Resource Centre and be invited to join our Trainer's Forum to virtually exchange their difficulties and successes with other financial education trainers and teachers,
- Day 1: morning:
- Evaluate why basic financial literacy is important,
- Grasp the challenges and specificity of teaching finance (behaviour learning, maths literacy, etc…)
- Get familiar with“Money” curriculum and training packages for children
- Day 1: afternoon:
- Course demonstration
- Course practice (teachers get the trainers’ guide beforehand in order to prepare one activity)
- Day 2: morning:
- Course practice by teachers
- Day 2: afternoon:
- Identify adaptation needs
- Assess how to evaluate the impact of a financial education project.
It can be taught in your school or in another training centre. Contact us.
Integrate financial education in your school curriculum:
Our process is flexible and adaptable to your goals, your school's size, available teachers and time. Usually our design process is in three steps:
- Define project goals and scope (time frame, age range, subject(s) the courses will be integrated into, school other curriculum...) and design the curriculum accordingly
- Run a pilot class then fine-tune the curriculum
- Train your teachers to run the curriculum and evaluate the project impact.
Read what our students say:
"My son really enjoyed the money course and he is much more eager to save, than to spend now!" (Nathan (6 years old) 's mother - Adventures at Money Park)
“My children told me that they have enjoyed a lot of your teaching. Today, I asked several questions (from your print) to them, to my surprise, they answered all right. I guess they must like your class, otherwise, they won't remember at all what they learned”. (Kosei, her 2 kids attended A Trip to the Money Moon)
“I have spent hours to talk to him about the need for recording expenses but he ignored me. After the course, he wrote it down and did have some idea on the need of savings.” (Theo (9)’s mother – A Trip to the Money Moon)
“The activity I liked the most was the shopping game because we got to use money and buy stuff.” (A participant in A Month without Parents)
“The activity I liked the most was the budget map, buying with my credit card and shopping.” (A participant in A Weekend Off)
“The activities I liked the most were getting a job, shopping and paying the bills because they were fun, educational and they all attracted my attention.” (A participant in A Month without Parents)
“The activities I liked the most were the map, shopping, the phone, EVERYTHING because it is great and I learned a lot with it.” (A participant in A Month without Parents)
