Financial Literacy Curriculum

Many financial institutions, governments and independent organizations have developed financial literacy curricula. A financial literacy curriculum teaches basic financial skills to students of various age groups. Some curricula are age specific while others seeks to teach universal principles to those of all ages.

iGrad - Your Financial Mastery

Developed by iGrad and Pay Your Family First, the Your Financial Mastery - Financial Literacy for the Real World,[1] is a comprehensive college-level financial literacy curriculum.[2] Written by best-selling author Sharon Lechter, CPA and Angela Totman, CPFFE, the Your Financial Mastery meets the core competencies set by the Department of Treasury and is designed to enhance retention and modify money management behaviors by delivering the content via the flipped classroom format.

FDIC Money Smart

Developed by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Money Smart for Young Adults is a financial literacy curriculum designed for students between the ages of 12 and 20. It has 8 modules, each of which take approximately 110 minutes to complete. Money Smart for Young Adults focuses on saving, debt, home ownership. Money Smart for Young Adults does not currently offer an investing module.[3]

NEFE

The National Endowment for Financial Education, better known by their initialism NEFE, is a non-profit organization that provides financial literacy curricula for high school and college students.[4]

SUCCESS Program

The SUCCESS Program is a video based financial literacy curriculum for middle school and high school students. (2) http://www.feslearning.com

Junior Achievement

(3) http://www.ja.org

Hands On Banking

Hands on Banking, a financial literacy curriculum developed by Wells Fargo, has units on the nature of money, budgeting, saving, debt, and investing. Each of these units contains several individual lessons.[5]

FoolProof Financial Literacy Curriculum

The FoolProof Financial Literacy Curriculum is a highly interactive, self-grading group of online lessons called "modules." The modules teach young people about money, financial responsibility and the realities of the free enterprise system.[6]

Other

The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy provides the Jump$tart Clearinghouse, which is a comprehensive listing of educational resources that can be used to teach financial literacy.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://schools.igrad.com/blog/sharon-lechter-and-igrad-publish-classroom-curriculum
  2. ↑ http://schools.igrad.com/course
  3. ↑ http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/moneysmart/young.html
  4. ↑ http://www.hsfpp.org/about-the-program.aspx
  5. ↑ http://www.handsonbanking.org
  6. ↑ http://www.foolproofteacher.com
  7. ↑ http://www.jumpstart.org/jump$tart-clearinghouse.html
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