How to Teach Financial Literacy
In today’s complex economic landscape, equipping students with financial literacy is essential. This comprehensive course empowers educators to impart crucial financial knowledge and skills, enabling students to make informed decisions. Through interactive workshops, school visits, and practical activities, you’ll explore topics such as personal finance management, smart consumerism, recognizing financial scams, and fostering an entrepreneurial mindset.
What You’ll Learn:
Engage in a hands-on curriculum designed to enhance your teaching of financial literacy. You’ll delve into managing personal finances, understanding employment responsibilities, and implementing team-based activities using free digital tools. The course includes visits to local vocational schools and practical cooking sessions in Finnish middle school home economics classrooms, culminating in a day trip to Tallinn, Estonia.
- Understand the significance of financial literacy in today’s economy.
- Deepen your knowledge of financial literacy concepts.
- Identify and address challenges in teaching financial literacy.
- Assess and compare various methods for teaching financial literacy.
- Develop competence to create engaging activities with your colleagues.
Course Highlights:
- Interactive Workshops: Participate in sessions that provide practical insights and tools for teaching financial literacy.
- School Visits: Observe best practices in local vocational schools and engage in hands-on activities.
- Cultural Immersion: Experience Finnish education and culture, including a day trip to Tallinn, Estonia.
- Resource Development: Create a toolbox of activities to implement in your teaching practice.
- Expert Guidance: Learn from experienced trainers specializing in financial literacy education.
This course combines theoretical knowledge with practical application, ensuring you can immediately implement what you’ve learned in your educational setting.
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Tickets
All tickets includes:
- Event materials
- Certificate of attendance
- School visits
- Admission to all sessions
Standard price
For standard registrations
Group price
Discounted price forgroups of 5 or more
By the end of this course, you will:
- Apply effective methods for teaching financial literacy.
- Create engaging and informative financial literacy activities for students.
- Utilize free digital tools to enhance financial education.
- Implement team-based activities to foster collaborative learning.
- Develop an action plan to integrate financial literacy into your curriculum.
This course is ideal for educators, youth workers, and educational support staff involved in creating educational programs and materials, aiming to enhance their competence in teaching financial literacy.
With a Doctor of Science in entrepreneurship and a Master of Science in technology, this versatile educator brings a wealth of expertise to her role as a teacher trainer. Qualified as both a vocational and special needs teacher, she has been training educators since 2005. Her areas of specialization include learning design, digital pedagogy, design thinking, playful learning, and peer mentoring. With decades of experience in upper secondary and higher education, she has taught subjects such as mathematics, IT, business studies, and entrepreneurship. She has facilitated extensive vocational teacher training programs for international participants in Finland, Colombia, and South Africa, as well as workshops and shorter trainings across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Equally adept in face-to-face, online, and hybrid environments, she seamlessly integrates innovative and practical approaches to education.
This is a provisional program.
Day 1, Sunday
13:00–16:00 – Setting the learning arch:
Distance learning: Prepare for team presentations (1 hour).
Course introduction and practicalities.
Getting to know each other and forming teams.
Day 2, Monday
10:00–14:00 – The Big Picture:
Distance learning: Familiarize yourself with Global Money Week materials (1 hour).
Team presentations.
What is Financial Literacy and why it matters?
Challenges in teaching Financial Literacy.
Day 3, Tuesday
10:00–14:00 – Benchmarking Methods:
Distance learning: Share takeaways in home teams (1 hour).
Jigsaw Workshop: Expert teams explore existing methods for teaching financial literacy.
Visit to the Bank of Finland Money Museum.
Day 4, Wednesday
10:00–14:00 – Open Learning Environments:
School visit to observe financial literacy practices.
Tour of Oodi Central Library and Makerspace.
Day 5, Thursday
10:30–19:30 – Trip to Tallinn:
Guided tour of Tallinn’s Old Town..
Viking Line Conference Room: Brainstorming activities for teaching financial literacy.
Day 6, Friday
13:00–18:00 – Consumer Skills:
Cooking and eating together while discussing consumerism.
Activities at Iso Omena shopping mall and Opinmäki Campus: Price comparisons and purchasing ingredients for a meal.
Day 7, Saturday
10:00–12:00 – Landing the Learning Arch:
Course certificates and farewell.
Team presentations.
Reflection and “Walk Down Memory Lane.”
