The NFEC’s Financial Literacy Standards for learners and educators were developed to improve the quality and enhance the impact of financial literacy instruction. These standards define what a person should know about personal finance across the core areas of this subject matter and the best practices for teaching personal finance.
In this free-online course, you’ll build the knowledge and skills necessary to make financial literacy part of your 21st CCLC program.
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The lesson plans and assessments included in Money Math for Teens explore the mathematics behind personal finance concepts such as compound interest, opportunity costs and more—all in a way that’s practical and relevant to teens. The lessons have varying degrees of complexity and are suitable for students in middle and high school.
National financial literacy partnership of Consumer Action and Capital One, and provides free multilingual educational materials, headline news on personal finance topics and recommended publications created by other organizations and government agencies.
Curriculum resources provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, an includes materials for teaching young people, young adults, adults, older adults, and small businesses.
This toolkit, offered by the National Endowment for Financial Education, is an online resource that shows how to apply evaluation techniques to programs to document learner impact.