Youth Aged 16-17: Financial Life Skills (Self-education)
Ten financial life skill topics for teenagers aged 16+, although youth younger and older will also benefit from engagement. This is intended as a self-education course.
Welcome and introduction
Before we begin ...
Topic 1: Asking Questions Is The Secret To Managing Money
Topic 2: How Do I Prepare A Budget?
Topic 3: 'Tap and Go" Cards: Stop and Think
Topic 4: Costs and Benefits
Topic 5: Solving Problems Through Entrepreneurial Behaviour
Topic 6: We All Should Have A Financial Licence
Topic 7: Insurance: Theft, Viruses and Rock n Roll
Topic 8: How Could I Invest $2000? (2)
Topic 9: What is Tax?
Topic 10: It's Super To Know About 'Super'!
AI Perspective: Essential Financial Life Skills 16-17
AI Perspective: Contactless Payments
AI Perspective: Financial Traits for Aged 16-17
Review Your Learning - Youth 16-17 Financial Life Skills
2.1 Before you go ...
2.2 Conclusion
Schools, youth centres, homes and non-profits
Financial education has never been more important!
This mini-course has been developed for the teenagers in senior school (16-17), tertiary and vocational education. Many of the topics within would be of interest to teenagers younger and older than this age group. In this course, a facilitator (possibly you) leads one or more students through the activities. It is not designed as a self-education course, although students could choose to self-educate if they prefer.
We have chosen ten topics for this course. It is always debatable what goes into any course selection, but we have taken a program view, and considered the range of topics in our range of courses from upper primary through to late teenage students. Facilitators have the option of dipping in and out of this course as well as other age level courses to deliver their own specific program. We expect facilitators will make good use of that flexibility. From reading the topics, you will see that there is a breadth of topics, ensuring lots of variety. Once you get into the course you will also note that we dip into websites and articles and links from around the world. The WWW is an open-source library of resources which we will point you towards if we think it will add value to your student's learning.
It has been developed to help those who have a passion, interest or responsibility to support the wellbeing of teenagers. This type of course is constructed on the premise that there is a facilitator at the front of a room, guiding the learning of one or more students through the topics of the course, using a data projector or smart board. Or it could be a parent helping a child in their home study, or a youth coordinator supporting teens in need, or a financial planner or accountant supporting the children of clients.
Facilitators may choose to do all 10 topics or just one. They also have the choice of doing all, some or none of the activities within each course topic. We aim to give the facilitator as much choice as possible.
It is important to note, that there is NO student information collected through the facilitator model. It is a facilitator's username and email address that is collected as part of the subscription process. This is necessary to maintain vigilance over security, as well as support for the facilitator.
We provide a 4 month window from registration date. As there are only 10 topics, 4 months should be ample time to complete the course with students.
No.We intend to update and add lessons to each course regularly, giving you greater choice in how you use the course in a school, college or organisational setting. We understand that you may want to use the course each year with different sets of students.
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The Wealth Academy is an education-based company. We provide courses, programs and resources to help young people to develop their financial knowledge and skills. We do NOT suggest or offer any form of financial advice. Course participants seeking financial advice should seek support from licensed financial advisors and institutions.