Gareth Jones

Developing Respect and Resilience for Financially Literacy

Posted on by Gareth Jones

Cohort 21 – Season 12

“Sharing your learning”

 

  Guiding Question for Inquiry and Action Plan

How might we develop financially literate students who gain a new respect for   and resilience towards all matter’s money?

The Process

  1. Connected the inquiry to a school sponsored math action research and piloted a classroom economy program with a Grade 5 focus.
  2. Included phased qualitative data from the students and families.
  3. Created adaptable long term plans to teach a financial literacy focus theme 3 times a term, with themes from what money is, the history of money, how money is used in our day to day lives, the idea of giving back, and the idea of making your money grow.
  4. Conducted research on the impact of teaching Financial Literacy from a young age, and connecting to building resilience in our students.
  5. Shared professional development and learning with BVG Lower School staff.   See attached presentation: Financial Literacy Staff Meeting
  6. Continued review, research, and reflection to make this a part of Grade 5 life, and beyond!

Takeaways:

The experience has highlighted how motivating real life application of learning can be. Students have shown evidenced growth and approached the classroom economy and financial literacy focuses with genuine curiosity and interest! Investment was high!

I am excited that this was a pilot year and that the research and classroom economy programme will continue to go through the cycle of review and grow. Here is to Year 2 and to more curiosity!

2 thoughts on “Developing Respect and Resilience for Financially Literacy”

  1. Gareth, thank you for sharing these updates! So nice to hear about the success this plan has had with the students this year. I also enjoyed the Britpop era Gareth photo from your staff meeting slides. I am looking forward to catching up tomorrow. Take care.

  2. @gjones Congratulations on completing your action plan and the end of the beginning of your cohort 21 journey. I hope you enjoyed the process and that you will continue to apply what you learned to your next classroom challenge. Consider coming back as a coach next year!
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