JA Economics for Success

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Gain Creators / Outcomes

  • Students show improvements in competences such as decision-making, problem-solving skills in addition to critical thinking.
  • Students have a better understanding of “how the world works”
  • Students show positive changes in attitude: students are more confident and feeling in control of the future
  • Students show positive changes in behaviour around spending and saving money, budgeting and setting financial goals.
  • Correlates well to curriculum standards and requirements in social studies, language and maths

  • Students show improvements in competences such as decision-making, problem-solving skills in addition to critical thinking.
  • Students have a better understanding of “how the world works”
  • Students show positive changes in attitude: students are more confident and feeling in control of the future
  • Students show positive changes in behaviour around spending and saving money, budgeting and setting financial goals.
  • Correlates well to curriculum standards and requirements in social studies, language and maths

Gains / Needs

  • Need practical learning-by-doing approaches in the classroom
  • Need easy-to-implement activities that fit well within the curriculum
  • Need content that is relevant for young people aged 13-15 as they become more self-aware and discover their interests, skills and values.
  • Need activities that will expose young people to real-world situations and get them thinking constructively about the future

  • Need practical learning-by-doing approaches in the classroom
  • Need easy-to-implement activities that fit well within the curriculum
  • Need content that is relevant for young people aged 13-15 as they become more self-aware and discover their interests, skills and values.
  • Need activities that will expose young people to real-world situations and get them thinking constructively about the future

Target Group

Educators (for students aged 13-15)

Educators (for students aged 13-15)

Implementation Method

Economics for Success is distributed through the JA network. JA offices reach out to local schools, telling them about the programme and/or they work through regional or national education authorities who endorse the programme towards local schools.

Teachers register with their local JA office to participate in the programme and JA helps recruit people from the business community present the activities (the teachers provide support in the classroom).

Economics for Success is distributed through the JA network. JA offices reach out to local schools, telling them about the programme and/or they work through regional or national education authorities who endorse the programme towards local schools.

Teachers register with their local JA office to participate in the programme and JA helps recruit people from the business community present the activities (the teachers provide support in the classroom).

Economics for Success

This is an easy-to-use programme that provides teachers with 6 learning-by-doing activities for students aged 13-15.

By exploring students’ skills, interests and values the programme positively impacts students’ goal-setting and decision-making skills. By developing students’ knowledge of personal finance and spending/saving/budgeting, teachers also see improvements in their students’ self-confidence, behaviours and attitudes towards their future.

In the school year 2014-2015 over 239,000 students enrolled in the programme in 20 countries that run the programme in Europe.

This is an easy-to-use programme that provides teachers with 6 learning-by-doing activities for students aged 13-15.

By exploring students’ skills, interests and values the programme positively impacts students’ goal-setting and decision-making skills. By developing students’ knowledge of personal finance and spending/saving/budgeting, teachers also see improvements in their students’ self-confidence, behaviours and attitudes towards their future.

In the school year 2014-2015 over 239,000 students enrolled in the programme in 20 countries that run the programme in Europe.

Activities

Programme delivery through 6 sessions (approx. 45 min each) where students improve: self-awareness/self-knowledge; setting goals for your financial future; jobs and budgets; being a consumer; understanding credit; learning about risk and personal responsibility.

Programme delivery through 6 sessions (approx. 45 min each) where students improve: self-awareness/self-knowledge; setting goals for your financial future; jobs and budgets; being a consumer; understanding credit; learning about risk and personal responsibility.

Resources

Curricula , training and support for educators & business volunteers:

  • Support materials for 1 class, teachers and volunteers (paper based or online)
  • Training session for teachers and volunteers
  • JA follow-up and support

Manpower:

  • Business volunteers – recruited by JA,
  • Support staff monitor and follow up with teachers and volunteers as they go through the programme.

Curricula , training and support for educators & business volunteers:

  • Support materials for 1 class, teachers and volunteers (paper based or online)
  • Training session for teachers and volunteers
  • JA follow-up and support

Manpower:

  • Business volunteers – recruited by JA,
  • Support staff monitor and follow up with teachers and volunteers as they go through the programme.

Pain Relievers / Solutions

  • Provide ready-to-go easy-to-use materials for teachers; digital options available
  • Activities that are hands-on; student-centred
  • Use interaction with non-teachers such as business volunteers who bring real-world perspective when they present the content and add a ‘cool factor’
  • Use financial literacy as a way to build confidence, change attitudes and behaviours
  • Link with job-shadow initiatives

  • Provide ready-to-go easy-to-use materials for teachers; digital options available
  • Activities that are hands-on; student-centred
  • Use interaction with non-teachers such as business volunteers who bring real-world perspective when they present the content and add a ‘cool factor’
  • Use financial literacy as a way to build confidence, change attitudes and behaviours
  • Link with job-shadow initiatives

Pains / Challenges

  • Difficult age-group to motivate/satisfy
  • Lack of good content/materials activities that positively impact attitudes and behaviours at this age
  • Talking about money and jobs is “not my expertise” but my students this age are thinking about these issues; there is pressure on them to think about their future education choices and careers
  • Teachers lack training in learning-by-doing ‘entrepreneurial’ methods

  • Difficult age-group to motivate/satisfy
  • Lack of good content/materials activities that positively impact attitudes and behaviours at this age
  • Talking about money and jobs is “not my expertise” but my students this age are thinking about these issues; there is pressure on them to think about their future education choices and careers
  • Teachers lack training in learning-by-doing ‘entrepreneurial’ methods

JA Economics for Success, because of its content related to skills/jobs, futures and financial literacy, is of interest to parents and employers and financial service businesses. All of these stakeholders consider it important that young people have the practical information they need well before they join the economy/get a job etc.

Today, JA Economics for Success is running in 48 countries around the world reaching 378,602 students in 2014. 9,402 teachers and 7,717 classroom volunteers participated.

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