Teaching financial and money skills

Everyone needs financial skills whatever their background.

The key competencies for this section are:

Competence 1: managing finances - Learners should be given the opportunity to evaluate how they spend their money and how they can improve their own finances through better understanding of finance and consumer issues.
Competence 2: undertake financial risk assessements - Learners should also be able to budget in order to manage their own personal finances and evaluate the consequences when making financial decisions. They should also be able to understand different choices, responsibilities advice and redress.

Lesson plans

A number of lesson plans have been devised to help you teach financial issues in the classroom. This section contains links to lesson plans that have been specifically designed to be suitable for primary, secondary and adult education. These lesson plans cover a range of interesting subjects and provide suggestions for interactive sessions with your students. Read more

Teaching materials and resources

A number of teaching resources have been devised to help you teach financial issues in the classroom. This section contains links to resources that have been specifically designed to be suitable for primary, secondary and adult education. These resources cover a range of interesting subjects and can be used to help develop interactive teaching sessions for your students. Read more