We Teach to Teach
Peer Mentoring Program
In just 5 hrs (1 week w/1 hr lessons) students can build financial literacy, math, and leadership skills. We'll show you how.
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Learning Outcomes Include:
- Choosing a life vision, thinking critically, and creating a plan to earn a living while living deeply fulfilling lives.
- Defining what wealth, freedom, happiness mean to them.
- Mastering the two most important resources they have: Time & Money
- Understanding the 4 things that they can do with their money
- Understanding spending
- Understanding why we save
- Understanding earned vs. passive income
- Defining assets and liabilities.
- Understanding simple vs. compounding interest.
- Understanding how interest can be your best friend or your worst enemy.
- Understanding the importance of Using credit wisely.
- Understanding the concept of leveraging time and money to reach their idea of wealth & happiness.
HOW WE DO IT
Financial literacy is usually taught over a semester or month long course in high school or college. We believe middle school students can achieve similar proficiency in 1 week in just 5 hrs.
How do we do this? Instead of standing in front of a room giving lectures on dry topics like math and finance we personalize every lesson plan and make the learning hands-on, experiential, and multi-cultural for the students. Opportunities for mentors and parents to share their experiences with students including their past financial failures and successes are built into every lesson plan to facilitate deeper understanding. If we really want to pass on knowledge, change attitudes, and ultimately behaviors then the curriculum has to be engaging, fun, and practical for students to master crucial concepts in the classroom that they will be able to apply in the real world.
The interdisciplinary hands on curriculum, designed by Joel Thomas, WI Governor's Council on Financial Literacy Award Winner is meant to serve as a way to enhance students' critical thinking, math, and leadership skills while building their financial literacy.
CALL TO ACTION – LEAD WHERE YOU ARE!
We are teaching to teach and making this delivery model multi-generational. We are encouraging you to get involved as an educator who can deliver some amazing work on the ground with our curriculum when you have time. Perhaps training someone you believe in to lead where they are, or by leading your own camp.
WHY WE DO IT
Think about it for a moment, did your teachers teach you about financial literacy in school? Did your parents teach you about finances at home? Did you like math when you were younger? If you answered "no" to all of these questions then you probably learned from the school of hard knocks.
The economy and financial marketplace has changed and it is now much more difficult to get up when you get knocked down. Most students are getting knocked down and knocked out before they have a chance to make a meaningful contribution to their local community and economy. We would like to change that trend.
- Teenage Research Unlimited | 2010 "Teens surveyed reported spending 97% of their money instead of saving it."
- John Simpson | Indiana University Administrator, Congressional Record - House March 28, 2001 "University administrators state that they lose more students to credit card debt than to academic failure."
- Kiplinger's Letter | Dec. 2, 2011 "The average student graduates with $27,000 in student loan debt. It will take years longer for them than for grads a decade ago to acquire the means to buy a home or start a businesses."
- Financial literacy at an early age is vital to keeping the American Dream of Entrepreneurship and Home Ownership alive. We believe before kids are college ready and career ready, they need to be high school ready and that's why we choose to make an impact on tweens in middle school.
