Enjoy these and other valuable resources for educators as NJCFE members team up together to promote financial literacy statewide!

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Edutopia News- Exciting Information for Educators! (April 2012)

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“Starting To Plan For Your Retirement While In College”

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“An Early Start on Saving for Retirement “

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All parents want to teach their children good money habits from an early age. Many start by giving them an allowance. But it’s equally important to teach children a positive, generous attitude as they learn to use money responsibly. Filled with warm, memorable illustrations by award-winning painter, April Willy, Three Cups is the story of one family’s unique and effective method of teaching personal financial management—and how one boy reaped first the small, then the immeasurably great rewards of the lessons he learned.  Families will be delighted with the heart-warming tale and want to integrate the three-cup system in their own children’s lives.

Click Here to Order this Book!

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Career Quest Coaching

With high school and college student dropout rates reaching astronomical highs, and with international competition in the marketplace exploding, how do we keep our students motivated to stay and excel in school? Through the development of clear, measurable and attainable future career and life goals, students will see tangible “gain from the pain” of staying in school.
The Career Quest Program and in the development of their “Career Owner’s Manual” students will realize that any challenges they face will be worth overcoming. They will understand the benefit of sacrificing their time, money and effort, when there is now a future worth working towards.

More Information

Career Quest Brochure

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Financial Education Training:

Suzanne Curren
Phone:  800.487.5500  ext. 5476
Email: scurren@andrewsfcu.org

Credit Union:
Andrews Federal Credit Union
5711 Allentown Road
Suitland, MD 20746

Local Credit Union Address:
Andrews Federal Credit Union
Larchmont Commons
3113 Route 38
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054

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Foundations in Personal Finance

This high-impact, interactive course meets national Jump$tart Coalition standards as well as the updated New Jersey state standards in personal finance literacy. Organized into twelve chapters, our curriculum focuses on best practices for video-based learning and includes a workbook filled with cooperative and individual learning activities, case studies that promote higher order thinking skills, video notes, and comprehensive assessments.

Foundations in Personal Finance covers a wide range of topics, from budgeting and debt to investing and insurance. Each of the twelve chapters can be taught together as a series or as stand-alone units. As a result, the curriculum can be used as its own quarter or semester-long course, or it can be embedded within other courses such as practical arts, social studies, math, or economics.

You can check out samples of Foundations in Personal Finance here!

Click New Jersey Crosswalk for more information!

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21st Century Learning Resources

Are you teaching 21st Century Skills in your classroom and SLEs?  It is a goal of the NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards that our students are prepared for the 21st Century world in which they will live and pursue their careers.

To help teachers with this challenge, the NJDOE has defined 21st Careers, Themes and Skills as follows:
* 21st Century Careers means careers and occupations that have been impacted by technological and global forces and are in an ongoing state of reinvention due to technological advances and e – commerce.

Resources and support for 21st Century Learning can be found here.

Resources for 21st Century Learning tools can be found here.

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“Using Twitter to Teach Personal Finance”
By Dr. Barbara O’Neill, Ph.D.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension

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Hands on Banking
The Hands on Banking program is helping students across the United States grasp important mathematics concepts while gaining valuable skills for life. The curriculum aligns with national and state principles and standards for mathematics, reading, and economics. All units and lessons are grade-level appropriate and are available in both English and Spanish.  To explore how Hands on Banking alligns with New Jersey Educational Standards, click here.

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“15 Interactive Financial Activities”
to Increase Financial Literacy
By Dr. Barbara O’Neill, P.h.D
Rutgers Cooperative Extension

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The Wi$eMoney Board Game
Teams learn, discuss and solve problems together by analyzing options. They are able to face dynamic real-world situations and decision consequences. Wi$eMoney facilitates thinking about personal financial management and responsibility. As well as financial planning, budgeting, banking, investing, credit and identity protection.

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Teachers Training Teachers
This innovative program was developed with funding from the Council for Economic Education. Instead of the typical training conference format, with speaker-led presentations, conference participants (teachers and other youth educators) taught each other while competing for the title of “New Jersey Financial Education Idol.”

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“It’s A Habit!”
The “It’s A Habit!” Company, Inc. (IAHC) is a socially conscious startup corporation located in Los Angeles, California that is dedicated to teaching financial literacy and other empowering life skills and habits in a strategic manner (ie. both entertaining and educational) to youths of all ages, with a focus on young children and their families

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The ABCs of Credit Card Finance
by Dr. Carol A Carolan

This popular credit card literacy program is now available online in two distinct formats. Teachers are able to download the traditional program materials (student primer, Trainer’s Guide and PowerPoint Presentation) or students can independently take the new interactive and animated program online. “The ABCs of Credit Card Finance”

PowerPoint Games
Create your own Jeopardy Game and teach students how to master personal finance!

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” Fraud Scene Investigator ”
Fraud Scene Investigator is an interactive investor education program that teaches and empowers students how to detect and stop investment fraud, using a resource they’re most familiar with-the Internet.

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“The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy”
The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy determined that the average student who graduates from high school lacks basic skills in the management of personal financial affairs. Many are unable to balance a checkbook and most simply have no insight into the basic survival principles involved with earning, spending, saving and investing.

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“The Money Mammals” by Snigglezoo Entertainment
You teach them their ABCs, you teach them to eat right, you teach them good manners. Now teach them something just as important… The Value of Money!

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The National Endowment for Financial Education is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the goal of helping all American improve the quality of their lives through their acquisition if information and skills that enable sound and knowledgeable financial decision making.

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Jaguar Educational is a publisher and distributor of high-quality educational materials for use in schools, social service agencies, job search and career centers, health care organizations, libraries, and other educational institutions.

Jaguar offers posters, videos, books, and CD-ROMs in the following subject areas: Biology, Career Education, Job Search, Character Education, Job Success, Life Skills, At-Risk Youth, Health and Nutrition, and Substance Abuse Prevention.

We encourage you to contact us with inquiries, suggestions, and requests

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Classroom, Inc.

Provides Real World Financial Literacy Through Virtual Internships   Classroom, Inc. – is a non-profit organization with a highly successful program used to enhance financial literacy skills for elementary, middle and high school students.  Classroom, Inc. provides unique programs that put students in the role of decision makers in banking and financial industries.  Classroom, Inc.’s virtual internships have curriculum connections to engage students, build literacy, math and financial literacy skills by working collaboratively on real world problems. Each of Classroom, Inc.’s three financial literacy packages engage students in grappling with financial literacy in a realistic “virtual workplace” where they are treated as responsible adults. �
The Chelsea Bank (Elementary to Middle School) ·
The Finance Center (Middle to High School)

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“Real Money”
A Financial Simulation for Young Adults, is an interactive financial simulation program that helps teenagers and young adults understand how personal behaviors and decisions affect someone’s finances and quality of life. While dozens of high quality financial simulations for youth exist and have been used successfully for several decades, most are very resource intensive and require a large room (e.g., gymnasium or cafeteria), months of advance planning, substantial photocopying, and dozens of volunteers to staff “stations” for various household expenses (e.g., landlord, utility company, car dealer, and insurance agent)

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Sammy’s Secret, Dream and Discovery!

It’s a two disc, 29 track, audio CD JAM PACKED with knowledge and fun! Covers wide array of smart money habits: saving, goal setting, planning, compound interest, smart spending, nothing’s free, conservation. These are the same timeless financial messages endorsed by financial experts like BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, SUZE ORMAN, DAVE RAMSEY and NEFE –

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Early Childhood Finance and Policy
The Alliance for Early Childhood Finance launched their new, re-designed website, which is organized around the 4 pillars of their work: Early Childhood Education (ECE) Finance, ECE Policy, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems, and Shared Services. The site also features a variety of reports, memos, and other documents

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Social Security Media Information Package

This Media Information Page (MIP) is an electronic source of up-to-date materials regarding the Social Security Administration.  Also available in spanish.

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Foundations in Personal FinanceThis high-impact, interactive course meets national Jump$tart Coalition standards as well as the updated New Jersey state standards in personal finance literacy. Organized into twelve chapters, our curriculum focuses on best practices for video-based learning and includes a workbook filled with cooperative and individual learning activities, case studies that promote higher order thinking skills, video notes, and comprehensive assessments.

You can check out samples of Foundations in Personal Finance here!

Click New Jersey Crosswalk for more information!

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Financial Resources

Here at Teachers College Columbia University, through a grant from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, and led by Professor Anand Marri, a group of faculty members and graduate students have developed a curriculum about the federal budget, national debt and budget deficit called Understanding Fiscal Responsibility (UFR, http://understandingfiscalresponsibility.org/).

The curriculum comes at a timely moment in our nation’s history. With unemployment at close to 9% and the economy growing at barely 2%, political debate about the near-term significance of the national debt is at an all time high. While the country is challenged to maintain its commitments to its most vulnerable citizens, to increase revenue by growing the economy, raising taxes, or both, and to bring longterm spending commitments into line with projected resources, quick fixes abound.    Organized around the overarching question: “How should we address our nation’s fiscal challenges today and in the future in a manner that is consistent with our values and traditions?” the goal of the UFR curriculum is prepare students to take on these issues in all of their complexities so that, as adults, they can make informed and independent assessments of the trade-offs built into any solution.   The EdLab, Teachers College Columbia University (http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu/) has created web resources to compliment the curriculum and is also leading the efforts to inform educators and potential users of this resource. The curriculum can be taught and used in a variety of subjects such as US History, Civics, Mathematics, Global History, Government, and Social Studies.