TEACH CHILDREN TO SAVE DAY, APRIL 27, 2010

Last year bankers reached 1 million students through the Teach Children to Save program. Plan now to participate in the National Teach Children to Save Program and join with nearly 50,000 bankers that have made it a priority to provide children with money skills they'll use throughout life. Do your part and help your community by visiting a classroom, church group or youth group and sharing savings lessons.

FINANCIAL LITERACY REPORT FORM

Financial education is the key to responsible consumerism and a responsible banking industry. We want to know what kinds of financial literacy efforts your bank sponsors. Click here for a copy of the MBA Financial Literacy Report Form. Completed forms may be FAXED or mailed to the Missouri Bankers Association.

GET SMART ABOUT CREDIT DAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010  

Young people need to know how to use credit wisely. So, to raise awareness among teens and young adults about the importance of credit smarts, the ABA Education Foundation sponsors Get Smart About Credit Day. On this date, bankers like you go to classrooms, connect with youth groups, and visit college campuses to help young people in the community get smart about credit now, so they can make smart financial choices later in life.

You can bring personal experience and much needed expertise to this important life lesson. So, please contact your local high school, community college, university, youth group, and vocational training facility about teaching their students how to budget, use credit cards responsibly and build a positive payment history.

Money Smart Week is an effort coordinated by financial institutions, non-profits, schools, libraries and government agencies to advance financial education within the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. It's designed to promote and encourage sound financial behavior throughout the region. Free educational seminars and activities are held during this week-long event. To register an event or to view a calendar of events visit www.moneysmartkc.org.

ABA EDUCATION FOUNDATION FINANCIAL LITERACY PARTNERSHIPS

The ABA Education Foundation has formed partnerships with state bankers associations, national organizations, coalitions and government agencies with similar goals to promote financial literacy. These organizations are all involved with consumer education and/or working with young people and offer opportunities for partnerships at the local level. Click to learn more about partnerships.

The ABA has additional brochures, worksheets, kits and other resources available to banks. Click here for additional Banker Resources.

MONEY TALKS NEWSLETTER

Money Smart 

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created Money Smart to help adults enhance their money skills and create positive banking relationships. Financial education fosters financial stability for individuals, families, and entire communities. The more people know about credit and banking services, the more likely they are to increase savings, buy homes, and improve their financial health and well being.

The Money Smart curriculum helps individuals build financial knowledge, develop financial confidence, and use banking services effectively. The FDIC encourages banks to work with others in their communities to deliver financial education by sponsoring workshops. To order a free copy click here.

Money Math: Lessons for Life  

Twenty partners, including the U.S. Treasury and the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, created Money Math: Lessons for Life. Money Math is a four-lesson curriculum supplement for middle school math classes, teaching grade 7-9 math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance.

A downloadable 86-page Teacher's Guide complete with lesson plans and reproducible activity pages is available free online. click here to learn more. 

Grade level: 9-12

It's Your Paycheck! is designed for use in high school personal finance classes. The curriculum contains three sections—"Know Your Dough," "KaChing!" and "All About Credit." The lessons in each of these sections employ various teaching strategies to engage students so that they have opportunities to apply the concepts being taught. Each lesson includes black-line masters of the handouts and visuals needed to teach the lesson.

 Grade level: 8-12

 Cards, Cars and Currency is a curriculum unit that challenges students to become involved in three specific areas of personal finance:

• credit cards
• debit cards and
• purchasing a car

The unit is divided into five lesson plans. The activities in each lesson plan are designed to address problem-solving, critical-thinking and higher levels of learning, using real-world scenarios. With a focus on responsibility for personal financial decisions, students will be able to identify the bottom line of financial decision making: income kept or lost.For access to these materials and more, Click here .

The Money Marathon: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

Long time banker, Ed Douglas, retired Chairman and CEO and certified financial planner, has written a book specifically for bankers and their customers. Topics include how to increase income, lowering expenses, saving techniques, investing fundamentals, debt management, protection and making your money work for you. Click here for more infomation.