I sent out a notice last week letting everyone know about the free ASIC "MoneySmart" parent and teacher sessions held locally on Thursday. It was great to see some of you there despite the short notice (for which I apologise)! Rest assured I'm following a path that will see more of you in the Hume region having access to this opportunity.
In my explorations of Scootle I came across some lessons and a link to the MoneySmart Teaching website. I also work in a school where the MoneySmart program is being used although I've never really had much to do with it. As I also attended both the parent and teacher sessions it's pretty safe to say that when I got wind of the sessions being run locally my ears pricked up with interest.
note: You must be logged into scootle to view the below links. Otherwise you will be asked to log in OR be redirected to the closest publicly accessible parent page. We sent out an email to all Wodonga and Shepparton CRT Support Network members this week with an activation link to join Scootle through special arrangements made for CRTs by VIT. We recommend that all Victorian CRTs become Scootle members. Scootle offers links to Professional development, classroom resources and a community for teachers to discuss topics and share ideas (sort of like Facebook but just for those dealing with the Australian Curriculum).
We apologise to our international readers but you will NOT be able to gain access to scootle.
Money, of course, features specifically in the Australian National Curriculum. The MoneySmart program is currently referenced against the areas of:
It is referenced against 45 mathematics and ICT areas (primary and secondary):
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewMetadata.action?id=M007694&tabView=curriculum
All further links do NOT require scootle access ;).
It was an interesting pair of sessions and I'm glad I attended both in the end. The two had slightly different focuses and different atmospheres even though the content was much the same. The parent session was far more "this is what your kids will be doing in school" and more discussion based where the teacher session was a "straight down the line lets get this into classrooms" approach. I walked away from both with two different perspectives and I consider both interesting and useful.
Although the parents were shown the MoneySmart Teaching primary handbooks they weren't really given them to walk away with. Teachers, on the other hand, were given access to walk away with both the primary and secondary handbooks. I should mention that these aren't little pamphlets either... It's very nearly 4 kilograms of spiral bound goodness when you put the primary and secondary handbooks on the kitchen scales!
The handbooks contain documentation and groups of lesson plans. The primary handbook contains 2 groups (integrated studies and Maths) and the secondary handbook contains 3 (7-10 maths, 7-8 science and 9-10 english) and I'll bring these handbooks to next Wednesday's network meeting for those interested to have a look at.
The range of people in attendance was actually quite varied. There were parents who wanted to see what it was all about, teachers looking for a way to back their curriculum, Hume banking staff, financial planners looking for tools to help some of their clients out of money troubles and representatives for local community groups. The range of groups and services looking to MoneySmart as an educational tool is something you don't see too often.
It should also be mentioned that there is an ongoing trial for MoneySmart in Victorian schools the Federal government has agreed to fund MoneySmart in Australian schools for the next 4 years. It certainly seems like MoneySmart is here to stay and worth becoming aware of both in context and implementation.
Regards,
Mel.
In my explorations of Scootle I came across some lessons and a link to the MoneySmart Teaching website. I also work in a school where the MoneySmart program is being used although I've never really had much to do with it. As I also attended both the parent and teacher sessions it's pretty safe to say that when I got wind of the sessions being run locally my ears pricked up with interest.
note: You must be logged into scootle to view the below links. Otherwise you will be asked to log in OR be redirected to the closest publicly accessible parent page. We sent out an email to all Wodonga and Shepparton CRT Support Network members this week with an activation link to join Scootle through special arrangements made for CRTs by VIT. We recommend that all Victorian CRTs become Scootle members. Scootle offers links to Professional development, classroom resources and a community for teachers to discuss topics and share ideas (sort of like Facebook but just for those dealing with the Australian Curriculum).
We apologise to our international readers but you will NOT be able to gain access to scootle.
Money, of course, features specifically in the Australian National Curriculum. The MoneySmart program is currently referenced against the areas of:
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewMetadata.action?id=M007694&tabView=curriculum
All further links do NOT require scootle access ;).
It was an interesting pair of sessions and I'm glad I attended both in the end. The two had slightly different focuses and different atmospheres even though the content was much the same. The parent session was far more "this is what your kids will be doing in school" and more discussion based where the teacher session was a "straight down the line lets get this into classrooms" approach. I walked away from both with two different perspectives and I consider both interesting and useful.
Although the parents were shown the MoneySmart Teaching primary handbooks they weren't really given them to walk away with. Teachers, on the other hand, were given access to walk away with both the primary and secondary handbooks. I should mention that these aren't little pamphlets either... It's very nearly 4 kilograms of spiral bound goodness when you put the primary and secondary handbooks on the kitchen scales!
The handbooks contain documentation and groups of lesson plans. The primary handbook contains 2 groups (integrated studies and Maths) and the secondary handbook contains 3 (7-10 maths, 7-8 science and 9-10 english) and I'll bring these handbooks to next Wednesday's network meeting for those interested to have a look at.
The range of people in attendance was actually quite varied. There were parents who wanted to see what it was all about, teachers looking for a way to back their curriculum, Hume banking staff, financial planners looking for tools to help some of their clients out of money troubles and representatives for local community groups. The range of groups and services looking to MoneySmart as an educational tool is something you don't see too often.
It should also be mentioned that there is an ongoing trial for MoneySmart in Victorian schools the Federal government has agreed to fund MoneySmart in Australian schools for the next 4 years. It certainly seems like MoneySmart is here to stay and worth becoming aware of both in context and implementation.
Regards,
Mel.
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