Teaching teens financial literacy and important life skills

Learning is a fluid activity, and it should be personalized by definition. All of us have different interests and attitudes. No student learns the same way or at the same pace. This is our personality, our identity, and this is normal. When our diversity is being ignored or oppressed, every learning becomes ineffective, and cognitive science knows that. We, as passionate educators, know this too. That’s why we offer every child to start with interest, proceed with safety, and end up with certain desired outcome. We offer helpers to define learning request, divers types of tasks for different learning preferences, careful scaffolding to support persistence, reflection techniques to make this experience usable in other contexts, real-life activities, as we know that learning is not preparation for life, it IS life. All these tools and methods make learning with us a meaningful and attractive journey, developing student’s agency and confidence.

Oh, we know where this question came from =) Our experience of schooling tell us that you have to go to a special place, isolate yourself there for a certain time, perform tasks that are hardly connected to the rest of your life, and that is called learning. But the learning we offer to you is different! You come here with your own real-life needs and questions, and we offer you tasks and activities to be also performed in real life, while you are at school, or having fun with friends, or talking to your parents, or reflecting your day in the evening. Of course, we have recommended deadlines for topics and tasks, which help to structure yourself. But inside deadlines you are free to plan your own schedule. So, we expect that about 1 hours a day would be added to your ordinary schedule when you enter our learning environment and start your financial improvement journey with us.

First of all, you will solve your own practical tasks. If your concern, for example, is how to save more money per month, you will develop a certain strategy for it or with visible changes in the amount you have in your pocket at the end of a learning period. If you want to start earning, your outcome will be like: I know by what to earn, I now how to find the earning source, I have an earning plan, or even I’m already employed — it depends only on how far you are ready to go with us. Secondly, you get related practical skills like writing CV’s or budgeting for yourself, or even labor market research, depending on what track you take. Third, you will be trained in a bunch of useful life skills that allow you to be structured, persistent and independent not only in financial issues, but in all of life. And finally, you will build courage and self-confidence, as you learn in the environment where your own needs and ideas are valued and completely define your learning strategy.