Financial Education Conference 2008
SCFE Financial Education Conference
The Scottish Centre for Financial Education (SCFE) in partnership with Prudential organised a one-day conference for delegates from both the education and financial services sector on 4 December 2008.
Conference speeches were by Chris Pond, Maureen Watt and Nick Prettejohn.
Workshops
Workshop 1: Developing Financial Capability in Northern Ireland
Two colleagues from Northern Ireland talk about how they are engaging with schools and teachers building on some of the lessons learned from co-operative work with SCFE and PFEG.
Workshop 2: Policy and Practice - recent developments in financial education in English schools
This workshop focused on how financial capability is being implemented, what needs to be in place for it to be successful and showed some recent resources that would be equally relevant in Scottish schools.
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Workshop 3: Financial Capability - a global perspective
In his workshop, Shaun will discuss good practices from around the world; describe the challenges in delivering good financial education and suggest how these challenges can be overcome.
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Workshop 4: The Financal Services Authority's approach to developing financial capability
Rebecca Harrison and Michael Royce from the FSA will describe how the learning sectors - and the staff with them - are key to implementing it's strategy to enhance the financial capability of students and young people.
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Workshop 5: Engaging with the Money Outcomes of the Numeracy Experiences and Outcomes
Find out more about the work in the Scottish Borders where working groups were set up last autumn to address each set of Experiences and Outcomes in different ways.Workshop 6: Financial Education across Inverclyde
This workshop will focus on financial education across all sectors in Inverclyde. Margaret Kelly will outline the philosophy and thinking behind this approach.Workshop 7: Financial Education: - never to early - Newark Nursery School
Nursery Headteacher Hazel Mitchell, having taken a closer look at the early level draft money outcomes in Curriculum for Excellence, worked with a very innovative staff and planned a very successful money project.Workshop 8: Skills for independent living: an ASN approach - Abercorn School
This workshop will allow delegates to learn more about innovative Financial Capability education in schools for young people with Additional Support Needs.Workshop 9: Mobile Madness - Dreghorn Primary School
This project has pupil information, a selection of financial fact cards and video clips of individuals which children use to determine which phone contract is best for each character.Workshop 10: Financial Fortnight - Dundonald Primary School
This workshop will share the 'Finance Fortnight' venture with colleagues from education and business.
Workshop 11: On the Money evaluation
Maureen Finn examines the process of evaluating the learning and teaching associated with On the Money. Janice Alston offers a teacher's perspective of the process.
Workshop 12: Financial Education in the Primary
The aims of this workshop are to illustrate the work of Kinneil Primary in financial education including their work during 'Money Week'.
Workshop 13: The Money Museum: Classroom Resource
The HBOS Museum on the Mound, Edinburgh, offers visiting school children a series of activity sessions based on its historical collections.
Workshop 14: 'Tackling Debt' resource - a positive approach
Tackling Debt addresses the fact that it is easy to get into serious debt if you are not careful. It consists of five case studies of people doing just that; one of them presented as a film, with ideas given for group and class discussion.
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Workshop 15: 'Small Change' resource and Bannerman High School
Small Change is a financial education resource which came about as a result of partnership working between a number of organisations such as the Scottish Centre for Financial Education and the Development and Regeneration Services at Glasgow City Council (Financial Inclusion Department).
Workshop 16: Evaluation of 'Adding up to a Lifetime'
This workshop will give delegates an opportunity to hear about the resource from one of the teachers involved in the evaluation.
Workshop 17: Financial Education in a Secondary School - St Andrew's High School
This workshop will describe the implementation of a particular project piloted with a small group of pupils in St Andrew's High School in 2008.
Workshop 18: Skilled to Go: Learning everyday consumer skills - a teachers' toolkit
Developed by the Office of Fair Trading and LLU+ at London South Bank University, 'Skilled to Go' helps to develop transferable consumer skills, knowledge and confidence.