Financial Literacy Curriculum & Presentations – Spanish

The NFEC curriculum connects with participants, engages them in the learning process, and inspires them to take positive financial action. The lesson plans focus on creating positive financial habits and relationships with money that will serve participants throughout their lifetimes.

Delivering compelling, relevant content using examples and vernacular to which students can easily relate increases retention rates and makes the process more enjoyable for students and educators alike. Hands-on activities and project-based learning get the students to take action around their personal finances. Students who complete the full course come away with real-world action steps that can ensure their personal financial well-being.

The NFEC curriculum covers core areas with direct impact on one’s personal finances. Topics were selected based on 8 years of refinement, research of existing standards, review of academic studies, suggestions from our Curriculum Advisory Board, and feedback from organizations around the globe.

The NFEC curriculum translated into Spanish are select elements from the subjects below.

The NFEC’s financial literacy curriculum is 100% independent and the organization’s sole purpose is to improve participants’ financial capabilities. No advertising, promotions, or product recommendations are contained in any of the NFEC’s material.

The curriculum has been approved by compliance departments in various financial service sectors and is guaranteed to pass your compliance department audit.

Other curricula on the market often indoctrinate students with company brand messaging that may not serve the best interests of your students – for example, credit card companies. While the NFEC appreciates the efforts of all organizations involved in the financial literacy movement, we also understand the persuasive influence of branding and advertising.

The NFEC is an independent financial literacy organization with a social enterprise business model. This structure gives us the freedom to deliver unbiased financial education and to assist organizations in need of support – reducing the time, cost, and personnel required to develop comprehensive financial literacy curriculum.

The NFEC’s financial literacy curriculum bridges the gap between real-world application and educational standards. The lessons motivate participants to take action to improve their finances, helping them build a foundation that supports growth toward financial wellness.

The curriculum aligns with Common Core standards and has been used by universities as a for-credit course. Although the lesson plans are aligned with Common Core, the NFEC’s primary focus was creating usable exercises that will help students manage their finances better.

Throughout the NFEC coursework participants complete practical activities and take action on what they’ve learned. This practical application helps students form positive financial habits and set up the infrastructure they need to properly manage their finances now and in the future.

The financial literacy curriculum & presentations are designed in modular format to accommodate a variety of schedules and learning outcome goals. Material has been used as after-school programs, weekend workshops, camps, in-class training, lunch-and-learns, accredited college classes, and semester-long courses.

The modular design and clear organization gives you the freedom to choose the material that best aligns with your desired learning outcomes. Select from more than 400 hours of material, including PK – 2^nd grade, 3^rd – 5^th grade, 6^th – 8^th grade, high school, college, and adult.

The NFEC developed the Print on Demand Center (PODC) to provide organizations an easy, cost-effective way to reprint student guides. The PODC gives you the freedom to teach the lessons that will best serve your participants and provide them customized student guides, with just a push of the print button.

The PODC gives you access to the lessons you want to teach. Organized sections allow you to pull together unique presentations that fit the time and goals of your program and its stakeholders; or choose from among the NFEC’s pre-designed presentations. The PODC helps you provide timely lessons that help participants pick up the information that most interests them, while we help them gain broader personal financial skills.

The NFEC offers you a variety of customized branding options to ensure your organizations messaging is communicated in alignment with your objectives. Branding levels are included with select packages or can be purchased separately.

The NFEC curriculum connects with participants, engages them in the learning process, and inspires them to take positive financial action. The lesson plans focus on creating positive financial habits and relationships with money that will serve participants throughout their lifetimes.

Delivering compelling, relevant content using examples and vernacular to which students can easily relate increases retention rates and makes the process more enjoyable for students and educators alike. Hands-on activities and project-based learning get the students to take action around their personal finances. Students who complete the full course come away with real-world action steps that can ensure their personal financial well-being.

The NFEC curriculum covers core areas with direct impact on one’s personal finances. Topics were selected based on 8 years of refinement, research of existing standards, review of academic studies, suggestions from our Curriculum Advisory Board, and feedback from organizations around the globe.

For adults and teens lessons are broken down into 10 personal finance topic areas:

For kids (PK to 8^th Grade) the topics are broken down into 5 areas instead of 10 due to the inter-connectivity of teaching the fundamental lessons. The 5 topic areas are:

• Financial Psychology
• Budgeting, Savings & Investing
• Income, Career Business & Entrepreneurship
• Credit, Debt & Loans
• Risk Management & Insurance

The NFEC’s financial literacy curriculum bridges the gap between real-world application and educational standards. The lessons motivate participants to take action to improve their finances, helping them build a foundation that supports growth toward financial wellness.

The curriculum aligns with Common Core standards and has been used by universities as a for-credit course. Although the lesson plans are aligned with Common Core, the NFEC’s primary focus was creating usable exercises that will help students manage their finances better.

Throughout the NFEC coursework participants complete practical activities and take action on what they’ve learned. This practical application helps students form positive financial habits and set up the infrastructure they need to properly manage their finances now and in the future.

The financial literacy curriculum & presentations are designed in modular format to accommodate a variety of schedules and learning outcome goals. Material has been used as after-school programs, weekend workshops, camps, in-class training, lunch-and-learns, accredited college classes, and semester-long courses.

The modular design and clear organization gives you the freedom to choose the material that best aligns with your desired learning outcomes. Select from more than 400 hours of material, including PK – 2^nd grade, 3^rd – 5^th grade, 6^th – 8^th grade, high school, college, and adult.

The NFEC developed the Print on Demand Center (PODC) to provide organizations an easy, cost-effective way to reprint student guides. The PODC gives you the freedom to teach the lessons that will best serve your participants and provide them customized student guides, with just a push of the print button.

The PODC gives you access to the lessons you want to teach. Organized sections allow you to pull together unique presentations that fit the time and goals of your program and its stakeholders; or choose from among the NFEC’s pre-designed presentations. The PODC helps you provide timely lessons that help participants pick up the information that most interests them, while we help them gain broader personal financial skills.

The NFEC’s curriculum is designed around proven educational principles and tested by thousands of organizations that have implemented NFEC content. Comprehensive short and long-term testing measures immediate program impact and positive change in participants’ financial behaviors.

The curriculum employs evidence-based educational methods, including project-based learning, learner’s choice assignments, instructional scaffolding, simulation, blended learning, and other instructional methods proven to improve student outcomes. Many of these strategies are outlined in the Framework for Teaching Personal Finance.

Over the course of developing more than 400 hours of curriculum, the NFEC created a framework and standards which set national benchmarks. Leveraging a team of experts, feedback from hundreds of individual educators, and a review of existing standards and research, the NFEC developed the National Financial Literacy Framework & Standards.

The NFEC’s Curriculum Advisory Board and Curriculum Development team is comprised of award-winning educators, financial professionals, specialists from a variety of financially-related fields, and financial education experts. Together, the Curriculum Advisory Board has reviewed the personal financial statements of more than 50,000 people. This collaboration has resulted in financial literacy courses that successfully bridge the gap between theory-based education and practical application.

The NFEC also employs a crowdsourcing model to review feedback from the thousands of organizations that have utilized our material. This feedback has resulted in 4 iterations of the kids, teen, college and adult-level curricula over the last 8 years. Our commitment to consistently updating materials ensures that you have up-to-date, state-of-the-art curriculum.

The NFEC also has built in several levels of assessments to provide empirical evidence of learner outcomes. Self-assessments, pre and post-testing, surveys, and other data-gathering methods help you demonstrate the results on learner short-term outcomes and long-term behavior change. Visit the NFEC’s Financial Literacy Testing and Survey Center to see samples of measurement tools that come with all the curriculum packages.

The NFEC’s financial literacy curriculum is 100% independent and the organization’s sole purpose is to improve participants’ financial capabilities. No advertising, promotions, or product recommendations are contained in any of the NFEC’s material.

The curriculum has been approved by compliance departments in various financial service sectors and is guaranteed to pass your compliance department audit.

Other curricula on the market often indoctrinate students with company brand messaging that may not serve the best interests of your students – for example, credit card companies. While the NFEC appreciates the efforts of all organizations involved in the financial literacy movement, we also understand the persuasive influence of branding and advertising.

The NFEC is an independent financial literacy organization with a social enterprise business model. This structure gives us the freedom to deliver unbiased financial education and to assist organizations in need of support – reducing the time, cost, and personnel required to develop comprehensive financial literacy curriculum.

The NFEC sets industry standards for financial educators (Framework for Teaching Personal Finance) and learners (National Financial Literacy Framework & Standards) that are referenced by organizations around the globe. Our objective is to share benchmarks with the financial education industry and general public that help improve people’s financial capabilities.

To develop industry standards the NFEC collaborated with leaders in the education and personal finance industry, including:

Charlotte Danielson Consultants. To develop the Framework for Teaching Personal Finance the NFEC worked with Danielson Group consultants to modify the Framework for Teaching to meet the specific needs of Financial Education Instructors. The Framework for Teaching is the most widely-used teaching model in the United States, and has been adopted as the single model – or one of several approved models – in more than 20 states.

View the Framework for Teaching Personal Finance.

Dr Heidi Jacob’s Curriculum 21 Consultants. To develop the National Financial Literacy Framework & Standards the NFEC collaborated with Dr Ann Johnson, Director of Professional Development for Curriculum 21, because of her strong background in curriculum design and curriculum mapping. Curriculum 21’s assistance helped support the creation of performance-based assessments and curriculum maps aligned and integrated with the Common Core Standards.

View the National Financial Literacy Framework & Standards.

These innovations were funded through the NFEC Social Enterprise Fund and annual updates are planned. The Council’s objective is to develop the most comprehensive Framework available for educators and learners alike.