Developing Financial Literacy
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About these resources
These resources were developed for use in 'The Financial Literacy Program - Leading Change to Gain Financial Independence'. As part of this program, the learning and teaching guide, resources and tools found on this website were utilised in a number of accredited and pre-accredited courses for adults learners.
Curriculum links
To link the content of the financial literacy program with existing accredited course curriculum items, mapping documents and further assessment and learning tools have been created. Click on the curriculum/program tabs of interest to find out more.
Developing Financial Literacy - core resource program guide
The program guide contains lesson plans and teaching and learning resources separated into 4 units on different financial Literacy topics:
1. Banking
2. Budgeting
3. Loans, and
4. Financial Options
To download this document, click on the 'Download' button in the menu to the right.
Intended audience
These resources have been developed for use with adult learners who possess a range of language, literacy and numeracy skills. Learning activities have been labelled to indicate the LLN skill levels required using the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). Resources include highly visial tools such as simple readers with pictures, cartoons and videos (for use with students who posess lower-level English reading skills), and exploratory research tasks (for use with students who posess higher-level English reading skills).