| The NEFE High
School Financial Planning Program®
2007 Revised Curriculum
The NEFE High School Financial Planning Program®
(HSFPP) was created to (1) educate high school students about
sound money management skills and the financial planning process,
and (2) help teens begin to develop positive behaviors that
are necessary to attaining financial maturity and achieving
a secure future. The National Endowment for Financial Education®
(NEFE®) offers the HSFPP in partnership with Cooperative
State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA, and
participating Land-Grant University Cooperative Extension
Services and the Credit Union National Association, Inc. (CUNA),
and America's Credit Unions.
The program provides a number of practical
advantages.
- Proven to Work. This program
is built around a methodology and philosophy that have been
proven in independent studies to change students' knowledge,
actions, and self-confidence related to money.
- Free. All of the HSFPP materials
are available without charge or shipping costs (all materials)
to high schools and other organizations throughout the United
States.
- Turnkey. The program is
designed for easy classroom implementation.
- Flexible. It is designed
to be completed in as few as 16 classroom hours or over
longer or shorter periods of time if desired.
- Noncommercial. The HSFPP
is strictly educational in nature with no product recommendations
and nothing to sell.
- Technology Links. This program
is current with today's technology. While the print curriculum
stands on its own, it is complemented and integrated with
a suite of Web sites that will provide an ever-growing body
of learning opportunities for students, teachers, and parents.
The HSFPP Curriculum
The NEFE HSFPP consists of several component parts both in
print and on the Internet that are designed to work together.
The print classroom materials can be used independently of
the Internet resources, but schools with the ability to use
both media will be able to provide a deeper experience for
students.
- Student Guide. All students
receive a copy of the 128-page Student Guide. These guides
are intended to remain the students' property, so teachers
will want to order student guides every time the course
is taught. Student guides may be ordered in whatever quantity
needed for each class.
- Instructor's Manual. Teachers
are provided with this Instructor's Manual, which contains
all of the resources that are needed to become acquainted
with the course and how to teach it. The Instructor's Manual
also contains hard copies of all the supplementary materials
referenced in each of the seven units.
- Supplementary Materials CD.
This program comes with a supplementary CD, which contains
electronic versions of all the supplementary materials.
It also includes presentation visuals and other resources
that will prove helpful in teaching the program in your
classroom.
- Presentation Visuals (PDF
and PowerPoint®).The HSFPP comes complete with presentation
visuals in PowerPoint® and PDF (for transparencies or
handouts) formats for effective use in the classroom.
- Web Sites. Web sites
are available for use with the program. The sites can be
reached from the same Web address, hsfpp.nefe.org, the HSFPP
home page. The menu in the upper right-hand corner leads
you to different Web sites within the HSFPP portal
.
- Instructor's Web Site.
As a HSFPP instructor, you can gain access to the Instructor's
Web site, where you will be able to order materials
online. You also will find an ever-growing body of learning
tools, articles, and resources to enhance and build
on the classroom experience you want to achieve with
your students. On that site, you can sign up to participate
in an E-zine that will keep you advised of all new program
features, content, and enhancements.
- Student's Web Site.
Students will have a Web site of their own where they
can access articles, tools, and games that can take
their HSFPP learning to higher level and move them toward
practicing the behaviors the program teaches.
- Parent's Web Site. Here
parents have an opportunity to play a role in helping
reinforce the units teachers are using in the classroom.
This Web site will contain a continually growing body
of educational tools for parents to use with their teens
in achieving this goal.
National and State
Standards and the HSFPP Curriculum
The competencies and objectives of the NEFE HSFPP have been
correlated to educational standards in all 50 states and several
national subject-area standards. These crosswalks are available
on the HSFPP Instructor's Web site, which can be reached at
hsfpp.nefe.org.
NEFE HSFPP Educational Approach
Three learning concepts are built into the curriculum.
- The Four-Phase Learning Process,
which moves a student from inquiring to gathering and processing,
and finally to applying the skills, knowledge, and attitudes
that they have learned.
- Competency-Based Learning,
the goal is to provide students with the tools needed to
perform each the core competencies.
- Continuous Learning, a variety
of opportunities is provided for students to use what they
learned outside the classroom.
Student Performance
Each unit has several assignments and at least one assessment
with required criteria design to evaluate students' ability
to apply what has been learned. The assignment and assessment
guides provide the educator with a method for evaluating the
students' performance and a means to provide learners with
feedback on their performance.
Ordering the High School
Financial Planning Program
The curriculum may be ordered online at hsfpp.nefe.org
- Click on "instructors" in the upper-hand
corner of the HSFPP Home Page. The instructor login page
will appear.
- Once you have logged into
the instructor's site, look for the materials ordering section.
If you don't already have an instructor's account, you can
sign up for access at the same place.
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