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Helping young people be MoneySmart

Parent/Carer Workshop: Parents/carers as partners in learning

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Money Makes the World Go Around

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Focus questions

• What are the issues and challenges that you are confronted with as your children grow up and engage with the world as consumers?

• What do you wish your children knew more about or could do better in relation to their consumer behaviour or money management?

• What support can you offer classroom teachers in this area?

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MoneySmart Teaching

What is it?

• MoneySmart Teaching is a comprehensive strategy to develop consumer and financial literacy capabilities in young Australians.

• The strategy builds teacher capacity, both professionally and personally, enabling them to teach young people about money.

• MoneySmart Teaching features a variety of teaching resources including ready to use units of work and digital activities based around real life learning contexts.

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• Being MoneySmart is a core life skill in the

twenty-first century

• Being MoneySmart builds financial health and wellbeing

• You are never too young to be MoneySmart

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MoneySmart Teaching Key Messages

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MoneySmart Teaching and our school

• Our school’s commitment• Desired outcomes• Parent/carer involvement

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A word from Paul Clitheroe

Chairman, Australian Government Financial Literacy Board

Changing world of consumerism

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Resources for Parents

• As parents, you are the first teachers of your children.• You play a major role in helping them make informed decisions about

money• You have already introduced them to ideas about money

Resources:• Raising MoneySmart Kids• Mobile Phone activities• Families• MoneySmart Rookie

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Concluding messages

• Talk to your children• Talk to your child’s teacher• Help with home study tasks• Get involved• Visit the MoneySmart Teaching website • Visit the MoneySmart website for consumers