Thinking Foundation and Teaching Financial Education Group
WHAT WE DO:
Thinking Foundation (see video presentation by David Hyerle, founder of Thinking Foundation, below) works in collaboration with the Teaching Financial Education Group to utilize and support the use of visual tools and other approaches to the development of students’ cognitive and critical thinking abilites
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thus to deliver financial literacy instruction into the classroom at all grade levels. Learning in K-16 classrooms needs to advance the understanding of finances through relative lessons with brain-based tools to help formulate a behavior for well-being.
Learning financial literacy is strongly associated with our abilities to think through complex and often emotional issues and problems and this can be facilitated through developing students’ cognitive abilities.
Our pedagogical focus is to integrate visual tools with instructional materials:
- Thinking and learning
- integrating content and process
- professional development through an active, project-based approach for effective learning
- financial literacy instruction in our nation’s public schools.
The Thinking Foundation’s focus on grounded research and usage of visual tools helps transform information into knowledge. Visual tools and dispositions for thinking (Habits of Mind) help to promote a higher order of thinking to develop a “thinking learner” who will be able to make better actionable use of financial literacy concepts.
The Teaching Financial Education group is collaborating with the Thinking Foundation to enhance teaching methodologies with universities and local school districts to implement the use of these visual tools throughout the K-16 learning spectrum to improve lifelong financial well-being for Americans.
Download an overview on using visual tools for financial literacy that accompanies the presentation in on the video clips below.
Reasearch on Financial Literacy: Financial Literacy among the Young: Evidence and Implications for Consumer Policy. Download the research (2010).
Read Education Secretary Arne Duncan's recommendations for improving Americans' financial literacy though education and training programs in a Wall Street Journal article. The article is also downloadable as a pdf file.
David Hyerle: Thinking Maps and Financial Literacy
Part 1
David Hyerle: Thinking Maps and Financial Literacy
Part 2
David Hyerle: Thinking Maps and Financial Literacy
Part 3
Download an overview on using visual tools for financial literacy that accompanies the presentation in on the video clips.
Reasearch on Financial Literacy: Financial Literacy among the Young: Evidence and Implications for Consumer Policy. Download the research (2010).
Read Education Secretary Arne Duncan's recommendations for improving Americans' financial literacy though education and training programs in a Wall Street Journal article. The article is also downloadable as a pdf file.
WHAT WE OFFER:
Research and Develop and Implement news tools for learning financial literacy concepts
The Thinking Foundation along with the Teaching Financial Education group applies the use of visual tools to materials so that the information may be delivered to students designed to encourage thinking about the materials they learn. We have support from teacher, administrative, school board, and parent organizations in our mission to help integrate the financial literacy learning concepts into an already crowded school day.
Research and Development of materials for the Center for Teaching Financial Literacy
A primary goal of the Center is to ensure financial capability as an outcome to those we serve. Thinking Foundation along with the Teaching Financial Education group are working to assess and apply visual tools to content so that the information may be delivered to students in a format that is designed to encourage thinking about the materials they use to learn. The Center will help formulate alliances with major entities, including financial institutions, national non-profit organizations, community-and consumer-based groups, and federal, state and local agencies to help deliver more effective financial education into the classroom.
Informational Forums
Thinking Foundation partners with the Teaching Financial Education group to conduct regional forums for community stakeholders who have an interest in financial education. The forums help build knowledge bases for community action and help collect data about stakeholder’s willingness to support the inclusion of financial literacy in public schools.
WHAT WE NEED:
The Foundation and the Teaching Financial Education group welcomes input from content developers and universities interested in helping research, develop and implement strategies for the teaching of financial literacy.
WHAT’S NEW:
University Partnership for a Center for the Teaching of Financial Literacy
Thinking Foundation, Teaching Financial Education group, are developing a project involving a major New York University to create a Center for the Teaching of Financial Literacy. The Center will serve pre service, and graduate students as well as neighborhood groups’ work on financial literacy.
Newsletter
Keep an eye open for a TeachingFinancialLiteracy.com newsletter that will serve the k-16 learning community.
Jumpstart: www.jumpstart.org
Contact Information:
Dr. Gerald Lauber
Thinking Foundation
144 Goose Pond Road
Lyme NH 03768
www.thinkingfoundation.org
GeraldLauber@ThinkingFoundation.org
GLauber@TeachingFinancialEducation.com