MoneySmart Teaching Online

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1 Introduction ASIC s provides educators with the knowledge, skills, strategies and teaching materials to teach consumer and financial literacy. It comprises two free modules for primary and secondary educators. The modules feature interactive professional learning with expert interviews, case studies in schools, and scenarios. Anyone is welcome to register in. Australian school educators are encouraged to complete the formal offline elements of the primary and secondary modules to gain recognition for undertaking Continuing Professional Development. However, learners may undertake only the online elements of the modules to simply gain an understanding of consumer and financial literacy education. For information about the MoneySmart Teaching initiative please visit the website at Learning schedule has been designed for flexible learning. Once registered, learners can complete a module at their own pace with online and offline elements undertaken to suit teaching programs. ASIC will check with learners their intention to complete a module on a semester basis. The schedule below is intended as a guide only. Activities Online elements Time allocation 1.0 to 1.5 hours Formal offline elements Before you start read the Learner guide and prepare documents Analyse student survey results and identify learning needs Review MoneySmart Teaching resources and identify a unit of work/digital resources Reflection activity and discussion with a colleague Complete action plan Assemble portfolio of work Total online and offline Optional activity 0.5 hour 1.5 hours 1.5 hours 1.0 hour 1.0 hour 1.0 hour 7.5 hours 4 plus hours Create a new unit of work including curriculum mapping 1

2 Before you start Use the following checklist before you undertake a module. Provide school principal or senior leader with letter outlining course (attached to this Learner guide) Print existing school curriculum documents/mapping Print existing relevant school units of work Ensure that you have access to a printer or a portable memory device such as a USB Gaining recognition For Australian school educators, is recognised as Continuing Professional Development. Educators who complete formal elements of this program will assemble a portfolio of work and receive a Certificate of Completion. Once the certificate is endorsed by their School Principal (or appropriate senior school leader) it can be submitted to the relevant state/territory authority and may count towards meeting the professional learning requirements for teacher registration and renewal. See the table of National Professional Standards for Teachers (attached to this Learner guide) and check how the modules align to the standards. Portfolio of work The portfolio should include evidence that you have undertaken the online elements and formal offline elements of the module. Use this portfolio when seeking endorsement of the Certificate of Completion from the School Principal (or appropriate school leader). The portfolio should include: completed module templates (school based curriculum audit, unit of work planner, unit of work reflection template) class survey analysis unit of work delivered to students examples of student work Certificate of Completion Learner help Please moneysmartteaching@asic.gov.au for all enquiries about. 2

3 Would you like to share? The MoneySmart Teaching Team is looking for consumer and financial literacy school case studies and new teaching resources created by Australian educators. If you are interested in sharing your work with other teachers please the team: Technical requirements PC or MAC with an internet access, (connection speed should be 5 MB or more), and a modern web browser. The officially supported web browsers are: Internet Explorer 8 and 9 (Windows) Firefox 4 and 10 (Windows) Google Chrome (Windows) Safari 5.05 (OS X) Firefox 10 (OS X) With the exception of Internet Explorer 10, most later versions of the above browsers will also work well, (but are not yet officially supported). 3

4 Alignment to National Professional Standards for Teachers Teacher completion of MoneySmart Online modules are aligned to the following National Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL). Standard Focus area description Professional knowledge Know students and how they learn Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students. Understand how students learn Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities Know the content and how to use it Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area Content selection and organisation Curriculum assessment and reporting Literacy and numeracy strategies Professional practice Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning Establish challenging learning goals Plan, structure and sequence learning programs Use teaching strategies Evaluate and improve teaching programs Engage parents/carers in the educative process Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning Assess student learning Report on student achievement Professional Engagement Engage in professional learning Engage in professional learning and improve practice 4

5 Engage with colleagues and improve practice Apply professional learning and improve student learning Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community Engage with the parents/carers Letter to principal Please provide the letter attached to your school principal or appropriate school leader to inform them of your registration in. The letter outlines the program and the requirements for the Portfolio of work. 5

6 Dear Principal, The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) provides, a free teacher professional learning program that is part of the MoneySmart Teaching initiative. ASIC s provides educators with the knowledge, skills, strategies and teaching materials to teach consumer and financial literacy. The modules provide interactive professional learning and feature expert interviews, case studies in schools, and scenarios. For more information about MoneySmart Teaching, including information on how to become a MoneySmart School, please visit:. For Australian school educators, is recognised as Continuing Professional Development. Educators who complete formal elements of this program will assemble a portfolio of work and receive a Certificate of Completion. Once the certificate is endorsed by their School Principal (or appropriate senior school leader) it can be submitted to the relevant state/territory authority and may count towards meeting the professional learning requirements for teacher registration and renewal. Your staff member will provide the following at the completion of the module: A Portfolio of work containing: completed module templates (school based curriculum audit, unit of work planner, unit of work reflection template) class survey analysis unit of work delivered to students examples of student work Certificate of Completion for endorsement Yours sincerely Peter Cuzner ASIC ACT Commissioner