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Answer: CFPB out with a report that defines the goal of financial education to provide “financial well-being.” So, how to define financial well-being?
As I think about the approach that Next Gen Personal Finance has taken to personal finance education, I find it matches well with the skills required to gain financial ability:
By putting the student in the driver seat for WebQuests, activities and performance tasks, we teach them how to find reliable information, what methods to use to compare alternatives and finally how to execute on their decisions.
I found the final two paragraphs also useful in showing the various forces at work in the decision-making process:
Based on our framework of factors that influence financial well-being, to make it likely that a person will accomplish something, a person needs to:
The CFPB also puts a pitch in for “experiential learning” and just-in-time learning too:
All ways of gaining knowledge are not equally powerful. Experiential learning and just-in-time learning, in the sense of being immediately decision-relevant, are likely to be far more powerful ways for people to gain functional skills than financial learning encountered without any immediate applicability. Finally, informal influences are tremendously important to most people’s financial lives. With or without a financial practitioner to use as a resource, people overwhelmingly get most of both their factual and their normative knowledge about financial topics from their family, their friends, and their community.
Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.
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