JA Financial Literacy

JA Financial Literacy, part of the JA High School Experience courses, is a one-semester teacher-led course that equips high school students with foundational personal finance skills. These concepts include how to earn and save money; how to manage money by being a wise consumer and creating and using a budget; how to manage bank accounts, investments, and credit; how to assess risks and use insurance; and how to address financial problems like identity theft and debt.

Volunteers engage with students through a variety of activities that includes subject matter guest speaking and coaching or advising for case study and project course work.

Students will:

• Learn the necessary concepts applicable to state and national educational standards.

• Apply these standards-based concepts to the real world.

• Synthesize elective concepts through cumulative, tangible deliverables (projects).

• Analyze a business situation or principle through the use of a case study.

• Demonstrate the skills necessary for future career pathway success.