Dollar Works 2 is a comprehensive personal financial education program. Use the easy-to-use tools to move learners from practicing "concepts" to taking action in their own lives.
This curriculum includes:
- A binder with all printed instructor materials.
- An easy-to-use CD with dozens of Action pages (handouts). All Action pages have been culturally adapted for English- and Spanish-speaking audiences.
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Contents
Introducing Dollar Works 2 (PDF)
Being successful with Dollar Works 2
- How to use Dollar Works 2 (PDF)
- Hints for success
- How people learn (PDF)
- Using a teaching outline
Assessing learner skills
- Measuring money skills
- Learner feedback and evaluation
Making money decisions
- Unit 1 — Connecting culture and financial resources
- Unit 2 — Making decisions about money
Building money management skills
- Unit 3 — Making a spending plan
- Unit 4 — Managing a spending plan
- Unit 5 — Saving and investing
Managing income and bank accounts
- Unit 6 — Understanding a pay statement and taxes
- Unit 7 — Using a bank account
Understanding credit and debt
- Unit 8 — Using credit wisely
- Unit 9 — Managing debt
Targeting money issues
- Unit 10 — Managing risk with insurance
- Unit 11 — Solving consumer problems
- Unit 12 — Teaching children about money
Appendix
- Selected internet financial education resources in Spanish
- Selected internet financial education resources in multiple languages
- Bibliography
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BuyThis curriculum was developed in 2009 by Extension family resource management educators Shirley J. Anderson-Porisch (emeritus), Rosemary K. Heins (emeritus), Cindy M. Petersen (emeritus), and Susan E. Hooper (emeritus); and Extension family social science specialist and professor Jean W. Bauer