Students to engage in identifying financial skills

Alphonse said the program will assist students to be financial literates
Alphonse said the program will assist students to be financial literates

Eight primary schools in Dominica will benefit from a programme geared at helping students to identify their financial skills and the important resources that they would need to develop to be engaged in a global world.

The programme dubbed, ‘Junior Achievement (JA) Our Nation WIZ KID’ is being sponsored by CashWiz Dominica in collaboration with Junior Achievement Dominica.

Sixteen to 20 teachers will also be a part of the programme.

Some of the schools participating in the programme are St Luke’s Primary, Convent Preparatory, Newtown Primary, Goodwill Primary and Massacre Primary.

The organizers are anticipating that follow-up sessions will be done with the St Martin Primary and some of the other schools like the Seventh Day Adventist where training will be done with teachers so that they could implement the programme.

Speaking at the launching and trainee event held at the National Development Foundation of Dominica (NDFD) conference room on Wednesday, Manager of CashWiz, Linthea Alphonse, said the company is a regional one and she hopes that the initiative becomes a regional one as well.

Alphonse said the focus is actually to teach the importance of wise decision making and to get the students involved in positive decision making.

“When you think of it, this is what is going to affect their future and becoming more financially literate is one of the main things we are going to teach our children today,” she said. “The programme is going to help the children to identify jobs that they can start to earn and make money for themselves. Not just depending on other businesses to just become employed by someone else.”

According to her, Cash Wiz is proud to play an active part of the programme because, “We believe that the initiative brings positive investment for the schools, students and educators involved.”

Some of the key skills to be taught include: active listening, analysis, applying information, brainstorming, chart data, compare and contrast, computation, critical thinking, deductive reasoning, decision making, drawing, evaluating data, mind mapping, following written and verbal instructions, group work, problem solving, recording deposits and withdrawals, role playing, self-assessment, taking turns, teamwork and vocabulary building.

“All of this plays an active part in the students’ lives,” Alphonse noted

Meantime, Executive Director of Junior Achievement Dominica, Natasha Yeeloy-Labad, said following the programme, students will understand that businesses need people with skills and they will learn about entrepreneurship and the different types of resources needed in business production.

“The impact of global competition on business needs for employees and production materials will also be discussed and one of the things that is increasingly being promoted is the awareness of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills,” she stated.

Labad further explained that there will be a  “grand meet” on April 15.

“We will have representatives from each of the participating schools join us at the UWI Open Campus and we will have a series of questions which the kids will need to answer successfully and we will crown one of our students the WIZ Kid 2015,” she said.

Junior Achievement is a non-profit organization specifically set up here in Dominica to address the needs of students in the areas of entrepreneurship, financial literacy and skills for the workforce.

Some of the teachers at the function
Some of the teachers at the function

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1 Comment

  1. Duncekyat
    March 4, 2015

    Congratulations on a wonderful initiative. I wish all involved much success in achieving the goals of the program. If only we could get government officials to engage in a new program called “Identifying Economic Skills”. Now that would be something!

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