Savings Banks SchoolService

www.Sparkassen-SchulService.de

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This is the Savings Banks SchoolService

Savings banks and schools - a partnership with tradition

The background:

• Since their establishment, savings banks have had a public mission: to actively support economic education and educating children to save.

• To this day, the savings banks’ social responsibility and their mission in society have been anchored in the Savings Banks Acts of Germany’s federal states and in the charters of savings banks.

• Savings banks support schools in a variety of ways within the framework of their local Savings Banks SchoolService commitment.

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Materials available – approx. 100 different media:

• Print media, videos, periodicals, PC programmes

• For pupils, teachers, parents

• For all types of school and all grades

Coordinated with relevant curricula and educational standards

• Software

• E-learning

• Simulation games

• Brochures

• Slide sets

• DVDs

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Range of subjects/topics:

• Primary school (age group: 6-10 years)• Numeracy and first contact with money• Introduction to the monetary & economic system• Sciences & environmental studies• Road safety education

• Lower secondary level (age group: 11-16 years)• Upper secondary level (age group: 16-19 years)

• Financial and banking system• Economic and social policy• Career choices• World of work and training

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No advertising is containedin the materials!

A range ofsubjects

Various teachingand learning

principles

Variouscurriculumsubjects

The SchoolService

Provides support with its materials

In the past 20 years: relaxation of the ban on advertising at schools

Sponsoring is permitted in all of Germany’s federal states

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Updatingof materialsUpdating

of materialsExpansion of the range of materials

Expansion of the range of materials

Materials Materials

Content and designare continually updated

Content and designare continually updated

Current topicsNew topics

Current topicsNew topics

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Savings banks in Germany

• receive the materials from DSV

• and pass them on to schools

• in some cases free of charge

• in other cases for a fee

In many cases:

• Savings banks establish a budget for schools

• Budget depends on the number of pupils

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Savings Banks SchoolService: The “Financial Passport”

A “concept for competent financial education”

• Consistent media for all school grades

• Self-contained, individual modules

• Full lesson plans

• Integrated exercises

• Final tests geared to specific target groups with award of certificates

The National Committee included the Financial Pass-port as an official measure in the catalogue of the National Action Plan for the UN Decade Education for Sustainable Development.

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Savings Banks SchoolService: The Financial Passport

Target groups of the financial passport

• Primary school

• Lower secondary level

• Upper secondary level

• Both secondary levels

Application options

• in regular lessons

• in project lessons

• in afternoon lessons

• in “buddy” programmes at all-day schools

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Savings Banks SchoolService: The Website for Teachers

www.sparkassen-schulservice.de

• Up-to-date information on the savings banks’ school activities

• Tips and content for preparing

and structuring lessons

• Monthly newsletter for teachers

www.sparkassen-schulservice.de

The information platform for teachers

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Now is the time for action!

• Pupils learn to think like entrepreneurs

• Over 55,000 participants

since 1999

• In cooperation with ministries of education

and educational foundations

• Used as a measure to complement the

curriculum

Savings Banks SchoolService: German Business Founders Award for Pupils

www.deutscher-gruenderpreis.de/schueler

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Savings Banks SchoolService: Stock Market Learning

Online competition for pupils and students

www.planspiel-boerse.de

• Provides a basic knowledge of economics

• Provides an insight into the workings of the stock market

• Fosters teamwork

• International competition with seven participating countries

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UNESCO Award Winner

Within the framework of the UNESCO project “Education for Sustainable Development”, the Savings Banks SchoolService and its materials have received several awards.

Received the Comenius EduMedia Seal

Many of the materials have been given the Comenius Seal for didactic multimedia products of outstanding pedagogical value, content and design.

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The Financial Passport has been included in the compass of materials for consumer education and the SSS materials have been rated as very good

This is the Savings Banks SchoolService

http://www.verbraucherbildung.de/materialkompass.html

Prepared by the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) on behalf of the German Ministry of Food, Agriculture andConsumer Protection

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Savings Banks SchoolService

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