Savings Banks SchoolService

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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
  Germanys 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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This is the Savings Banks SchoolService

• 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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This is the Savings Banks SchoolService

• 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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This is the Savings Banks SchoolService
The SchoolService
Provides support with its materials
A range of subjects
Various teaching and learning principles
Various curriculumsubjects
In the past 20 years relaxation of the ban on
advertising at schools Sponsoring is permitted
in all of Germanys federal states
No advertising is contained in the materials!
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This is the Savings Banks SchoolService
Materials
Updating of materials
Expansion of the range of materials
Content and design are continually updated
Current topics New topics
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This is the Savings Banks SchoolService

• 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
The information platform 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

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Now is the time for action!
Savings Banks SchoolService German Business
Founders Award for Pupils

• 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

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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This is the Savings Banks SchoolService

• 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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This is the Savings Banks SchoolService
The Financial Passport has been included in the
compass of materials for consumer education and
the SSS materials have been rated as very good
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
Thank you for your attention
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