Building a Better Future Curriculum

With the support of the National Endowment for Financial Education—NEFE, the Credit Union has developed a bilingual curriculum that can be used by organizations and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers to teach basic money management concepts.

There are two versions, one for students and one for teachers. The information is organized in six chapters that deal with the following themes: savings and checking accounts, budgets, credit history, car purchases, home purchases, and income taxes. Copies of these chapters can be downloaded in Spanish and english. (You will need Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader. You can download it for free.)

• Introduction
• Unit 1: How to Use a Financial Institution
• Unit 2: How to Increase My Savings and Write a Budget
• Unit 3: How to Use Credit
• Unit 4: How to Buy a Car
• Unit 5: How to Buy a Home
• Unit 6: Introduction to Taxes

—TEACHER'S EDITION—

• Introduction
• Unit 1: How to Use a Financial Institution
• Unit 2: How to Increase My Savings and Write a Budget
• Unit 3: How to Use Credit
• Unit 4: How to Buy a Car
• Unit 5: How to Buy a Home
• Unit 6: An Introduction to Taxes
• Evaluation
• Resources