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Empower & Inspire Students by Teaching Financial Literacy & Work Readiness in their Classrooms!
ORGANIZATION: Junior Achievement of Northern New England
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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4 people are interested
Junior Achievement (JA) of Northern New England is seeking volunteers to empower middle school students to be confident in their career paths and money management skills, by teaching JA's turnkey curriculum focused on financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship in their classrooms.
In this program, a volunteer is paired with a middle school classroom, and delivers one grade-level-specific JA lesson to the class for 45 minutes a week, for a period of 6 weeks. Volunteer delivery of these programs allows students to interact with a member of the business community around them, and learn from the personal and professional stories that the volunteer shares as they deliver the lessons.
JA of Northern New England staff train all volunteers and provide all of the lesson plans and materials to make the teaching process smooth and enjoyable for all volunteers. We are working with several middle schools in the Greater Boston area in which we will need to place volunteers starting in May - we look forward to hearing from you!
If volunteers would like to reach out directly to JA of Northern New England, please email Deirdre O'Connor Mitchell, Director of Programs, at doconnor@janewengland.org
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About Junior Achievement of Northern New England
Location:
400 Fifth Avenue, Suite 300, Waltham, MA 02451, US
Mission Statement
The mission of Junior Achievement (JA) is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. JA helps to prepare young people for the real world by teaching skills in financial literacy, workforce readiness and entrepreneurship. We reach our goals using trained, business and community volunteers to deliver curricula, and share personal and professional experiences with students. The hallmark of Junior Achievement efforts, these mentors inspire students by transforming JA lessons into truly relevant messages that connect what is learned in the classroom to actual life-situations.
Description
JA Worldwide is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about financial literacy, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurship through experiential, hands-on programs.
Junior Achievement programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.
JA’s unique approach allows volunteers from the community to deliver our curriculum while sharing their experiences with students. Embodying the heart of JA, our 382,637 classroom volunteers transform the key concepts of our lessons into a message that inspires and empowers students to believe in themselves, showing them they can make a difference in the world.
In 2012-2013 Junior Achievement of Northern New England reached over 38,000 students through the hard work of over 1,800 volunteers.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Multiple Greater Boston Area SchoolsBoston, MA 02119
DATE POSTED
April 4, 2017
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- General Education
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training
- 6 hours in total (45 mins per week for 6 weeks)
- Volunteers will likely need to submit CORI forms and photo IDs in order to volunteer at their school