Educate children through direct experiences | Part 24

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Direct experiences are undoubtedly one of the best learning strategies that favor the development of skills to train capable, independent and autonomous people.

These experiences allow research and free experimentation, increasing the desire to learn, giving way to overcome the obstacles that arise, becoming a stimulator for learning.

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Direct experience in the visit to the bank.

It is a unique experience that encourages savings, allowing students to generate habits of awareness, contributing to maintain a sense of responsibility. When directly experienced, this helps to have a clear vision of how to act and even how to make correct decisions.

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Students can learn when to make a long or medium term investment, according to the generated learning. They will be able through educational practices to manage the methods to generate interests that are of benefit in daily life. This visit to the bank will let you see for yourselves, what it offers to have a reservation plan, being a help strategy that will eventually reap great benefits.

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Objectives of the visit to the bank.

• Instruct in aspects of financial education.
• Promote the value of money without forgetting the importance of knowing how to manage it.
• Generate the habit of good use of finances.
• Reinforce learning through direct experience.

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Function that the educator must exercise so that the experience in the banking entity is enriching of knowledge.

The educator before the direct experience, must provide information on the financial issue, making known what is the saving, the purpose for which it is made, its importance and the benefits that imply a good use of reason. It is necessary to stimulate students to education in terms of personal benefit, since it will determine the way forward in the future, through the role played and represented by money, for its use to some extent.

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Learning activities visiting the bank as direct experience.

It is a unique opportunity to live directly the life that adults lead. Be able to take on the responsibilities they face constantly, know what happens, when they stop to think before acting, to make sensible decisions.

Through this educational experience, you will understand that doors open to knowledge and learning.

Activities to be carried out:

Learning in the bank. A brief welcome speech where the importance of learning to value money and how it contributes to the restructuring of a better country is mentioned. Students will know how to save to enable success, showing evidence of what the bank can help with the savings.

Students must comply with all the steps that are carried out faithfully in the bank to access correctly and without interruption to daily operations, experiencing what it means to have responsibilities. They will assume responsibility for what it means to mature in the educational process.

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Secure access option, (save objects). It is the first step that takes place when entering the bank, since it is necessary to keep the belongings that are not obligatory to perform the relevant and usual functions of the process that is carried out for the documentation, the deposit, withdrawal of money or other paperwork that includes the framework of banking procedures.

The banks comply with a strict series of steps to enter the room where all the financial processes are carried out, and it is necessary to comply with them, maintaining: cell phones, hats, weapons, food, among others, which are part of the list, in the place of the objects, for a safe access.

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Plan to access money funds. In compliance with the provisions of the bank, students will take the necessary steps to comply with the provisions to have the opportunity to be a potential client of the entity.

Each child will open an account that will make him creditor and responsible for his investments. They will also have a savings book or checkbook for the purposes that will be carried out in the bank. This activity is for the purpose of creating students who understand what happens in reality and how the consequences of decisions are assumed. Be able to take responsibility for their actions, learn to save, keep accounts of expenses, take into account the meaning of money to acquire and be favorable in the aspects of luxury and personal assistance.

The guide of the group together with the educator, have the duty to make it clear that it is the students' responsibility the funds that are there and that they must think at the moment of wanting to spend, which is the most appropriate, if they should be careful. for future savings or spend without worries. The intention is to generate a sense of responsibility at all times.

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Deposit of funds. An enriching and learning experience that is only achieved by doing it by itself, evidencing the results that this will bring in the medium or long term. Achieving the incentive for the proper use of reason, urging students to understand the value of money in daily use and the benefit that can be derived.

The children will act judiciously, making the steps for the first deposit in their accounts. This will be satisfying and exciting to know how to manage, reinforcing the basic knowledge acquired in school, such as: counting, adding, subtracting and dividing.

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Retreat experience. Once the deposit step has been completed, it is necessary to perform the procedure for the withdrawal option. It is a way for them to learn how to complete withdrawal forms, which leads to writing correctly and identifying amounts, it is important to be able to access their money. The students will know the balance in favor in the account and can increase the number reflected there, to use it in something that merits its use.

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ATM withdrawal. In this part you must be very strict, notifying the importance of being cautious at the time of a withdrawal. Students should always be alert to: not show their password to the public, be discreet to withdraw, not involve another person at the time of performing operations, thus preventing the occurrence of any unwanted eventuality.

The cashier option is fast, and for its use it is necessary to know how to read and count so that the operations are a success.

All the activities that will be carried out in the bank have a purpose and within them is to call awareness, the use of reason, create students capable of managing, provide security for activities, assume responsibilities so that in future actions they are capable of work correctly.

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Activities to do in the classroom after finishing the direct experience in the bank.

It is mandatory to know how the students have felt, to help them in the points where they are still with a bit of confusion, since this will bring favorable results to the adaptation process with the acquired responsibility, having a positive result.

The educator to address again the issue of the bank and the proper use of money, will request the realization of an exhibition that contains the most significant points, expressing, in addition, how makes them feel part of a bank and how they would use the money saved, of this way students will have a clearer vision of what money is and what they want to achieve with it.

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Education by direct experience is based on teaching through the lived reality, increasing the development of the skills that are important in the actions that will be executed.

Greetings educators and motivators of education

@SteemitEducation	@Edu-Venezuela

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