Teaching children how to earn and spend money will cement financial literacy throughout the learning cycle.
In creating learning peace, everyone must play a role in students' educational lives so that the burden is not solely on teachers. Parents, teachers, and educationists should support government education programs that ensure all children attend school to achieve learning for lasting peace. Developing countries, such as Uganda, have implemented various initiatives to promote education equality for all. At the same time, there are programs to ensure that all school-age children have access to education. Parents in rural areas only sometimes encourage their children to attend school, stifling young people's dreams of receiving their right to an education.
Role-players
Parents should be willing to support their children in studying effectively, such as breakfast and lunch, so students can enhance concentration and better understand and perform at school. Parents who refuse to send their children to school might face legal consequences to improve a higher national level of education.
Teachers' incentives should be revised occasionally to ensure they remain committed to their profession. These may only sometimes be monetary, but initiatives such as staff homes in rural areas where teachers can live and provide better teaching services to students. Teachers in rural areas often live miserable lives, reflected in the classroom.
The gender balance
The level of education among men and women needs to be higher. Girls drop out of school far more frequently than boys, and the situation is worse in rural areas of the country. In Uganda, 30% of girls leave school before entering secondary school. One way to rectify the problem is to make various options for skilling children available by embracing Business Technical Vocational and Education Training (BTVET) institutions. This will equip them with skills to help them start their own business and live a more comfortable life. Teachers should perceive these students with dignity rather than dismiss them as failures. Students who have been grounded in BTVET skills have been seen to be easily employed or able to start businesses.
The learning environment
Teachers must embrace technological changes, learner upbringing, and environmental status to cope with the world these students are exposed to from a young age.
It is advised that the pedagogical curriculum should incorporate customer service skills. When learners are allowed to express their concerns, they feel valued and confident. Such platforms must be available to ensure a positive learning environment.
Both privately and publicly owned schools must have the appropriate and necessary infrastructure. School infrastructure is critical, and the government should invest more in education.
Learning about money
Financial literacy education should be promoted at all levels of education. Ideally, it should begin at home. Teaching children how to earn and spend money will cement financial literacy throughout the learning cycle. Relevant government councils should adopt and support practical financial literacy curriculums so that basic skills such as saving, record keeping, budgeting, customer service, and marketing are incorporated as early as possible into children's lives. Easy ways to accomplish this is by establishing demonstration farms, laboratories, or classrooms where teachers teach the talk.
Parents, teachers, and educationists should support government education programs that ensure all children attend school to achieve learning for lasting peace.
Article submitted by Hellen Namawejje
