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Cheryl W
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What made you decide to undertake a tax based programme and specifically the Part of something bigger kit for your students? I was looking at social studies and financial literacy for Year 9 and 10 stduents.
If you were to re use this resource in the future, how would you see yourself doing this? (Eg, as a full unit, separately in other units of work, integrating into cross curricular lesson plans) I would integrate this unit into other units of work working with other teachers to be able to use the resource to its fullest capacity.
How effective was the Melani interactive in increasing your students' understanding of tax?
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How would you rate the change in your own understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? Logic puzzle
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit grabbed the attention of your students and engaged them the most? Logic puzzle - although the students found it too hard to do
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
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“Part of something was a good resource but was not a resource that I found captivated my students enough :(”
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Posted 4 weeks ago
Anna T
Verified Reviewer
What made you decide to undertake a tax based programme and specifically the Part of something bigger kit for your students? looking to use it to help build financial Literacy in our senior students before they leave school
If you were to re use this resource in the future, how would you see yourself doing this? (Eg, as a full unit, separately in other units of work, integrating into cross curricular lesson plans) I probably wouldn't get this one again as it doesn't quiet suit our needs at this time
How effective was the Melani interactive in increasing your students' understanding of tax?
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How would you rate the change in your own understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? Many of the resources and links were good, perhaps didn't have the time in class to explore those as much as we would have liked due to time constraints
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit grabbed the attention of your students and engaged them the most? kids liked working through the pay slip and character building sheets and then looking at how that impacted their budgeting
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
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“We orginially ordered the kit thinking it could be useful for our senior students and looking at finacial literacy duirng our wananga time, as we have been looking at different life skills. Once the box arrived it wasn't quiet what we expected and we weren't able to use to the full extend that we intended. The resources themselves were fab and clearly a lot of time and thought had gone into it but it didn't quiet fit the bill for us for that particular area we wanted it to.”
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Posted 2 months ago
Anonymous
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What made you decide to undertake a tax based programme and specifically the Part of something bigger kit for your students? the government deciding we needed to teach more financial literacy in social studies
If you were to re use this resource in the future, how would you see yourself doing this? (Eg, as a full unit, separately in other units of work, integrating into cross curricular lesson plans) most likely as a full unit or at least into a financial literacy unit.
How effective was the Melani interactive in increasing your students' understanding of tax?
Not at all effective
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Very effective
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
No change
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Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? melani interactive as this really helped my students to understand tax systems
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
No change
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Which part/s of the kit grabbed the attention of your students and engaged them the most? the interactive parts
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
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“The students really enjoyed this kit and all the different elements of it. I liked the variety of activties within it.”
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Posted 2 months ago
Shannon P
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What made you decide to undertake a tax based programme and specifically the Part of something bigger kit for your students? Relevant to their own life experiences
If you were to re use this resource in the future, how would you see yourself doing this? (Eg, as a full unit, separately in other units of work, integrating into cross curricular lesson plans) We would possibly be more cross curricular if we did this again. We taught it as a stand alone unit this year.
How effective was the Melani interactive in increasing your students' understanding of tax?
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Very effective
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
No change
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Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? The interactive
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit grabbed the attention of your students and engaged them the most? The interactive and the supermarket activity - they enjoyed developing their characters
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
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“This kit provided a useful insight into real world living and the role of tax in our society.”
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Posted 2 months ago
Marie C
Verified Reviewer
What made you decide to undertake a tax based programme and specifically the Part of something bigger kit for your students? Followed on from "Dear 13 year old me" Unit.
If you were to re use this resource in the future, how would you see yourself doing this? (Eg, as a full unit, separately in other units of work, integrating into cross curricular lesson plans) Aspects of it were good and could be incorporated into the Systems of Government Unit I teach or into aspects of Careers Unit
How effective was the Melani interactive in increasing your students' understanding of tax?
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How would you rate the change in your own understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? The posters with where taxes are spent. The tax calculating website. Filling out a payslip
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit grabbed the attention of your students and engaged them the most? Creating a character
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
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“The start of this Unit was fine. Students enjoyed developing a character, but it was interesting that despite my frequent challenges, most students created characters that had either a major mental or physical health disability or both. Linking their characters' experiences to tax spending was difficult, and they needed lots of support to make connections. Completing the payslips went smoothly, as I modelled how to use the tax website first and they all had no trouble after that. I never went into taxes and business or developing a new tax system as I knew I would have to move extra slow for them to understand and we didn't have the time. Instead, I focused on discussion on how the tax system reflects society's values and what would be the consequences of not spending or reducing taxes in areas such as education, healthcare, and justice. Deciding where to spend taxes was beyond the majority of my class as they are still working out what government departments there are and what they do.”
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Posted 3 months ago
Anonymous
Verified Reviewer
What made you decide to undertake a tax based programme and specifically the Part of something bigger kit for your students? We teach our older students about functional maths and this was an awesome addition to our program teaching them about money and life after school.
If you were to re use this resource in the future, how would you see yourself doing this? (Eg, as a full unit, separately in other units of work, integrating into cross curricular lesson plans) I would use as a full unit again.
How effective was the Melani interactive in increasing your students' understanding of tax?
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Somewhat effective
Very effective
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
No change
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Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? It was all really great. I think the easy to follow structure was the best.
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit grabbed the attention of your students and engaged them the most? Having practical resources to use and look at.
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
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“Great kit. Was really easily adaptable for our Special Education class. Awesome materials and structured and really easy to follow and teach.”
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Posted 3 months ago
Richard S
Verified Reviewer
What made you decide to undertake a tax based programme and specifically the Part of something bigger kit for your students? It is an important topic and the resources looked like a great way to engage kids in something that is not always seen as "sexy".
If you were to re use this resource in the future, how would you see yourself doing this? (Eg, as a full unit, separately in other units of work, integrating into cross curricular lesson plans) As a full unit but with greater embellishment of parts of it to take greater advantage of the build up to get more payoff.
How effective was the Melani interactive in increasing your students' understanding of tax?
Not at all effective
Somewhat effective
Very effective
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? I am not sure really. It was all really good for understanding elements of the system (with limited work on tax collection and who pays). I think the setup around teh characters and thinking about the role of government in providing for individual needs was very well done and most useful for my class. I just wanted more on the whole system especially the critical thinking question around who should pay tax and how much we need to collect to deal with the needs of the country and its population.
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
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Which part/s of the kit grabbed the attention of your students and engaged them the most? Same as me. I think they engaged really well with the first half. The set up around their characters and linking to the tax system was really successful.
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
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“This is a fantastic resource, beautifully produced and with lots of thought and substance. The lesson intention is great. The set up is really positive. The second half could use more real world application outside of percentages to make it mean something more to students. Plus the whole set-up with the "Dungeons and dragons" character development never really paid off as I thought it would. Great resources. I would use it again. But I would plan my teaching around it more carefully especially the second half to get students thinking about more context and more of the real world facts and informationm around it e.g. homelessness etc.”
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Posted 3 months ago
Jo N
Verified Reviewer
What made you decide to undertake a tax based programme and specifically the Part of something bigger kit for your students? I was looking for something to balance my teaching of Numeracy skills that would give students a real world understanding.
If you were to re use this resource in the future, how would you see yourself doing this? (Eg, as a full unit, separately in other units of work, integrating into cross curricular lesson plans) This kit complimented my previous teaching and I can see myself using it again once we have covered some base skills (eg. percentages)
How effective was the Melani interactive in increasing your students' understanding of tax?
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Very effective
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
No change
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Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? The payslip activity - lots of learning happened in this task.
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of Tax systems and what it contributes to, prior to engaging with the kit?
No change
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Which part/s of the kit grabbed the attention of your students and engaged them the most? The id badges and then the supermarket employee site created a lot of discussion. We even researched the cost of living to give the students more context about their wages.
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
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“This was a great kit to bring 'real' maths into the classroom.”
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Posted 3 months ago
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