High School
JA Jamaica offers tailored programs for every level of High School, Grades 7-13. Click on the thumbnails below for an overview of each program, and to download a detailed summary. Interested in registering your school?
JA Economics for Success
Grade Seven to Ten
JA Economics for Success – Grade Seven to Ten
JA Economics for Success provides practical information about personal finance and the importance of identifying education and career goals based on a student’s skills, interests, and values.
Following participation in the program, students will be able to explore their skills, interests, values, and the world of work to make informed education, career, and life decisions. They will also be able to develop their knowledge of personal finance to apply strong financial-management skills regardless of income.
Building a life is a complex project, particularly for teens and young adults entering the working world. This engaging program shows students how to earn money, spend wisely within a budget, save and invest, use credit cautiously, and protect their personal finances.
JA Finance Park
Grade Seven to Thirteen
JA Finance Park – Grade Seven to Thirteen
JA Finance Park helps students build a foundation upon which they can make intelligent lifelong financial decisions, including those related to income, expenses, savings, and credit.
The JA Finance Park program is composed of 13 required teacher-taught, in-class lessons. It culminates in a hands-on budgeting simulation that is implemented either at a JA Finance Park facility, mobile unit, or virtual site. Additional extension activities are available for each lesson topic. Lessons are offered in a traditional classroom presentation format designed for middle- grade students and in a project-based learning (PBL) format created for high school students. Both provide educators a method of delivery that will best meet the needs of their students.
Students experience the JA Finance Park simulation, where they apply classroom learning by creating a family budget based on a hypothetical life situation. Students recognize the impact of credit history on budget planning and purchasing options.
JACE SEED
Grade Nine
JACE SEED – Grade Nine
The Junior Achievement Company of Entrepreneurs (JACE) curriculum will transform and stimulate students’ interest in business and entrepreneurship. The activity will target mainly Grade 9 students in high schools across Jamaica. In addition to supporting the Ministry of Education, Youth & Information’s (MOEY&I’s) new policy to integrate entrepreneurship into the Grade 9 curriculum, this cohort was selected because USAID believes cultivating an entrepreneurial mind-set from as early as age 13 will help the students identify the discipline as a career option. Ingraining entrepreneurship in the psyche of students at this age can change their view of the world.
JA Be Entrepreneurial
Grade Nine to Thirteen
JA Be Entrepreneurial – Grade Nine to Thirteen
JA Be Entrepreneurial introduces students to the essential components of a practical business plan, and challenges them to start an entrepreneurial venture while still in high school.
Following participation in the program, students will be able to recognize characteristics and practices of successful entrepreneurs, evaluate an entrepreneurial idea based on product, customer, and competitive advantage criteria. They will also be able to demonstrate business-planning skills for venture start-up, marketing, financing, management, and ethical decision-making.
Concepts: Advertisement, Business plan, Competitive advantages, Customer, Demographic, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial spirit, Ethical dilemma, Ethics, Financing, Franchise, Long- vs. short-term consequences, Management, Market, Market needs, Marketing, Nonprofit business, Product, Product development, Profit, Social entrepreneur, Social responsibility, Stakeholder, Voting.
Skills: Analyzing information, Business planning, Categorizing data, Decision-making, Evaluating alternatives, Expressing multiple viewpoints, Graphic presentation, Oral and written communication, Presenting information, Reading for understanding, Weighing consequences, Working in groups, Working in pairs.
JA Career Success
Grade Nine to Thirteen
JA Career Success – Grade Nine to Thirteen
JA Career Success equips students with the tools and skills required to earn and keep a job in high-growth career industries.
Concepts: Career clusters, Career planning, Career preparation, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict management, Critical thinking, Education and training,
Employer expectations, High-growth jobs, High performance teams, Interests, Inventory and ordering, Job interviews, Job outlook, Job retention, Post-secondary options, Problem-solving techniques, Retail stocking, Skills, Soft skills, STEM, Technical skills, The 4Cs, Working priorities, Workplace Skills.
Skills: Analyze data, Collaborative discussions, Conflict resolution, Communication, Competition, Creativity and innovation, Critical thinking, Decision making, Following written instructions, Formulating answers from personal experiences, Goal-setting, Identify behaviors, Interpersonal skills, Organizing information, Prioritizing, Problem solving, Research skills, Role playing, Self-assessment, Time management, Work collaboratively, Working in groups.
JA Personal Finance
Grande Nine to Thirteen
JA Personal Finance – Grade Nine to Thirteen
JA Personal Finance focuses on: earning money; spending money wisely through budgeting; saving and investing money; using credit cautiously; and protecting one’s personal finances.
Concepts: Budget, Budgeting, Compound interest, Consumer protection, Credit, Credit cards, Credit reports and scores, Debt, Earning, Education, Expense, Fixed expenses, Fraud, Identity theft, Income, Insurance, Interest, Investing, Lifetime earnings, Opportunity cost, Personal finances, Pay yourself first, Principal, Risk, Risk management, Saving money, Savings, Variable expenses
Skills: Analyzing information, Categorizing data, Creativity, Decision making, Evaluating alternatives, Graphic presentation, Oral, visual, and written communication, Prioritizing information, Read for
understanding, Using a timeline, Working in pairs, teams, and groups.