Junior Achievement of Alabama

The Junior Achievement elementary school programs include six sequential themes for kindergarten through fifth-grade students. Volunteers present five activities to students, introducing them to the basic concepts of business and economics and how education is relevant to the workplace. The sequential activities build on studies from each preceding grade and prepare students for secondary school and lifelong learning. All elementary school programs are correlated to the Alabama course of study for social studies, language arts and math.

Junior Achievement's high school programs help students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future and foster skills that will be highly useful in the business world. With a wide range of different programs, the volunteers bring real-life business experience and guidance into the classroom at a time that represents an essential crossroads for young people. Also correlated to the Alabama course of study, these programs reinforce the value of workforce readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy and serve as supplements to standard social studies curricula.

The middle school programs for students in grades 6, 7, and 8 build on concepts the students learned in Junior Achievement's elementary school programs. Volunteers present six activities that help teens make difficult decisions about how to best prepare for their educational and professional future and provide a global and historical perspective to concepts related to entrepreneurship and economics. The Junior Achievement middle school programs are also correlated to the Alabama course of study for social studies, language arts, math and career tech.

Ja job shadow takes students into the workplace to learn about careers. Through this authentic one-day, on-site experience, enhanced with classroom preparatory and follow-up activities, students are introduced to careers and the importance of staying in school.

Learning experiences are organized around the three ja pathways: financial literacy, work and careerreadiness, and entrepreneurship. Within each pathway, there are three types of learning experiencesforming a progression of competency-based learning. The first and most basic of the learningexperiences is ja introductory learning experiences (iles) which are used to develop interest for thestudents. Educators select the learning experiences for the students. An educator or volunteer must verify in writing that each ja class was completed in its entirety, with the educator or volunteer, where applicable, completing the required number of class sessions. Verification must be obtained prior to official registration of the class in the ja usa registration system.