Free Resource: Weekly Reflections for Money & Behavior
Encourage student self-awareness and growth with consistent reflection on income, expenses, behavior and goals.
Reflection is a powerful tool for growth. This weekly-reflection lesson gives students the structure to review their “financial week” — earnings, spending, choices — then set goals for improvement. Easy to integrate and high in payoff.
What’s Inside
- Weekly reflection worksheet in PDF and Slide format.
- Prompts for students to evaluate their spending, saving, and behavior.
- Guidance for setting attainable goals and tracking progress over time.
Why It Matters
- Builds metacognitive skills as students reflect on their habits and decisions.
- Reinforces financial behavior awareness for better independent outcomes.
- Supports ongoing classroom routines that drive long-term behavior and skill development.
Objective & Details
Objective: Building financial routines is important to student success! This weekly reflection will help students to think about their financial habits by reviewing their daily earnings, progress toward their monthly budget, and setting goals for the following week.
Duration: ~10 minutes (varies by student need)
Digitability Concepts: Communication, Behavior Skills, Social Skills
Directions: In this activity, you will use the provided reflection form to build weekly financial routines that students can carry with them once they leave the classroom. Students will use their weekly Student Dollar Tracker to help them reflect on their progress toward their current goals and create new goals as they become more comfortable earning. Award one Bankability Dollar for each routine or procedure described correctly.
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