Financial Education

Training the Trainers

Prashant Saran

Whole Time Member

Securities and Exchange Board of India

Financial Education

Training the Trainers

Agenda

SEBI’s approach

Financial Education for various Target Groups

Qualities required for delivering financial education

Trainer’s identified for target groups

Challenges faced – Training the trainers

Identifying and training/developing good trainers

Methods and training tools

Motivation Techniques

Efforts made to overcome the challenges

Evaluation - effectiveness and efficiency

Terms and condition - Trainers

Status till date

SEBI’s Approach

Mandate - Investor Protection

Educated Investor - Protected Investor

Financial Education - Important Life Skill

Financial Education for Target Groups

School Students

Middle School Students

High School Students

College Students

Middle Income Groups

Home Makers

Executives

Retired People

Self Help Groups

Qualities required for financial education

Subject matter expertise

Instructional expertise

Ability to hold audience

Soft skills- communication and Presentation

Maintain quality and integrity

Attitude/ behaviour as facilitator etc.

Trainer’s identified for target groups

Middle School Teachers - NGO Staff

For students of Grade 7 to 9

High School Teachers - SEBI / NISM

For students of Grade 10 to 12

Resource Persons - NISM

For various target groups

Challenges faced

Training the Trainers

Identifying and training /developing good trainers

Identifying good trainers

Who will be trainers – category / group

Selection of candidates

Period of validity of certification

Terms and conditions and code of conduct

Nature of training

location , no. of days

Course / topics to be covered

Methods/ techniques to be adopted

to impart subject knowledge

maintain interest in them

active involvement of participants

Methods and training tools

To create aim, purpose and values

To create empathy

To make them conduct reasonably appropriate number

of programs

Motivation Techniques

Efforts made to overpower

challenges

Identifying trainers

Category/ Group- School / college teachers

Publicity

Advertisement in newspapers

Letters to schools/ colleges/ universities

Pre screening of application

Exam during the training

telephonic and personal Interview and selection

7 days residential training in the respective regions

Sessions covered apart from subject knowledge

Ice-breaking

Self-motivation and confidence

soft skills - communication , presentation

How to handle queries and audiences

Sessions on subject matter

Lectures

Group discussions

Role play games exercises

Assignments and tasks

Method of training adopted

Monetary - Honorarium and conveyance

Non Monetary

Inspirational talk during training

Certification from SEBI

Presence of SEBI officials when conducting workshop

Free study material

SEBI visits

Posting of their photographs on SEBI Investor website

Google group to share experiences

Motivation techniques

Continuous Evaluation

of

Effectiveness and Efficiency of Trainers

Effectiveness and Efficiency

Presentations by trainers

Subject knowledge

Initiative and creativity

Feedback from the participants

Feedback from the institutions

Visit by SEBI officials

Terms and conditions

for

Certification of Trainers

Terms and conditions

Certification valid only for a year and renewal is based on

annual performance and refresher course

Conduct minimum 12 and maximum 52 workshops in a year.

Conduct the workshop ordinarily in local language

Distribute free of cost the standard published material made

available by SEBI

He shall not make any monetary gain by any means

Terms and conditions

cont…

Trainers not to

Indulge in selling and/or promoting any specific investment product

Promote commercial interest of any intermediary or issuer

Undertake any securities markets related business activity

Engage in any activity which has potential to bring disrespect to SEBI,

Represent by conduct or otherwise, to be an agent or employee of SEBI, etc

Maintain all records including the details of workshops and

participants, expenses, etc. in the manner, as may be specified by

SEBI and provide to SEBI as and when desired.

Status till date

Program No of teachers

trained

No: of

workshops

No: of Participants

covered

(various target

groups)

Through Resource Persons

130 250 15000

Through NGO

280 197 14550

Total 410 447 29550

Road Ahead

At least one Resource Person in each district in the country

Next round of recruitment and training is in process

5000 workshops across the country this year

Institutions/organisations approached by SEBI and RPs

Recently SEBI Officers empanelled as trainers

Thank You