Basic money management skills are essential in a life free of debt or financial strife. Foster children learn how to balance a bank account and figure out interest rates through math classroom settings. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division basics are used in balancing a household budget; these skills are commonly learned in a classroom setting.
Foster children need to understand how to communicate through speaking and writing to obtain and maintain careers. These skills are taught in the classroom setting through reading and writing exercises. The children do not need to learn exuberant works of literature; they need more specific lessons such as business writing and speaking in front of a group. Teaching foster children communication for life skills involves teaching them to speak in a manner cohesive to modern social formalities.
Providing foster children with opportunities to work within the classroom setting on student-led group projects helps teach camaraderie and teamwork. Knowing how to be agreeable in a group is an essential life skill. Assigning projects such as tutoring or creative activities which depend on cooperation for success helps foster children learn to get along with each other to produce a common positive result.
Teaching teenage foster children health and sexuality basics helps with future family planning and self care. Foster children, who may not receive preventative care, will need basic health care information, such as the types of doctors to visit, types of common illnesses and basic birth control information. All this information is presented in a classroom setting and is pertinent in the future of foster children.