There is huge variation in the financial skills component of training programs for beginning farmers and ranchers (BFRs), reflecting the multitude of farm business types as well as the diversity of BFRs themselves.  This session will identify the characteristics of teaching methods that achieve educational impact.  Principles of effective instruction will be mined from the knowledge of presenters who have successfully used experiential training, benchmarking, direct incentives and other approaches to make financial skills education stick.