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This module focuses on initiatives and training to stimulate entrepreneurship among students, suggesting ideas to train entrepreneurial teachers, presenting entrepreneurial projects carried out in schools and proposing methods to create a network and to find funds.

Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools

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Chapter 2: How to develop entrepreneurship at school
Introduction
In November 2012, the European commissioner for education, culture, multilingualism and youth, Androulla Vassiliou, stated: “…Europe will only resume sustained growth by producing highly skilled and versatile people who can contribute to innovation and entrepreneurship …

As a key competence, entrepreneurship does not necessarily involve a specific school subject. Rather, it requires a way of teaching in which experiential learning and project work have a main role.

Indeed, entrepreneurial competences and skills can be acquired or developed only through practical learning experiences, real-life experiences. They require active methods of engaging students to release their creativity and innovation.

Teachers do not provide students with the answers, but help them to research and identify the right questions and find the best answers. They are facilitators of learning and multipliers of ideas. They shape learning processes and can help students to achieve entrepreneurial learning outcomes — concrete knowledge, skills and attitudes.

How to become an entrepreneurial teacher and more generally an entrepreneurial school, which pedagogy to develop, which skills to teach children…?

We will look into the following points:
  • What mission for what objectives?
  • What makes an entrepreneurial teacher?
  • How to become an entrepreneurial teacher?
  • What will support entrepreneurial education for teachers?
  • Which skills should be developed by students?
  • Which enterprise students to involve students in?

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Date: 2016.08.03

Posted by S. Cabrerizo - Spain

The e-learning guide is very useful. Module 4, Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools, provides easy examples for teachers.
The negative side is is that there is a lot of information in English, and sometimes it is difficult to follow it if you have an intermediate level of English. Moreover, as a suggestion, I think it could be a good idea to have it in a download version to print the most interesting parts.

Date: 2016.07.07

Posted by Didier Cahour - France

This module is a little bit complex and theoretical. Good practices at the end are relevant.

Date: 2016.07.06

Posted by Gabriela Vrabie - Romania

This module highlights a very important aspect of education: entrepreneurship education in schools, vocational schools and universities, which will definitely have a positive impact on entrepreneurial dynamism in our economies, on young people’s employability.
To this end it not only raises teachers and counsellors’ awareness about the benefits of enterprise projects but also provides them with invaluable tips on how to implement such enterprise projects at their own school. Teachers and counsellors will find practical advice on the necessary steps in creating an enterprise project at school, how an enterprise works or how to search for funds such as crowdfunding. The module also proposes teachers, educators or guidance counsellors a series of best practices to get inspired from.

Date: 2016.07.05

Posted by Martine Prignon (AEDE-EL) - Belgium

The choice of topics and the study of them provide a valuable source of information to teachers, trainers, counselors...
The best practices and online resources add a useful complement to theory, by presenting concrete examples of experiences, projects, exchanges between peers...

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