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Published on Leave a comment on Methodological recommendations for economics and entrepreneurship education for the basic education level

Purpose

  • To provide practical ideas, how children and youth can be taught entrepreneurship at schools.
  • To analyse the examples of learning outcomes and their assessment.

Material

https://sodas.ugdome.lt/metodiniai-dokumentai/perziura/1521

Duration

Depends on a chosen idea, some suggested ideas are for the lesson (45 minutes), others can take longer periods.

Description

The methodological material created by a group of experts and based on a lot of valuable references provides examples of long-term and short-term planning under the renewed Economic and Entrepreneurship Framework Program (Lithuanian). It provides the illustrations of lesson plans, a brief description of the assessment, and sources of information that economics teachers and students can use in preparation for and during the lessons.

Languages

Lithuanian.

Published on Leave a comment on METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES FOR TRAINING ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS AT SCHOOL

Purpose

  • To provide practical ideas, how children and youth can be taught entrepreneurship at schools.

Material:

https://www.rokiskiosc.lt/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/verslumo_metodika-1.pdf

Duration:

Depends on a chosen idea, some suggested ideas are for the lesson (45 minutes), others can take a whole year.

Description

A methodology adapted to the needs of regions as an integral part of creatively entrepreneurship in both formal and non-formal education in grades 5-11 ,although many ideas can be applicable in primary level and/or Higher Education Institutions with Initial Primary Teacher Education.

Languages

English, Lithuanian, Russian.

Published on Leave a comment on Toolbox created by TES initiative

Purpose

  • to develop Entrepreneurship Competence of future teachers;
  • to become familiar with tools, prepared by other in-service teachers or other interested parties for different education levels (including primary school and Higher Education);
  • to create and to share tools in the provided platform.

Material

https://www.tesguide.eu/

https://www.tesguide.eu/default.aspx

Duration

Depends on a particular tool.

Description

TES is one of the largest entrepreneurship education initiatives in Europe, co-funded by the European Commission through the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP). It aims at supporting teachers’ professional development in applying the entrepreneurial learning in several subjects and learning environments (primary, secondary, upper secondary and vocational schools). As teachers are playing a leading role in the implementation and evolution of entrepreneurial learning: thousands of good tools and methods for entrepreneurial learning are used in European schools every day. The Virtual Guide constitutes the first attempt to systematize them with over 100 tools and methods included in the first edition, but it aims to further grow and to become an increasingly important go-to place for entrepreneurial teachers in search of good ideas and examples. In order to achieve such a goal, we need your help to broaden the variety of tools and methods presented in the guide. If you have developed experiences, best practices or new ideas share them by filling the form provided on the website. The Virtual Guide provides 33 tools for lower primary and 55 for higher primary levels, and 48 tools for Initial Teacher Education.

Languages

English

Published on Leave a comment on Entrepreneurship Education – A Guide for Educators

Purpose/goal

  • To give an idea for Highier Education Institutions with Initial Teacher Education how EE can be implemented as it shares practical recommendations.
  • To share good experience from different Europen countries, linked to particular Higier Education Institutions, as contact details of responsible people are provided, it is suitable for making new parnerships and for building a national or international network.

Duration

A hundred pages to read a full guide.

Material

http://ec.europa.eu/DocsRoom/documents/7465/attachments/1/translations

Description

Abstract:

In 2012, DG Enterprise and Industry and DG Education and Culture initiated two transnational events targeting teachers’ preparation for entrepreneurship education. The events took place in May 2012 (Dublin, Ireland) and in September 2012 (Brdo, Slovenia). The aim of the events was to bring together actors involved in teacher education and training in entrepreneurship to present good practice, exchange ideas and learn from each other. About 170 delegates from more than 30 countries — European Member States as well as accession countries and partner countries — took part in the two events. Experts presented frameworks and guidelines; and practitioners from schools, teacher training institutions, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and training providers showcased their methods, programmes and projects. Innovative ideas were explored and discussed in workshops and group working sessions. Altogether, a wide variety of areas of action regarding the implementation of entrepreneurship education in teacher education was covered. This guide aims to showcase a selection of examples of inspiring practice featured through the two events to a wider audience. It highlights the enablers and the success factors of the examples, and provides contact details for more information. Building on this, it provides a selection of practical recommendations developed as a result of the events, hoping to inspire practitioners to take action and continue with their own activities to enable teachers for entrepreneurship education.

Language(s)

20 european union languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Lihuanian, Swedish, Danish, and Duch.

Published on Leave a comment on Handbook: Be an entrepreneur! Self-initiative and learning motivation with entrepreneurial teaching

Goal/Purpose

After this training course, participants (teachers/university students) should be able to

  1. Reflect on and understand how creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial competencies are put into practice in an educational context.
  2. Recognize opportunities in their lessons that are suitable for an entrepreneurial project, develop and evaluate an idea, and present it to their colleagues and/or other actors.
  3. Gather and make use of feedback on the idea from potential users and external actors.
  4. Implement the idea
  5. Evaluate the implementation process

Duration

It can be used for a few sessions or over a longer period of time.

Material

Handbook (in German)

https://www.dkjs.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Dokumente/themen/Jugend_Zukunft/Entrepreneur_Teaching_DKJS_2014.pdf

Description

The handbook gives practical advice and provides teachers and trainers details about how such a training course could be designed.        

The concept is based on the following understandings:

Personal experience: Only when teachers have learned themselves – that is, experienced in their own learning processes – what self-directed, creative learning feels like, will they be able to create an entrepreneurial culture among their pupils.

Reflection: The participants become aware of which approaches they already successfully practice and how to strengthen them. They reflect on their role and pedagogical approach and how they view their pupils.

Motivation: Learner motivation and successful learning depend on flexible and innovative teaching styles and methods.

Doing something new: This concept of professional development does not include any rigid learning units but is instead based on the intrinsic desire of teachers to do something new and be innovative.

Role model: When teachers themselves use entrepreneurial competencies in their lessons, this motivates their pupils to acquire them as well. We call this way of teaching ‘entrepreneurial teaching’.

Published on Leave a comment on YEDAC TOOLKIT

Purpose/goal

The YEDAC - Young Entrepreneurs Developing in Action-  project is an EU-project focusing on developing young people’s entrepreneurial competences.

This project has developed models to integrate the entrepreneurial mindset into the subject matters and the daily teaching in European schools. The tools and models developed in the project have been tested by teachers and their pupils in schools all over Europe and used worldwide.

The workshops and activities provided in this toolkit could be integrated in Higher Education.

Specific goals related to the entrepreneurial learning process model:

Explore:

  • To explore together with your classmates and teacher, what an entrepreneur is, and what entrepreneurs do.
  • To assess your own entrepreneurial competences with the self-assessment tool.
  • To explore the theme you are going to work with.

Develop

  • To collaborate with teachers and partners to get as many ideas as possible.
  • To help each other pick the best idea.
  • To plan the working process – how to realize your idea.
  • To set individual learning goals for what you will learn in the process.
  • To develop and produce your product or service or solution.
  • To make a prototype and test it on a relevant target group.

Deliver

  • To present your product, service or solution for your classmates, teachers and maybe also to other partners.
  • To get an overview over what you have learned in the subject matters and how you have improved your entrepreneurial competences.

Duration

It depends on the workshops and/or activities you decide to implement. There are activities for minutes or modules to be developed during weeks

Material

Description

The book or toolkit is about entrepreneurship and learning. It is a guide to help people through the process of getting a good idea and putting it into action. In other words, it is like acting like an entrepreneur and at the same time explore the subject matters.

Entrepreneurship is considered by YEDAC as an attitude or an approach to life and learning. It means that you have the will and the ability to influence on your own future and take responsibility for your own life and activities.

In this book the reader will find tools and a guideline on how to act an learn in a new way, where the person contribute with ideas and interests and make important decisions on how to bring these ideas to life.

The book is based on the entrepreneurial learning process model that illustrates how learning activities can be organised.

The process consists of three main phases: explore, develop and deliver. These steps are divided into workshops. A workshop is an intensive learning activities with a specific activities: entrepreneurship; real world themes; development of ideas; planning; production; presentation and evaluation.

Language

English

Published on Leave a comment on THE DESIGN THINKING TOOLKIT FOR EDUCATORS

Purpose/goal

To generate innovative and creative ideas that focus its effectiveness on understanding and solving the real needs of users.

Duration

Depending on the way in which the process is structured, the challenge that has to be faced, the information that the participants have, the number of people that participate in the process and the time that is available, the design thinking methodology could be worked out in a practical way in a minimum of two days. In any case, it depends on different variables.

This toolkit for educators will act as a reference to deal with this methodology and guide the educator and students.

Material

Description

This tool is based on the idea that "Design Thinking is the confidence that everyone can be part of creating a more desirable future, and a process to take action when faced with a difficult challenge. It is believed that that kind of optimism is well needed in education".
This tool is also based on the fact that Design thinking is a creative process that helps you to design meaningful solutions in the classroom, at your school, and in your community. The toolkit for educators provides you with instructions to explore Design Thinking and its 5 phases:

1. Discovery (empathize)
2. Interpretation (define)
3. Ideation (ideate)
4. Experimentation (prototype)
5. Evolution (test)

It is necessary to download the toolkit that contains: a workbook and the toolkit for educators. Click on the following link to download both resources.

You can download it in different languages.

Language(s)

English
Spanish
Portuguese
Czech
French
Korean