Edison: strategies and training to encourage

entrepreneurship

Life Long Learning ProgrammeA Leonardo da Vinci project

Inventor & Entrepreneur

The man who gave the world electric light, phonograph and motion pictures, was not only one of the world’s greatest inventors, but also able to exploit the profit potential of his creations.

Thomas Edison

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About the Project…….

J. RussellProject Officer for Instructional Practices (ETBI)

• Entrepreneurship Education

• European

• October 2013 – September 2015

• Leonardo de Vinci

• Teacher training and support

• Further Education and Training

J. RussellProject Officer for Instructional Practices (ETBI)

- Project Partners:

• Ireland*

• The Netherlands

• Spain

• Italy*

• The UK*

• Austria

J. RussellProject Officer for Instructional Practices (ETBI)

- Entrepreneurship Education

Attitude

Skills

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Teacher & Student

Developing a Mind-set

Enhance Skills

Cross Curricular Approach

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1. Promote entrepreneurship as an integrated part of VET programmes by focussing on:– The teachers, to help them become

entrepreneurial teachers.

– The students, to facilitate the development of an entrepreneurial attitude through the use of experiential learning.

2. Develop an International network.

J. RussellProject Officer for Instructional Practices (ETBI)

- Specific Targeted Outcomes:

• Develop a ‘Strategy Statement’ to encourage entrepreneurship and embed it in the educational context.

• Develop and implement an interactive ‘Train the Trainer’ programme encompassing ‘face to face’ training and e-learning.

• Focus on pedagogy.• Develop a international platform to share

resources and experiences.• Develop guidelines to develop language skills.

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- Programme is based on 4 Modules:

• Identifying Entrepreneurial Competencies.

• Enhancing the Core Entrepreneurial Competencies.Decision Making

Risk taking

Realism

Creativity

• Developing a Cross Curricula Approach to Embedding the Entrepreneurial Concept.

• Assessment and Planning for Future Development.

- ETBI’s remit:

• Leading the development and collation of classroom materials.

• Leading the development of Module 4; Assessment and Planning for Future Development.

• Piloting the ‘Train the Trainer’ programme.

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(ETBI)

Classroom Materials:

Assessment & Planning for the Future:

Train the Trainer Programme:

Tactics Participatingteachers

Pilot February 2015 ETB Sector

Strategies Students

Skills SDP & SSE

Partnership

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Our Immediate Plan:

Our Strategic Plan

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• Share our best practice with our European Partners

• Build on existing ‘best practice’

• Run a Training Programme for PP Teachers –Cross Sector

• Develop a ‘Short Course’- Junior Cycle Framework

• Build and develop partnerships

• Build on our existing Programmes for CPD

• Develop a FET Programme

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- Focus of the Training Programme:

• Embed entrepreneurial education in instructional leadership

• Extend teachers repertoire of instructional practices

• Encourage active and effective partnership

• Develop a suite of supports

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Model –

Principal or Deputy Principal AND 2 Teachers Principal or Deputy Principal AND 2 Teachers

Whole Staff

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• Common Language• Enhance the T & L

Repertoire of teachers

• Build Capacity• Professional

Learning Communities

Key Drivers:

Learners Teachers

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Ireland Europe

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Chapter 1 ………….

Chapter 2: We look forward to working with you …

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Key Questions

Minister Jan O Sullivan, Minister for Education & Skills.

Q.1

How do we harvest the energy and experiences of your initiatives to make enterprise education a universal experience for our learners, particularly at primary and post-primary level?

Minister Jan O Sullivan, Minister for Education & Skills.

Q.2

How can these separate initiatives be synergised to create a unified value-added national perspective, where the whole of your efforts is greater than the sum of its parts?

Would a ‘National Entrepreneurial Award’ acknowledge the partnership between you and schools?

or

Do you have other suggestions?

Q.3

What should we name it?

and

How should we define Entrepreneurial Education?

Q.4

Enterprise

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial

EDUCATION

In

EDUCATION

Entrepreneurship Education is about how to develop a general set of competences applicable in all walks of life, not simply about learning how to run a business. It includes all forms of learning, education and training which contribute to entrepreneurial spirit, competence and behaviour -with or without a commercial objective.

European Commission

Entrepreneurship Education: A Guide for Educators

June 2013

…….. entrepreneurship education… a process through which learners acquire a broad set of competencies that can bring greater individual, social and economic benefits since the competences acquired lend themselves to application in every aspect of people's lives.

The Key Competences for Lifelong Learning – A European Framework Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council , December 2006

Entrepreneurship is the individual’s ability to translate ideas into action. It encompasses creativity, innovativeness and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and direct action towards the achievement of goals.

Ministry of Education, Finland, in their Strategy for Entrepreneurial Education

What do you think?

What should Entrepreneurial Education look like?

….. two sets of complementary actions should be incorporated into entrepreneurship education.

• …. developing attitudes and behaviour, particularly traits such as personal responsibility, creativity, leadership, problem solving and being proactive.

• ……. should focus on the technical and managerial competences required to start and run an organisation.

The European Commission

What do you think?

–What should it include? –What Key Skills should we focus on developing? – How do we develop an entrepreneurial attitude?–What experience should the students be exposed

to?–What knowledge do we have to impart?–Who should have access to entrepreneurial

education?– How should it be included in the curriculum?– Should we create different levels within an

entrepreneurial education programme?

Q. 5

Q. 6

• How do we develop or enhance the Entrepreneurial Culture in our schools?

• How do we make it systemic?

Q. 7

What characterises an Entrepreneurial School?

How can we establish qualitypartnerships between entrepreneurs and schools?

Q.8