Making a Job: A Basic Guide to Entrepreneurship Readiness

• A curriculum for an enrichment, advisory, or after-school program

Motivating the Entrepreneurs in your classroom

• How does the financial world work? • Stock Market Game and Current Events

• What are the elements of business ownership?

• Student Guide & Journal:

• How can I contribute as an entrepreneur? • Product development & proposal

The Stock Market Game• Online simulation of stock investments • www.stockmarketgame.com• Using Internet, students can find daily trade

prices of companies and research potential investments

www.yahoo.com/finance

• Yahoo.com/news

Journals • Journal on each trading day– Whether daily or weekly….

• Possible questions: – What actions did your group take today?– How did you come to that decision? – What news events shaped your decisions today?– How does your group collaborate on your portfolio?– If you had 10,000 to invest on your own, in what

company or industries would you invest?

Product Development• Students develop a product or business – Tailored to meet a need or want in their life– Curriculum walks them through the brainstorming

process

• Examples: -shoe finder, -student toolbelt, soccer shoes, McDonald’s franchise on a boat, hair fixer, special hair spray…

Implementing the “Making a Job” Curriculum

• Resources: – Student Guide (text on entrepreneurship)– Personal Journal (review and reflection activities)

• Internet Sites:– www.yahoo.com/finance– www.kauffman.org

Easy steps to use the curriculum…

1) Preread each chapter as you approach it2) Create a “cue set” or motivation to interest

students -Taste tests (sodas, chocolate bars) -Marketing analysis (youtube videos! Print ads, etc) -Product examples (show/tell)

3) Establish reading strategy (single, pairs, group, whole class) & assign activity

How to make it real

• Call upon products students use • Incorporate current events • Bring in speakers (banks, local companies, etc)

Participation: I attached payments (as grades) to increase student motivation. This was tracked in a bank account. Students could purchase privileges (choose seats, movies once, etc) and could also face fines!

3 suggestions… 1) Teach students this word: diversify.

(and then encourage students to do so!)

2) Send a letter home to parents at the start -entrepreneur parents, visitors, give-aways

3) Don’t feel like you have to know everything