ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION (as a practice-based approach)

Course Duration: 5 days
Course Fee: 400€

Teaching Entrepreneurship moves entrepreneurship education from the traditional process view to a practice-based approach and advocates teaching entrepreneurship using a portfolio of practices, which includes play, empathy, creation, experimentation, and reflection.
Together these practices help students develop the competency to think and act entrepreneurially to create, find, and exploit opportunities of all kinds in a continuously changing and uncertain world.” (Heidi M. Neck, Patricia G. Greene, and Candida G. Brush 2014.)

Learning Outcomes
All the participants will
- Define the best practices of teaching entrepreneurship in education
- Recognize learn and create new methodologies and techniques to foster entrepreneurship in classes
- Become familiar with the entrepreneurial thinking process
- Discuss how to foster strategies and tools to support students think through play, empathy, experimentation, creation, and reflection
- Develop an action plan
- Construct curriculum and designing process
- Analyze the methods focusing on entrepreneurship training strategies

Objectives of the course
- Increasing the understanding of what entrepreneurship is
- Learning how to prepare students to act as entrepreneurs
- Accomplishing the various objectives of teaching entrepreneurship active learning
- Helping students develop their entrepreneurial thinking through play, empathy, experimentation, creation, and reflection
- Focusing on the methods of teaching entrepreneurship by applying different, flexible, attractive, and innovative ways of teaching and learning.

Methodology
- Brainstorming
- Working in groups cooperatively
- Using creativity activation
- Organizing ways of motivating students to research

Target group
- Teachers, trainers, educators, school administrators, etc.





Preparation
Before the course,
- A detailed pre-course questionnaire to indicate their level of experience, teaching backgrounds, and training will be completed by participants.
- They will also prepare a presentation to reflect their own teaching method.

Validation
- A course participation certificate will be given to all participants.
- A Europass Mobility Certificate will be given if the participant demands it, as well.