Curricula

Teaching Success: Beginning Entrepreneurial Education

This curriculum is written as an introduction to entrepreneurship education. It targets middle school, introductory high school, after school, summer camp, community partnerships, or any community organization interested in offering entrepreneurship. The six to eight-week·course is designed lesson-by-lesson with objectives, lessons to be learned, the approach, and the reflection built into each topic. All activities engage students in active learning. The curriculum explores entrepreneurship characteristics, the student’s own interest, appropriate social and business skills, interviewing an entrepreneur, idea generation and student-run businesses.· Each student either as a sole proprietor or in a limited partnership operates their business as a result of the instruction.

Teaching Success: New Directions in Entrepreneurial Education

This curriculum is written for a high school and young adult setting. It is designed·to be a semester class in business, marketing, etc. In addition, it is also designed for flexibility and can be used as “drop-in” units to fit core subjects. It flows easily into area technology/career centers where students have expressed a specific interest in learning a skill and/or a trade and gives them active business experience by creating a business around their desired vocation. In addition, other possible examples include: art, creative writing, graphic design, or any other class whereby students explore and develop an interest towards a future career.· The Teaching Success curriculum provides the necessary tools to explore and develop a business idea into an operational business. All students who take this GenEI curriculum operate at least two student-run businesses.· In addition, this curriculum is also appropriately taught in a variety of community-based settings.· Whether the business last for one day (as in planning an event) or continues to flourish, the entrepreneurial mindset will continue to develop.

By emphasizing rigor, relevance and relationships in our instruction, student achievement in core subjects increases as does their awareness that post secondary education and training·is necessary to reach their career goals. Their attitudes toward their community improve as well, to the point of desiring to return to their community at some point in their future and open businesses, purchase current businesses, or, become a great intrapreneur, creative and contributing members of the workforce.

Teaching Success: Advancing the Entrepreneurial Mindset

This curriculum is written to follow the successful completion of Teaching Success:· New Directions in Entrepreneurial Education.· The 2009 edition features an unique combination of online, virtual and face-to-face instruction.· The students experience research, reporting, blogging, writing, developing community connections and business implementation.· Continuous communication with the instructor ensures the quality of the course, providing rigor and higher level learning skills.

Additional outcomes from teaching entrepreneurship include:

• Work readiness, employability and business skills;
• Civic engagement attitudes;
• Interpersonal communication skills;
• Academic attitudes and skills;
• Problem solving skills;
• Technology skills;
• Employment and earnings increase;
• Academic and educational achievement;
• Reduction in risky behaviors and
• More positive psychological well-being.

Where are the "pockets of entrepreneurs" in your community?
School, after school organization, E-Blubs, faith based programs, Boys and Girls Clubs, summer camps.·

Offer entrepreneurship education to all your youth.·

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