Resources for Enterprise Education and Educational Fun
Successfully embedding Enterprise Education into the curriculum of a school and making Enterprise Education sustainable is key to increasing attainment levels schools.
There is now sufficient evidence from schools who have allocated sufficient education resources to Enterprise Education and included Enterprise in lesson plans across the curriculum that attainment levels have increased as the lessons have become more engaging and have helped to keep otherwise disaffected pupils motivated. Evidence from schools supports the view that educational fun can improve learning and retention levels.
So what Enterprise Education resources are needed for a successful lesson that has embedded the training of Enterprise skills and capabilities?
Enterprise Education is about developing life long soft skills such as leadership, teamwork, problem solving, creativity, risk management, planning and many more. Overall, training in Enterprise is about developing a can do approach to work and play. Students with this approach will be more successful in school and also in life, which helps to build their esteem and employability.
Enterprise training often involves developing the communication skills of the students and this involves interaction with other students. This is often done in an atmosphere of educational fun. Retention levels increase when students “don’t realise they are learning” as quoted a number of times when using E4A Enterprise Education resources such as the Enterprise Education Jigsaw. The jigsaw puzzle lesson engages students as it involves fun, as they have to put together the jigsaw of a mind map of the Enterprise skills and capabilities. The learning comes when they work through a series of enterprising exercises that ensure they continually reference the jigsaw. The objective of the professionally written Enterprise lesson plan, which comes with the class pack of jigsaws, is that the students learn, understand and apply the vocabulary of Enterprise. The Enterprise Education Jigsaw has successfully been used in year 6 at Primary School and years 7 & 8 at secondary school. Some high schools have also successfully used it as part of an induction day for incoming primary schools in order to demonstrate that learning can be fun at high school.
Successfully embedding Enterprise Education throughout the curriculum in a school is about good communication. One education resource that is often used to that effect is the use of posters in classrooms throughout a school. They are cheap and help to convey the appropriate messages. Recognising this, E4A has developed a unique, wipe clean laminated poster that communicates the Enterprise Process in a fun way using two cartoon characters but also allows the subject teacher to write on the objectives of the lesson using the language of Enterprise Education.
E4A as part of its commitment to research and development continues to look for and develop products that involve educational fun so that the students learn whilst they enjoy themselves. The goal is to develop education resources that enable students to learn without realising it.
Contact E4A for more information on Enterprise Education Resources in Schools.
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