Youth Entrepreneurship
Curriculum Belongs in School
Building The Skills Required For Life’s Unpredictable Journey
Schools and districts are embracing the necessity to prepare students to navigate ambiguity and exert agency over their own learning — the skills needed to succeed in the future economy.
Students must be prepared through acquisition of not just content knowledge, but also the skills and mindset they need to work collaboratively, solve problems they care about, and handle upheaval.
These are the skills and traits at the core of entrepreneurship, and teaching youth entrepreneurship can propel students along their journeys no matter what meets them post-graduation, regardless of interest, job or path.
Student Entrepreneurship brings Purpose to Learning
Do your students care about what they’re learning? Why does it matter? Because if they care and find purpose in learning, they are engaged and are more deeply connected to the material. Purposeful Learning requires a different kind of curriculum. It demands authentic experiences that enable students to work together to identify and tackle problems, explore ways to add value to their communities and connect with the world of work. Youth entrepreneurship curriculum enables these experiences.
Benefits Of Youth Entrepreneurship
Purposeful Learning + Connections
Relationship and civic awareness
Teamwork + Collaboration
Resilience
Drive
Perseverance
Accountability
Self-direction
Prioritization
Critical + Creative Thinking
Assessment & Analysis
Decisiveness
Empathy
Perspective
Passion
Content Skills and Knowlege
A collection of skills, capabilities, and knowledge that can be employed to create strategies and get things done.
Behaviors
Common actions and habits of successful entrepreneurs.
Mindset
A set of beliefs and approaches that influence how to tackle problems or to learn.
Preparing for the Future of Work
The pace of change means that technical skills alone are never enough. Things are moving too quickly. The employees of the future need to have the ability to not only find the answer, but to think critically to discover the problem, ask the right questions and apply their learning and knowledge—and get things wrong—in order to find solutions.
~ Uncharted Learning co-Founder, Michael Miles, Article in Forbes
Successful youth entrepreneurship education extends beyond tools and technologies and offers an experiential, purposeful learning experience that encourages student agency to pursue a passion, and to build transferable skills.
