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Students must be taught how to take responsibilities in their environment, school, home, in community.

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i would say that communication is the base for everythink.

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spotting-opportunities should be a habit for all subjects

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I' m teacher secondary scool. I' m teach chemistry, in chemistry laboratory my student to work on progect in small group.

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I improve the work in team, the self organization, education to success, to propose their ideas for any problem.

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I am an economy teacher. The entreprise is my life. I ask to my students to think as an entrepreneur and to create a business idea: it's very interesting to see a lot of ideas so original. also i ask to my students to look for each problem  relative a business or a market the gain solutions. it's very difficult to find the right answer for every question.

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I am a piano teacher in the secondary school level.
I think that a strategy to enable pupils to focus on new opportunities to be conducting an orchestra to a student at a time so that realizes the function of the conductor.

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Spotting opportunities is crucial in daily life and as teachers we should improve it by proposing projects and operative learning to our students. I work in the lower secondary school and I try to make my students subjects of their learning: they always make something such as little brochure if we work on geography or make other tools or videos. In Italy we have a lot of problems with burocrazia and it's difficult to think "entrepreneurial "as you have to ask for a lot of permissions: to the headmaster, to parents, to other colleagues etc.

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//I ask my student to think of a tool/product they use in daily life and how it can be improved

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I teach students to work on projects in small groups.

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I train my students as innovative

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I always encourage the student to encourage and encourage them to do it. I think the first step is to make them feel safe

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There is not EE in our school curriculum. But we take part in eTwinning projects. We also have vocational course Enterpreneurnal literacy in the 6th and 7th form.

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A way to spot opportunities is accustom students to think more in front of solutions to a problem. accustom them not to surrender.

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As I see it, there are many ways in which you can involve students to develop entrepreneurship at school. For example, you can get students to make school life better by involving them in it or by making school a more beautiful place getting them work to redecorate it and so much so on...

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I try to engage my students by involement in different class project and eTwinning projects.

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A way to spot opportunities is involving students in their community where they need to solve a community problem they find. Their ideas need to fulfill and create opportunities somehow.

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We have to let our students think for themselves making it clear that there is no one way answers, letting them be creative and letting them express themselves without restrictions. At school, for example, we can achieve this with methodologies centered on the students and the teacher acting only as a guide. We have to avoid the “kids in a row” that Mr. Hall mentions.

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I work in a vocational school in Spain, and EE is integrated in the regular school curricula. There is a subject in which students are requested to spot opportunities, and throughout the school year they reflect on their spotted business ideas and  build a business plan on them. But everything is supposed to be done mostly on paper.

I try to teach them how to discover opportunities by using design thinking, training them how to see the world through new eyes, practicing empathy. I use ideo website and also dschool information and kits. They practice the empathy interview, but I find a lot of problems to juggle the outdoor activities with the academic ones.

Afterwards, we develope the business idea with lean methodologies, and they learn how to prototype, test and pivot, introducing changes in their ideas.

The problem is that the curricula doesn’t  regard the design thinking or lean startup methodologies, it depends on the particular teacher if they are introduced in the classroom or not. The subject can be developed mostly theoretically, and the learning environment it is not organized in a flexible and adaptable way.  There isn’t much interaction with the outside world, and it is difficult to implement it.
We could improve this, but at least  have to take a specific subjet centered on entrepreneurship.

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Our students participate to different projects in which they are asked to set up a company or develop an idea that they can sell either in a classical market or on internet.

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On secondary level we have organised annual events forlocal entrepreneurs to come to school and talk about different opportunities starting from a students him/herself and classroom. Another annual event is entrepreneurial week in the beginning of October. Then, different smaller and bigger events are organised. Every year there are several students´ companies in our school. They act as real companies for one year starting from ideas to developing and marketing a product. It is a voluntary activity for students but I think it shoulb be compulsory. Even if they fail, it is also an experience. We should encourage our students more practically to fulfil their ideas. The students get good theoretical knowledge but it must be put into practice!

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In classrooms live the entrepreneur mindset this generation is very colaborative and they know how implement their ideas,they are wishful to contribute in many activities they only need guide and learn a process to know successs in their projects. I like use CANVAS because they have a register and they notice the process, and they could have a self assessment

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Involving in different projects would be a nice opportunity for the students to develop skills like communication, creativity, responsability.

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In my school, there are many projects that support the EE. For instance our students each year, do a job experience of six week, that help them to change perspective. Moreover they have the chance to spend a week in a foreign school, and share their thoughts and idea with students of other countries.

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The good way to develop this skill in our student is to involved in activity in learning process. I need to stimulate and develop creativity through visual and practical experience....

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At primary school,we can start with a job shadow day,and fewexamples of success entrepreneurs around the world.We can play games where can learn about how they start to make their business in their community

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The best way to develop this skill in our pupils is to make them more involved in the learning process. E 'need to stimulate and develop creativity through experiments and practical experience, I try to do every day.

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My school is a Secondary High school where different projects are fostered to to support the empowerment of students in spotting opportunities. For example in the Erasmus plus Key 2 project "Exploring sustainability in the food sector" 2015/2016, the most relevant topics addressed by this project were: Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship education, Environment and climate change, ICT - new technologies - digital competences, foreign languages, especially English. In the project my school students  took over the role of entrepreneurs in the food sector. They were able to find out how difficult it can be to combine business objectives and the aim of sustainability. This could make them reconsider standard ideas about the aims of business as well as consumer behaviour. The project was carried out transnationally in order to reflect business relations in the EU food sector, which is highly internationalized. Also a lot of the alternative models for food production such as the Slow Food movement are transnational. Working together with peers from other European countries were enable students to compare the mechanisms of the food sector in their countries and the role that alternative business models play in each of them.

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The best way of developing this skill in our students is to make them more involved in the learning process. I know it is difficult to attain but I try to do it every day . In our classes we have disabled students and a way to spot opportunities could be to ask the "average intelligence" ones to work, act using their disabled mates' point of view. that could help them to grow and use their creativity.

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Students think so much time for their phones, instagram, selfie etc. The teachers are very busy. Nobody think how save water in school and help somebody with savings money. Only for example.

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I'm trying to develop students' creativity by suggesting new occasions to learn by doing something. During my lesson of Geography they look at the country through different perspectives: they can organise a trip or a long journey, for example. They can make a brochure or a video and show to the other students their results.

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I'm trying to develop student's creativity both by performing science experiments and by connecting my students with students with the rest of Europe

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In my K8 Technology classes, I usually use design thinking to make learners think about how to transform some aspect of the school. First of all, learners make an interview in teams about the topic we are dealing with (with a broad approach). Then they must come up with a question about the topic, and after that we make a brainstorming about solutions or answers to that question. At the end, we get several good solutions to prototype.

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We're doing different projects (such as eTwinning projects) at my school to develop the students' creativity and provide them with possibilities to show initiative, to learn and teach, to work in teams, in groups, in pairs, individually.

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In my school there are many projects and activities to develo students' creativity.

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I teach in a vocational highschool (electrical engineering) and my students often must solve problems concerning our expertise,collaborate with each other, collect all the perspectives to solve it with creativity. But unfortunately, I believe that the majority of schools in Greece, are not encourage students to see and seize opportunities, just stay focus to the curriculum.

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I tried an entrepreneurial venture as a school-based project last year where teachers of various subjects worked together with their students to solve a problem using the thematic approach. Entrepreneurship skills were encouraged and highlighted.

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The expression spotting opportunities takes me to the idea of helping students to examine situations from different perspectives

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In our school which is a primary school, EE is not taught as an individual subject but as optional part of the interdisciplinary studies programme. More specifically, we run an Erasmus+ programme under the title "Stay3E: European, Ecofriendly, Entrepreneurial". For more info, please visit the twinspace or #Stay3E.

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The students identify problems in their school, like in ours it was graffity, and try to find ways to address it

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Maybe we should start asking advice to our students for some of the problems in schools: they would take an active part in the life of the community and we would be offered hundreds of ideas. The problem is how to organise and structure this sort of activities.

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The first aim of a teacher is to promote open-mindedness, to empower the students' ability to see the world from different perspectives and points of view.

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"not spotting opportunities, but seeing opportunities", "being like a cat, in takin perspectives". Right things to consider, what else?

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I teach in a primary school and the experimental approach is routine, because  between all the teachers is wide spread the sperimental method, not just for the scientific subjects, but also for all the learnings

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In my school we have adapted the " Maker center concept" in most of our classes. We use thinking routines in order to engage students to use system thinking, understand complexity and see things form different perspectives. This empowers them to spot opportunities.

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Clara Elizabeth Báez -Reggio Calabria - Italy 

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Our school is a secondary school a technician and economic. Our students have a lot of opportunities. Now is compulsory to make experiences during the studies (400 hours in the three last years) . In this way their  increase their knowledge and improve  their  skills by knowing by themselves the reality of the work and what to do

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I'm thinking about a big school event organized to raise money for student activities by a students/teachers commitee. Every classroom could suggest an idea to develop. Any school student could suggest a solution to pre-set problems as needed money to invest, place where to do somethin, logos, web activities, and so on

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Spotting opportunities is a life skill, so far it enables students to have the same opportunities in life :  looking around at things or situation you deal with from different perspectives, exploring a variety of possible solutions to a prolem, according the principle of the sliding doors, or of putting yourself in someonelse' s shoes, move young people to see everything possible. Then they need to learn the importance of Knowledge and working hardly to reach the goal

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Our school, like many others, does charity work. Often, students come up with some very creative ideas how to raise money for charity. They are motivated and efficient.

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You can spot opportunities when you experience different things. One good way of experiencing is visiting the workshops, laboratories and other work spaces of different occupations.  You can suggest innovative ideas, share opinions, ask, find different solutions, only when you see these people work and you work with them.  We should pay attention to the practical side of experience.  Students never forget when they practice.  

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You can spot opportunities when you experience different things. One good way of experiencing is visiting the workshops, laboratories and other work spaces of different occupations.  You can suggest innovative ideas, share opinions, ask, find different solutions, only when you see these people work and you work with them.  We should pay attention to the practical side of experience.  Students never forget when they practice.  

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First of all I find this first step of "spotting opportunities" so important. Observing and proposing solutions gives students the opportunity to  put oneself in someone elses place and see things from another perspective.
This competence could be fostered in the language lessons - as I am a German teacher - as following.
Students could put themselves in the place of a tourist and think of the most  important phrases, words, questions needed when travelling to Germany or Greece. Students then make a short tourist guide. This makes them learn in an interesting way and help other people.

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Sharing recipes and making cakes and biscuits at the school canteen for sale  in order to raise funds for charity, that is,  offer Christmas baskets to the poor students from our school. We had the opportunity to exchange recipes, do research, get the best ingredients for a good price, write the recipes, pack the biscuits, work interdisciplinary, help each other and promote solidarity and empathy to all the members of our community.

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I believe every child is good at something and it's up to school to provide the environment in which students can develop their talents and take the most of they are good at. It's hard to achieve because our school system is too old and full of pure reproduction of facts.

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i think, every student have equal oppurtunities. Entrepreneurship education for all. It is also important to make connections to their lives and encourage interpretations of the world around us that make sense to them.

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I prefer to share an activity we are developing:
"we have a small river near school its sideways are full of litter, so we came out school to see how we can help solving this problem... Afterwords students agree to clean themselfs the small river sides with the support of the environmental department of the city chamber..."

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I think that education should help students increase their self-esteem by both enhancing and empowering them.
Opportunities of debating, ideas exchange, collaborative learning can help students build up their own ideas, opinions instead that following others'. Encouraging the possibility of looking at facts, situations from different points of view is crucial. Engaging students in problem based activities - also based on real problems - where they, working in groups, have to come out with solutions.
Getting students to set up goals in their every day life in terms of activities to be carried out and timings to be respected.
Helping them making "connections" among school subjects, do not passively accept kilos of knowledge

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Encouraging the ss to use their imagination, become confident and not be afraid to try things out can be done in every class. We as teachers have the opportunity to inspire our students and make them be creative

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In my school we organize different activities to motivate students to think about the school, the environment and their role as part of them. Competitions, plays, concerts, charities and many more.

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I believe every student is creative. The school will provide student opportunities. Because the person of your future must be entrepreneur. So the school should get the child to do it.

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First of all, students should learn to find opportunities in every man or woman, or child, or boy and girl they meet, by realizing that more people in contact are, more powerful the action will be.

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One exercise I like to have my students complete is that of observing our school and create a SWOT analysis of the surroundings. They role play into various characters of economics consultancies or technical firms.
I think our school through a variety of extra curricular activities fosters creativity and the ability of spotting opportunities. However it would be easier if centrally, the Ministry of Education could change the entrepreneurial education by adding specific courses in all schools. (such courses are non existent in Greece, alongside a minimum of economic education)

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This is how our Christmas tree looked like.

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Opportunities are everywhere, truly everywhere: in the school foyer, in the classroom, in the teachers' room, in the school yard, in the school gym... there are millions of incentives in the school environment that can be transformed into something beneficial using creativity and resourcefulness. All we have to do is make students realize that opportunities are nothing if they are not seized and realized.
Last November we did a creative project in our school. Students created hand-made Christmas decorations for the school Christmas tree, which we put in the school foyer. One of our students also made a poster with seasons greetings in 8 languages, the languages students learn at our school.

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For me, each module that we conduct at the Science Explorer, the Philippines' first and only mobile science learning facility, is an opportunity to introduce an entrepreneurial mindset in the students.  The interaction with the students is a fertile ground to cultivate this kind of thinking amongst the students.

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Spotting opportunities is not something I og we at our school are used to. It is great to get ideas here in this forum. We have a student council and perhaps we could start there.

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In my opinion, Life is full of Spotting opportunities!Teachers have to help students to find them

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In my opinion, Life is full of Spotting opportunities!Teachers have to help students to find them

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i think, every student (girls or boys ) have equal oppurtunities. Entrepreneurship education for all. We can educate qualified individuals who have 21st century skills.
in my opinion, the new generation, called the z-generation, does not have any other chance. So everybody should have good education.

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Spotting opportunities is everywhere! Every context, every situation, every moment could bring an opportunity.
Schools have to use entrepreneurship as a pedagogical technique in order to empower students getting in charge of their own life!

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"Entrepreneurial Education: The Way of Success!" It is a project applied to the schools of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, Portugal,  with the aim of encouraging students and teachers to adopt a new spirit of initiative and dynamism that expands their future horizons.

http://www.edu.empreendedora.azores.gov.pt/index.php/projecto#

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I strongly believe that every student owns special talents. That's why I usually prefer to let them use their creativity to carry on projects. In the secondary school where I teach, students like working in groups and at the same time they feel more engaged in the process of carrying on activities relevant to them, closely related to what they do like most.

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Looking for different ways to interpretate a situation and spot a new solution it's a important ability in a world always changing. I'm a teacher in Italian language in a secondary school, the students are 11-15 aged often coming from a problematic background. The percentage of foreign students is really important and making motivation and a interest in study application is essential.

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According to me, spotting opportunities means encouraging creativity and increase motivation. I mean if you give students the opportunities to create in any way they like (student are not all the same, they have different abilities/skills so don’t expect the same output from every student) they will surely get easily involved in a project or lesson and participate therefore with much more enthusiasm. It is also important to make connections to their lives and encourage interpretations of the world around us that make sense to them. This also means non to confine learning to the classroom but opening the classroom to the world..to bring the world inside.

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I think making student care about their environment would empower their ability to spot opportunities. Furthermore, school has the power to help student do something for the school, then when something works it motivates at the same time, erasing the limits of  high school child's mind.

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We have students who come to my school as Somali immigrants. I also have students from different ethnic backgrounds. As you know, immigrants students are forced to adapt in our school.Initially, communication is a big problem.Cultural differences open the gap between they and us.The role of school  should then  foster  the student's expression through traditional subjects and with innovative topics as well, in order to take hold of students' attention and make them see new scenaries for their life.

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Making the impossible possible is what entrepreneurs are supposed to be good at.

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I am a teacher of physics and chemistry and a Eco-school coordinator. I think that our school can support the empowerment of students in activities related to environmental protection in the region

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In Greek educational system there is an extra curricular zone, called Innovative school activities. Students create teams voluntarily and they meet regularly to run a project of their own choice. These projects are mainly associated to the world outside school, and connect them to the society. They take initiatives to improve their environment, to suggest solutions for community problems, or to sensitize society on different subjects. Among their actions they even participate in entrepreneurial competitions, where they apply innovative ideas and promote them.

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I am a primary school teacher. We have a project called 100 days of school. Children from each class hand make something and sell them in the schoolyard to their parents. The money is used to buy something for the classroom.

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In our school at the end of the school year we have been organizing for many years an event called "La festa del libro" where students are asked to choose the books to be read, the acitivities and laboratories to be arranged, they act as guides for parents and adults who want to visit and enter the spirit of the festival...in someways they are little entreprenuers in this occasion...

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In my school we have student elections to elect a school council. The students that are chosen often talk to their peers and ask them for suggestions to improve the school environment and to organise activities. Students have the opportunity to voice their concerns and to come up with a solution.

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In our school empowering students in identifying opportunities takes place through the work of student parliament. Every year parliament should brainstorm problems that students have at school and then to see the possibilities in solving problems - how to improve quality of school life.

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In our life communication  plays a major role and every student  should  be made aware of this aspect, thus seizing the opportunity of creating social relationships and further job possibilities.  The role of school  should then  foster  the student's expression through traditional subjects and with innovative topics as well, in order to take hold of students' attention and make them see new scenaries for their life.

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Every time I think teacher should guide students to read a situation from different prospective. In my opinion my school support the empowerment of students in spotting opportunities when they learn from the real life. Infact
The more situation is real the more they can learn about about the "topic" they want to discover  and they will be more inquiry, learners.

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I think the exercise in looking at things from an unusual point of view is quite strong in developing students' awareness for the need of change. An example for secondary school could be asking students to look at something relevant to them, like the school structure and organization, from the point of view of a figure of authority, i.e. a teacher, the principal, or even the Minister of Education, and suggest changes to improve the overall quality of the school system according to certain criteria (well being of students and teachers, relevance to students' interests and needs, etc.)

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Spotting opportunities and seize them is strictly related to motivation. When i give my students the opportunity to guide the lesson i see more enthusiasm and involvement in firsthand. At the same way happen in real life while we lead the changes, even if we are talking about small achievements. So involving students to find solutions to every single problem of the school can be a good start to the empowerment of students

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This competence could be fostered in many situations, be them at school or at home. In fact, I think that what we should actually do as teachers is to show our students that entrepreneurship can be utilized in EVERY situations during their ENTIRE life. I think that the best way to teach them how to spot opportunities is to teach by utilizing problem solving situations, a task based approach and group works; in this way they are obliged to take risks and find new and creative solutions.

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Victoria, BulgariaI am a primary teacher and I think students are more motivated and engaged when the activities are from real life. I have often used the technique of role-playing too.

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Victoria, BulgariaI am a primary teacher and I think students are more motivated and engaged when the activities are from real life. I have often used the technique of role-playing too.

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

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I remember the lemonade sale! And the question with how many lemons does a lemonade make?
It depends on your customers! It can be simple, Swiss or sophisticated.
The way you present your lemonade will arouse interest, it will create an opportunity with its differential!
What can you do to improve every day?
The entrepreneur is always looking for innovations, improving and inspiring motivation

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We might fostered those competences in every field we live - family life, community life, at work with colleagues and bosses, at our children' school as parents, etc. - in order to be able to turn difficulties/problems in opportunities. So starting to ask to ourselves and to others  what do we like and don't, what can we improve, what can I and we try to do.
At school we can support our students
- asking them open questions
- doing community projects: make students going out there and interview citizens, neighborhood managers, stakeholders in order to find out lacks and needs and then asking them suggestion on how WE can be helpful, but also start to transform the ideas into practice;
- plan a day every week in which the school manager share with students some of school need/problem/objective and ask for proposal among students.
- Find out the way to give students some and simple and real problems/situations that have to be addressed in which they have first to question them and then propose answers/solutions
- Trust students' abilities. Ask them to do something for the school. Ask them what they like and what they are good in and then give them challenges connected to schools need, community need in which they can be part of.

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During the thematic week, which is the  first time that happens in the greek schools, I aked my students to decide about a subject and work on it.Tomorrow they will tell me the subject and the final product. In addition to this, in the frame of our erasmus+ programme, students will take interviews of some entrepreneurs. It's just the beginning!

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I am pretty sure that our kids are enormously creative and able to think and analyze situations and problems and after that find a proper solution. The problem is that we as teachers use to monitor them too much and sometimes schools cuts the wings of the most creative part of our kids.
So, it's time to become more open-minded and let the students find problems , think and find solutions. We cannot give them everything done and thought and decided for them!

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An interesting point of view may be that of someone very distant from us. For example can be a very little animal as an ant or a very big one as an elephant, or a low social role as a clean worker and an high one as a manager.

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One simple way for my school to support the empowerment of students in spotting opportunities could be to start from their own class, observing problems occurring at the start/end of the lesson or during the break and giving solutions. Then, when they have acquired a method for operating, they could do the same for problems in the whole school.

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Maybe we should start asking advice to our students for some of the problems in schools: they would take an active part in the life of the community and we would be offered hundreds of ideas. The problem is how to organise and structure this sort of activities.

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We could ask students what they don't like about their community/what they want to improve/change about it and how.Unfortunately we don't have entrepreneurial subject in our school curriculum.Maybe we could link it to Civic Education.Starting from the new school year in September a new subject will be included in the 5th grade timetable : Social Education.

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I teach Latin in a secondary school,
in Italy there are many archaeological monuments,
students can monitor and enhance them
with advantage for the tourists and the whole community