1.3. Spotting opportunities by EUN Partnership aisbl

VITTORIA-NAPLES-ITALY

vdaquila63 — 2017-02-27 13:38:50 UTC

The essence of entrepreneurship is in providing a service no-one else does but also changing when this service has became obsolete!!!I think schools expecially the one i teach in that is a vocational MUST improve in the students the real sense of entrepreneurship letting them work in real shops for example or stages in banks or other kind of working places

Eleonora, Caserta, Italy.

eleonora_mauriello19 — 2017-02-27 13:39:41 UTC

Spotting opportunities could be put into practice in a shopping centre, to observe the possible customers' behaviours, trying to understand what attracts people's attention (adverts, lights, sounds...).
School should promote this kind of competence, encouraging the change of perspective, as the video suggests, that is to say helping the students "see" others' points of view. The cat example could work; I also thought about another experiment: the student turns into a teacher, in a roleplay, and tries to understand the problems of the class and to find out solutions.

Maria from Italy. Students could turn into businessmen and could create a new business by their own. This can help them to understand what is a business

mepifani1958 — 2017-02-27 14:00:18 UTC

Spoo

2017-02-27 14:21:11 UTC

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2017-02-27 14:21:22 UTC

spotting opportunities are just ways to ma ke students ready to chance so businessmen

2017-02-27 14:21:45 UTC

And bussinesswomen

Amy: Empowering pupils within the school.

2017-02-27 14:31:38 UTC

Starting a tuc shop within the school will not only raise money for the school, but give pupils a sense of responsibility and entrepreneurship. They will have the experience of handling money and giving change as well as running a business. They could also help children by offering healthy options.

Adriana Lefter

lefteradriana — 2017-02-27 14:35:16 UTC

We can develop activities with our students that help them to understanh how to manage with money, what mean to create a product , to sell it, to use money to buy somethinh else for him or for helping others.

Alessandro Michele-

2017-02-27 15:37:29 UTC

FG- Italy
For young students, it's much important to have a right point of view, so to acquire a method of interpret the reality in every moments and, then, make the choise for himself and the other people: this also studying Law and Politic Economy.

Theodora- Greece

ttziampazi — 2017-02-27 16:14:46 UTC

Situations from life: developing empathy with our acquaintances, imagining we are in their position. Facilitating an event. Redecorating a room, finding a new way to organize our home, devising life-hacks with everyday objects.

Theodora-Greece

ttziampazi — 2017-02-27 16:18:23 UTC

suggested ways for students: Become teachers, find a way to learn and handle our differences. Know your talents and share them somehow (exposition, concert,play). Reform the playground.

Teresa Rita- Italy

2017-02-27 16:25:42 UTC

By making what's impossible-possible, students may find new ways of doing things that others have not thought of. If these new ways of doing involve improvements to identify needs and challenges they have spotted the opportunity. They turn ideas into action. Learn how to be responsible. Develop community initiative.
Take risks and solve problems.

Mariarosaria -Italy

2017-02-27 16:29:52 UTC

From life there are many situations:
to develop an attitudine to think
to develop awareness and self confidence...
There is always a chance to spot an opportunity: it' s need to catch the right moment and suitable action. Our teacher's role is crucial as mentoring and facilitating these actions..

Teresa Meli (Italy)

meliter1 — 2017-02-27 16:47:46 UTC

Learning to see things from other perspective is very interesting.

2017-02-27 16:52:21 UTC

By making something possible, you will find new ways of doing things that others have not thought of. If these new ways of doing things involve products, you have show an opportunity to your students.

Valerica- ROMANIA

dvaly2010 — 2017-02-27 16:53:44 UTC

As I teach young students, I think it is very good to involve them in such activities as how to save money, how to take decisions in different economic situations. We use to have activities when students spend few hours at teir parents work and learn about their parents daily activity.

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2017-02-27 17:24:42 UTC

Taking responsibilities and initiatives is a good start for socializing our students. They could organize bazaars, write a newspaper and help their parents at work.

ΑFRODITI, THESSALONIKI, GREECE. Students

2017-02-27 17:42:48 UTC

Students can manage the school canteen. Τhey learn to collaborate, to take responsabilities, τhey develop awareness of money and work.

Antonietta, Italy

miaaba — 2017-02-27 18:00:11 UTC

I often ask my students "what is it like to be..... " in order to make them see things from a different perspective. I think it's very important for them to put themselves in other people's role. They develop awareness and become able to size opportunity in a right way, to solve problems peacefully and to achieve their aims correctly.

Juanlusz

2017-02-27 18:02:26 UTC

When students make mistakes as they are learning the foreign language, empower them to spot this situation as a chance to reflect,
assess and improve the language.

Nora, como

noraroxane — 2017-02-27 18:14:50 UTC

I try to put my students in front of real situations ( debate, book lauch etc) and I observe their communication and problem solving ability. I thing it's very important to students to learn team work and become awares of their skills

Rosa, Italy

2017-02-27 18:16:49 UTC

I pur my students in front of real situations to analize their problem solving. They learn to work in Team.

Camelia, Romania

2017-02-27 18:53:14 UTC

In my class I try to encourage students to work in teams, hold skills of collaboration and support

Virginia, Italy

2017-02-27 19:08:19 UTC

I work as a rehabilitation therapist, mostly in physical therapy, and often suggest to my patients, especially younger patients, to use our material and our spaces in new ways, it's fun and gives new perspectives and opportunities: recently an adult woman with diplegia from birth, she eventually learned to mobilize the spine playing as a cat, and wearing a tail :)

Elida, Lithuania

daile — 2017-02-27 19:43:29 UTC

The small school fair. Ceramic artworks

Iuliana, Romania

iulyanaivan — 2017-02-27 19:57:46 UTC

I belive that through transdisciplinarty activities believe that through can practising theat competence.

Giuseppe, Italy

2017-02-27 20:05:16 UTC

I have asked may pupils two simple questions: "What's you pastime? Which job whould you like to do as a grown up?" Just listening to their mates, they learn to watch life from different perspectives.

Claudia de Crescenzo

2017-02-27 20:18:40 UTC

In my school I designed and managed a course about organizing events.

giulia, italy

2017-02-27 21:12:06 UTC

I create a subject that is called THE FUTURE and one hour a week they have to work about it with their ideas creating something new

Paola, Italy

sinipas — 2017-02-27 21:27:06 UTC

My third year students are involved in a project based learning activity in which they simulate an enterpreneurship, a project that will last for the last three years at school. We are still in the initial phases, and it is evident that this kind of activity is somehow creating a rather visible disconcert both among the teachers involved but also among the students who seem puzzled at the possibility of having to take decisions over their own plan!

Adriana Laze Albania

adrianalaze — 2017-02-27 21:44:38 UTC

I often try with my students to be more entrepreneur . So I create a situation in the classroom , in which they have to put themselves and then they have to
solve the situation in which I have put them in.

Jose Joaquin Ortiz Rozo

2017-02-27 22:58:23 UTC

Colombia - Latin America
It's important to ask for questions to our students, this motivate them to express themselves through their dreams, goals, expectations. For example a good questions could be: What is your dream?

Francesco Coppola, Italy

fscocoppola — 2017-02-28 08:38:44 UTC

Two students, who are living in country and the other in the city, see a video about pollution.
After I will ask them a comment on the content of the video.
We will analyze the different way of judging.
I will show them their different interpretations.

salvatore catalanotti

2017-02-28 08:55:00 UTC

I will promote 'in my school, how they can use the external spaces to the attivita' of non-coded physical education.

Ida, Italy

2017-02-28 09:27:44 UTC

In my school the EE is improved organizing charity activity, expositions, events and craft laboratory.

Constantinos, Cyprus

ckalapodas — 2017-02-28 10:21:28 UTC

Due to the structure of the curriculum (prepared and made centrally by the Ministry) there are not many opportunities to work with in-class subjects. There are several competitions that students can participate that are in different subjects or cross-curriculum) that do help spot opportunities to develop innovative ideas. The local programming and Robot competition enable students to develop their own ideas and use part of their knowledge gained at school to participate in those competitions and actually succeed!

Irène - Belgium

irene_indemans1 — 2017-02-28 10:39:41 UTC

In my school, we add the subject 'Social activities' to each student's curriculum, during one period a week. Since we are a comprehensive middle school during the first two years of secondary education for 12- to 14-year-olds, students don't have to make a curriculum choice for general, technical or arts education immediately after their primary education. So during the SA-course, we especially invest in learning activities, developing entrepreneurial skills which support their study curriculum choice and their career planning.

Emma, Sweden

emma_l_dawson1 — 2017-02-28 12:43:58 UTC

We have class council and school council which would be a perfect way to encourage our students to think entrepreneurially. Often they are very good at spotting problems but want the adults to fix it. They could be empowered to problem solving as well.

Ivana, Croatia

iduspara1 — 2017-02-28 12:51:36 UTC

In my school we all try to connected knowledge with real life situations. Especially, I try to put mathematics in every day situations and in to needs of real life

Daniela Spinella Reggio Calabria/Italy

daniela_spinella — 2017-02-28 12:54:52 UTC

In my program i have been able to experience with my students this situation in activity simulation of company especially in part started when the project should observe the territory to discover the opportunities that this reserve and critical emerging they turn into strengths to be valued and weaknesses to be resolved

Sonia Italyt

2017-02-28 13:06:08 UTC

There are many ways to spot opportunities. In my previous school, there was a school council with two reps of each class. This school council gives the students the opportunity to raise issues and come up with ideas to solve them.
The Citizenship class could also be dedicated to spot opportunities and come up with an action plan in small groups. (Improving the school infrastructures, helping local community, improving reading and writing competence amongst the youngest ones...) My old school was a British School in Spain where most students were Spaniards. Older students from Secondary were going to Primary classes to read stories in English to the youngest ones and promote English reading.
In order to promote entrepreneurship we need to provide some discussion time in our lessons.

Maria Antonietta, Italy

2017-02-28 13:38:22 UTC

In my class students work in team about creative and innovative ideas.

Mara, Italy

mara_mosca77 — 2017-02-28 14:45:56 UTC

I'm an English teacher in a vocational school. My students will hopefully become chefs or anyway they will work in food & beverage. A way to foster their competences is to use their creativity in what they do and cook but also to use this creativity to create new things! Setting a menu and cooking it for the local old people hospice can be an excellent idea to put in act!

Daniela - Italy

2017-02-28 15:14:40 UTC

Sometimes pupils do the wrong things and they don't think about the consequences. In order to make them aware of what is wrong or right I 'd like to do a role playing about some wrong behaviours and let them do a SWOT

Angela, Italy

angelabartolini1 — 2017-02-28 15:15:46 UTC

I think that you can seek opportunities if you’re curious enough to observe things in many different ways. This is what I try to do with my students, encouraging their curiosity.

Daniele - Italy

danvir — 2017-02-28 16:00:07 UTC

Suggest ways for your school to support the empowerment of students in spotting opportunities.
A very nice idea is the use of QR-code connected to places, asking students how to get them better (the use of apps and smartphone is motivating too).
I teach humanities and so I think that for my subjects it could be easier to work about thinking in a different perspective. Literature in general allows you to see the things in a different way, discovering the thoughts of various authors sometimes far in space and time. You can plan an activity in which you ask the student to think how that character (historical or not) should act or think.
Obviously with history and geography we have to work on the valorisation of the territory in which the school is. We can go on the places, asking students what they would do for getting them better.
Also cooperative learning force students to work together for reaching a common goal. A good idea should be to insert creativity criteria into the evaluation grid. So they will be more motivated in thinking differently.

Marianna, Italy

2017-02-28 16:07:37 UTC

In my school is totally absent the enterpreneurial mind set in teaching.
So, I try to improve my students mind set with some activities.
For example, learning geography my students created brochure for some tours among Europe cities.
Another activity is to improve students talents in cooking. So I created a Masterchef challenge with different foods from different counties in the world.
Unfortunately these activities are not structural into curricula, but they come from my ideas and creativity of my students

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

soleemare_a — 2017-02-28 16:28:07 UTC

Fostering an entrepreneurship mind could help identifying school problems and needs, coming up with creative solutions for the benefit of all the school community. A good strategy could be trying to look at things from various perspectives. For example students could be asked to identity some needs annd challenges at school in order to propose innovative ideas on how to use facilities or how to improve the use of those facilities. Asking them what they would do if the school was theirs seems a very great strategy.

Carla Asquini Italy

2017-02-28 16:50:37 UTC

I think PBL represents a good opportunity for teachers to foster entrepreneurial skills in their students. An apparently simple task like to create a logo of the project may not only motivate the students but also engage them in a communicative process involving higher order skills

Camilla, Italy

camilla_ciaccia — 2017-02-28 17:01:37 UTC

Even the lack of material for our activities becomes an opportunity which help my students think of alternative ways to solve the problem due to this lack (for example: what could I use as an alternative?, How can I get money to buy p
aper or crayons?). It is a way to foster entrepreneurial skills in my students.

Luigi. Italy

Italianteacher — 2017-02-28 17:10:26 UTC

To propose students to suggest ideas about school problems and needs could help to find out innovative solutions for the benefit of all the school users. I think it could be very useful to put them in other people's role. They could develop awareness, sense of responsability and become able to collaborate in a right way, to solve problems and to achieve aims correctly.

Mafalda Lapa, Portugal

mafalda_lapa — 2017-02-28 17:14:38 UTC

My students wanted to make a field trip in my science class that is very expensive so we decided to make , in christmas, a minerals and fossils fair where we sold materials from a shop from the school's town and part of the profit was given to the school. The money was used to pay the field trip.
I think we can spott oportunities in a lot of ways. But we have to have time to implement the ideas.

Breda, Slovenia

2017-02-28 17:31:56 UTC

In my country there is not much possibility to include the enrepreneurship into curriculum, but with small group of students I try to work on financial literacy (extracuricular activity). I think that is also important.

Enrica Maragliano - Italy

EMGe — 2017-02-28 17:40:09 UTC

In Italy since last two years schools have to give the opportunity to students to take part to "Alternanza Scuola Lavoro" (Alternating School/Work) activities but at the moment these opportunities are not well used: students have often to listen to boring lectures by other teachers about improbable topics or they must attend strange kinds of "jobs" (often not related with their branch of studies and often not related the ones to the others); so the general impression is that they loose their time. Probably a solution it would be the "Simulated Enterprise" that is provided for by law but is often too difficult to achieve for schools. In my school the person who deals with combined school / work activities is a teacher of ancient Greek who has only and ever worked in school.

Cristina, Italy

2017-02-28 17:48:35 UTC

Alternanza scuola/lavoro (Alternance school/work) in the secondary high school give students the chance to change ideas into real opportunity.

Francesca_italy

francesca_neiviller — 2017-02-28 18:03:43 UTC

I think that school is the best place where students can foster their abilities of developing entrepreneurial skills, in Italy it has recently been introduced a new programme that is "Alternanza Scuola Lavoro," where students can learn by doing, where they study and work. I
t's a very important change in the method of offering and providing education.

Sonia, Italy

sonia_bbn32 — 2017-02-28 18:05:52 UTC

It would be important to develop creative thinking to solve problems as viewed from other perspectives the problem. I have often used the technique of brainstorming in classrooms. Another good technique is role-playing.

Giovanni, Italy

2017-02-28 18:07:52 UTC

In my country at the middle school there is not an entrepreneurial mind-set in the subjects, but I teach my students the lateral thinking and the problem-solving

Nicole, Italy

2017-02-28 18:19:41 UTC

I try to have the children collaborate in projects as much as possible and apply the skills they are learning to everyday skills. I have also had them develop travel brochures as part of a Geography/English project on persuasive texts.
I think the children would also benefit from getting more involved in solving problems that arise in the school environment and offering solutions to these problems themselves, i.e. food wastage in the canteen. This helps them "buy into" the problem and solution and the outcomes are more likely to be successful if they come from the children as it increases their sense of ownership into projects.

Caterina, Italy

2017-02-28 18:36:24 UTC

I work in a Vocational School. I think my students need to be innovative to create their job as chef. They like to know which food is healthy or unhealthy from me but I suggest them to look products labels at the supermarket and then discuss about it during the lesson. In this way I stimolate their

Carmela, Italy

postiglionecarmela — 2017-02-28 18:38:46 UTC

As a teacher in a technical school for tourism I generally ask my students to simulate activities in particular settings, such as a travel agency where they have to deal with all the tasks a travel agent has to accomplish.
The making of an itinerary, for example, gives them the opportunity to be creative and willing to do always their own best.

Çelebi, TURKEY

muallim3858 — 2017-02-28 19:09:15 UTC

My students made bags of old clothes and sold them. They learned the concept of innovation while designing the case, and the concept of innovation when selling it.

Maria Horgos/Romania

maria_horgos — 2017-02-28 20:08:48 UTC

A great initiative of our students was the manufacture of traditional talismans (Martisoare) to celebrate the coming of spring with eco- friendly materials. These talismans were sold to theircolleagues and teachers and the money raised was used for humanitarian purposes

Claudia, Italy

claudia_furlanetto — 2017-02-28 20:33:01 UTC

In my school, Human Sciences Liceo, we have made last month an innovative experience of Alternanza scuola/lavoro (for the second time in two years). We have organized one week without lessons and with creative laboratories and seminars about relationships with teachers and students. Some teachers and external experts created laboratories and seminaries where the students could make creative thinks and thoughts, or innoval practices. Furthermore my  students are involved in a project based learning activity in which they simulate an cooperative enterprise, that creates touch books for blind children.  The experience includes: 2 communication laboratories (person-centered approach by C. Rogers); 1 not violence laboratory; 1 fairy tale laboratory  for exploring themselves; 1 art studio with mud masks, 1 studio to produce touch books for blind children, 1 musical studio inspired to the method Orff etc. There were approximately 10 laboratories for 130 students (third year Human Sciences Liceo). The activities have involved the students for 30 hours. The project-purpose consists of creating a entrepreneurial attitude and a creative learning climate.

Iolanda

iolnap — 2017-02-28 21:22:53 UTC

Students at my school with  project alternanza scuola/lavoro, follow lectures and then in teams must solve a problem.
Another way to develop creative thonking is to use cooperative learning.

Orestina, Italy

orestinaonofri — 2017-02-28 21:36:41 UTC

I work in a Linguistic Secondary School and every year we organise a stage abrode which includes a language course.
This year I asked the class I am going to accompany to organise all the extra visits and leisure activities after the morning course and it is amasing the variety of things they are arranging. They also tend to wear our (teachers) shoes, organising theatre shows and visits to museums. Of course, booling and discos aren't missing as well...

Cinzia Fiorentini

2017-02-28 22:35:49 UTC

Every each 13-year-aged students from our last class organize an activity to present the school to future pupils. Teachers help them but the ideas come from the students. It is interesting to see how proud are they of the presentation.

Wilson Canelo/Colombia

2017-03-01 02:26:51 UTC

Some ways I suggest are: If You were a teacher how to improve use of ICT for teaching better; If You were a librarian, what tech I would implement to make the place more interesting; and instead of grading, what other way of evaluation would You suggest.

Giuseppina - Italy

2017-03-01 07:18:10 UTC

There are many situations in which learners can develop opportunities: at school and in the community. They have to learn how to think positive and how to handle with ideas. Important is to consider different point of views. Things that seem impossible to realize can become concrete by solving some problems, find a suitable solution and making decisions. An entrepreneur will challange his possibilities and create opportunities for him and the others

ALINA POPA -ROMANIA

popalina21 — 2017-03-01 11:11:14 UTC

I am technology teacher and often I ask my kids to come with innovative pleasure work for laboratory classes regarding to create some easy made recipes for cooking lab . So , the ideas are great and the work always is a pleasure , even there are not so many material tools in the school .

Lina Steponavičienė

2017-03-01 13:15:50 UTC

I am teacher of physics and IT. I try to encourage students to work in teams, hold skills of collaboration and support.

Ivana, Croatia

iduspara1 — 2017-03-01 13:17:10 UTC

I teach math in elementary school. One suggestion how to motivate kids to creative thinking. We can ask them how can we organize and decorate classroom. What materials to use? How many money do we need? How to get money? ...

Marija, Serbia

2017-03-01 13:46:44 UTC

I teach banking in secondary school. Some of my students get tasks to play a role of different types of clients. Some of them get tasks to be bank tellers. The bank teller has a task to persuade the client to take a loan. The bank teller has to spot how to aproach the client.

Evridiki Gkori, Greece

eurydicegkori — 2017-03-01 15:00:09 UTC

I teach English as a Foreign Language in a Junior High School. Last year I designed a possible eTwinning project for the PBL MOOC "How can we make our school more student-friendly?" You have been assigned by the Ministry of Education to prepare a report providing tangible suggestions on how your can make your school more student friendly. You compare your school with your partners' in terms of building, facilities, lessons, food canteen, personnel, rules, attendance etc. https://v.gd/jigX8M. I haven't been able to implement it yet but I think that it could be a good way to support entrepreneurial thinking.

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

psaridou — 2017-03-01 15:07:40 UTC

Last year during a lesson about feelings, some students express their feelings about our school yard. The school yard was rather ugly and non friendly for students at that moment. I urged them to share their ideas about how they imagine a friendly school yard must be. From that time a school project occured and we tried to implement the whole school and local community into it. Progress was made, however since Greece has financial problems we couldn't reach the point the students liked.

Cristina Soutinho, Portugal. I'm a teacher trainer now and I try to promote focus, making my fellow colleagues think about what their students might gain by introducing entrepreneurial challenges in their subjects, new teaching methodologies and ICT tools as well.

2017-03-01 15:20:49 UTC

Paula Lemos, Portugal

2017-03-01 16:22:05 UTC

· In primary school, entrepreneurship education objectives are expressed as being transversal across different subjects. Activities can be developed in an interdisciplinary way. We can implement different projects, promoted by national or international organizations, like Eco-schools. So, there are spotting opportunities given to students in ours schools. But still we need to have more teachers to be aware of these issues.

Mariarosaria (Italy)

ropep — 2017-03-01 17:28:05 UTC

I teach in a upper secondary school. I teach accountancy and my subject is very suitable for an entreprenurship education.
I always invite my students to play the variuos role concerning for example a business plan, or a balance sheet.
But I think this innovative method should be used in every subject because it's a method not an aim

Angeliki Kougiourouki, Greece

akougiou — 2017-03-01 17:50:51 UTC

I develop an environmental project this year with the title "Young entrepreneurs create in nature" One of our activities was to collect olives from the trees, elaborate them and then sale them during the school's Christmas Bazar. Imagine pupils' faces when they earned their first 5 euros!!!

Cristina Costea (România)

2017-03-01 18:02:36 UTC

This week in our country, we celebrate spring: it begins from 1st of march to the 8 th of march - Mother'' s day. That''s why our students manufactured and trade for themselves traditional talismans (martisoare). These talismans were sold to their colleagues and parents and the money raised was used for humanitarian purposes - a collegue suffers for cancer and needed money for treatment in Italy...

Alena, Czech Republic

tabor1 — 2017-03-01 18:15:01 UTC

Entrepreneurship is among others about actions, new perspectives and creativity.
I teach history and often ask my students to create and write/tell stories of ordinary people of that period. Or after visiting an gallery with paintings about our history, they chose one painting and made a video telling a story of that painting (based on historic facts, but going further) - I was astonished by their ideas and quality of transcripts. :-)
Our town organizes meetings with citizens to learn about problems they face. The students attended the meeting, suggested problems and worked on possible solutions (even in international teams, as we had an Erasmus+ meeting at that time.

Beate, Germany

2017-03-01 18:32:36 UTC

At our grammar school we ran an eTwinning project entitled: 'Let's make a change' where we considered what could be improved at school or in the wider community. Pupils eventually ran a 'school cleaning campaign', organized a 'Make a difference day' in which they sold their toys to get funds for the newly arrived refugee kids and eventually could finance 'German - Arabian dictionaries for them; they ran a campaign to collect plastic lids to support a campaign for polio vaccination in other countries, they even initiated a learning campaign about different cultures for other kids.

Maria Daniela, Italy

mariadaniela_renna — 2017-03-01 18:44:08 UTC

I come from South of Italy and, in this context, I want to mention the important initiative of a secondary school of Lecce (close to my city). The students created MaBasta, an anti bullying student movement for a national campaign against bullying. This is a real example of spotting opportunities.

David, Spain

david_galiana — 2017-03-01 18:56:04 UTC

I try to teach Math using real situations and real problems, with non-unique answer. It helps pupils to think and decide taking into account objective and subjective facts. We also have the Math Olympics where students can prove their ability solving "different problems" that require a different way of thinking.

Steph, Italy

2017-03-01 19:11:32 UTC

Put problems on the whiteboard in the morning to get children thinking and working together.

Sertan BALLI,Turkey

2017-03-01 19:25:25 UTC

I try to teach students how to think from a different point by using 30 circles. I ask them "what do they mean to you" . And they draw different shapes from them.

Douglas, Brazil

douglas_ropelato — 2017-03-01 19:33:38 UTC

Detect opportunities ...
I liked the idea "from the point of view", from a historical person, to ask the student to develop a narrative from known facts.

Melanie, Malta

2017-03-01 19:45:39 UTC

I involve my students in eTwinning projects where they have to collaborate with other students from other countries to produce something/learn together. We discuss goals, plan of action, creative ways of achieving those goals. I see a great difference in the students from start to finish of the project...they are so more self-assured and confident.

Maria Celona (Italy)

2017-03-01 19:48:29 UTC

The opportunity is to identify new scenarios in which fit to win new successes.

Çelebi, TURKEY

muallim3858 — 2017-03-01 19:48:47 UTC

I create problem scenarios that students will encounter in everyday life. I want them to find the solution. I use 6 hat thinking techniques.

Emel BOZKURT, TURKEY

mlaydn — 2017-03-01 20:59:28 UTC

I provide strategic thinking with intelligence games

Maria A. Mayol, Spain

2017-03-01 21:20:58 UTC

As a technology teacher I encourage my students to try to find solutions to real problems: in the workshop creating different projects (for example birdhouses to put in the school garden; to create solar ovens and cook with them;... as a solution to certain problems or challenges) or in class, working in groups or individually (doing a campaign against plastic waste in the oceans; ...).

Argiro Zikouli, Greece

2017-03-01 21:26:25 UTC

In a psychology course about experiments and hypothesis testing, I had the students walk around the corridors, observe people's behaviour and form hypotheses to be tested later with an experiment

Maricarmen Martínez- México

2017-03-02 01:45:54 UTC

In the class, in Social Sciences, we encourage each other to promote values. The project consists in creating an item or a situation where all the community can experience that value. Maybe respect, responsibility, or even friendship. And my students have created almost everything! From notebooks, to pens or running shoes! Creativity and innovation is the key!

Maria Sourgiadaki, Greece

2017-03-02 07:41:41 UTC

My thoughts, in my learning diary: http://mypdcourses.blogspot.gr/2017/03/13-spotting-opportunities.html

Veronica (Italy)

2017-03-02 09:08:37 UTC

I teach English in a vocational school, and there all events and festivities become spotting opportunities for the pupils and their future profession; they are encouraged to seize each work opportunity not just to show their ability but to create and test their own idea of their job; I always invite them to think 'European', to learn foreign languages not just for final marks but to experience a new sense of the world they live

Reda

reda_raciuviene — 2017-03-02 09:57:39 UTC

The best that teachers could do is to provide their students with the tasks which require probem solving skills. There are always real problems at school or society that have to be solved and students can help to find the best solutions. If their ideas, solutions are appreciated and fullfilled, they will feel the importance of capability to solve the problem properly and try to do their best. Everything in this process has to be real.

Sonia Ancona(Italy)

2017-03-02 13:54:09 UTC

The situation of life where spotting opportunities could be fostered is the stage in companies for alternating training. Students must be able to trasform the stage in an opportunity for their future

Elena Volpicella (Italy)

elena_volpe64 — 2017-03-02 15:30:50 UTC

I teach special needs in a secondary school with students from 11/14/years. In my class each activity proceed about "learning by doing laboratories" where all students can discover their talent and know what is the best way to improve own skills: in this way they can really spotting opportunities

Giuseppa Adriana

2017-03-02 17:32:39 UTC

I think problem solving and blended learning should be more used, as learners find motivating working in situation where they are protagonist of their learning process.

Donata

donata_sartor — 2017-03-02 17:40:00 UTC

Everytime there is an important event in our Community, in our town, students of my school (agricoltural school) could be in charge of decorating with plants and flowers the locations in which they take place (centre of the town, theatre...). They could also contribute to mantain public garden and take care of old trees.
Maybe also design botanical tours for younger students.

Alessandro / Italy

2017-03-02 17:49:27 UTC

I think the best way to foster spotting opportunity is to create authentic learning situations where students have real opportunities to develop their entrepreneurial inspiring, their autonomy and their able to creativity. I give them a real problem to solve, a real case to role playing and overall when they work in team you can observe the dynamic of group and see which opportunity each student puts in practice.

Manuela / Ital

manman3 — 2017-03-02 19:05:45 UTC

I think students can learn how to spot opportunities starting by the most common problems they face at school, provided we lead them to imagine solutions and experiment them.

Elisa/Italy

elisa_spina83 — 2017-03-02 19:19:10 UTC

I agree with most of the comments. I think the best way to spot opportunity is to learn from autentic and real contest.
There are a lot moment (in class and outside i.g. when students are playing in the garden and they have to solve some conflict or decide which game they want to play) expecially with young children to put them into the situation to learn, to solve, to manage a different problem. Everithing shoud be connect to real life.

Maria Vasilopoulou, Greece

mbasilopoulou — 2017-03-02 20:05:28 UTC

Project work and interdisciplinary approach are two basic tools we adopt in my school to help our students spot opportunities. School clubs is a further way. A simple example is our school club " Routes" where students have the opportunity to become young tour guides in different destinations we choose. Careful guidance is provided, students become independent learners and truly enjoy it.

Isabella - Italy

2017-03-02 21:19:32 UTC

An exemple of spotting opportunities can be to propose to the students to think as if they were the teacher: they have to think to a subject for a lesson and explain it trying to foster the attention in the classroom. This way they can think to their behaviour and find the best way to stay and learn in the class.

Nina (Ukraine)

2017-03-02 21:24:52 UTC

I think my students can have a challenge. They dont like to eat in our school canteen , so they could think how to solve this problem. we have some free space near the school, so they could decide how to use it

Stefania, Italy

scatanossi — 2017-03-02 21:25:42 UTC

I also agree with most of the comments, but I find particularly interesting the idea of the use of QR codes. I think helpful every task in wich the students can express themselves and at the same time look in a different perspective.

Arabela, Romania

2017-03-02 21:40:39 UTC

I agree with the comments and I think in our school the students can identify a way to transform our garden in a park.In this moment we cannot use our garden.Is empty and ugly.

Teresa, Italy

teresacasa — 2017-03-02 21:43:34 UTC

I teach French in a VET School for gastronomic services and hotel hospitality, so we work in a contest where there are several workbased situations and events that encourage the development of an entrepreneurial mindset . But what needs to change is the mindset of many teachers of so-called traditional disciplines that need to change and adapt their didactic to this new way to teach to develop personal and professional skills, to contribute to the formation of trained and responsible citizens, able to create better living conditions for themselves and for others.

Marisa Badini , Italy

2017-03-02 22:10:34 UTC

I think we can start at early age to foster entrepreneurship, just giving our pupils some "flipped way"to consider reality. I sometimes propose to change perspective and find solutions in everyday life. Anyway I think Ihave lot to understand about.! I really appreciate the videos, that point out very clear concepts and examples .

Ana, Azores

Ana_Rosa_Furtado — 2017-03-02 23:02:53 UTC

I´m a Math teacher and i think that the purpose of this discipline it’s solving problems.
But it’s a “problem” to improve that skills in the students...

Mariangela, Italy

mariangela_biel — 2017-03-03 08:58:45 UTC

The first thing we can do to foster this competence is to give students an active role in their learning process through PBL and problem solving approaches. If they work collaboratively on a real task they have the chance to be creative and to turn ideas into actions to carry it out. They can also spot opportunities in that they can realize what their strong or weak points are.

Activities as the cat activity suggested here are very interesting and engaging to encourage students to take different perspective. I will try it!

Kasia Zawiła-Dudzik, Poland

2017-03-03 10:08:59 UTC

In many schools in Poland there are pupil goverments. However, in primary schools teachers who are pupil goverment mentors take more responsibility than students. And I think that empowering students in pupil goverments in spotting opportunities whould be a good way to change this situation.

Edda, Italy

edda_caracino — 2017-03-03 15:18:58 UTC

I teach Maths and English in a Primary school.I love working with class - Projects and interdisciplinary approach: I think it helps my young students to spot opportunuties, even inside a curricolo.Children are more involved, they learn to work together exchanging their ideas and discussing what they think.

Joel,Venezuela

joelramonph — 2017-03-03 15:19:49 UTC

Mi experiencia es poca en la creación de la mentalidad emprendedora en jovenes, sin embargo pienso que la mejor forma de crear esas experiencias es observar y actuar sobre los problemas.

Alina Popa-Romania

popalina21 — 2017-03-03 16:53:22 UTC

When students are given dues/duties thay become more responsable. When they receive a good feed-back from me they become more encouriging. When they receive a help from me they become more creative. We had in school a big project about economic entrepreneurial work and they have done great presentations with great ideas and a lot of work. I think this is spotting and offering a way for make students to think and become entrepreneurs in thinking.

emma giurlani Italy

2017-03-03 17:25:37 UTC

I find eTwinning projects can help a lot to foster entrepreneurial thinking because they consist basically in PBL and foster creativity , critical thinking and a sensibility to responsible work in team . When my students try to find a creative solution to a driving question posed by starting our projects , they develop a stronger sense of responsibility and become more creative. I think EE can be started at any age and a good way of empowering students skills giving them the chance to develop the "ability to turn ideas into action through creativity, innovation, and risk-taking as well as the ability to plan and manage projects" can be given through eTwinning projects

Francesco, Italy

babelemultilab — 2017-03-03 17:42:11 UTC

In order to develop entrepreneurial skills, our school has adopted a simulated company project that allows students to experiment with the creation and management of an innovative company in one of the areas related to academic subjects. This experience is still ongoing but it appears to have had a positive effect on the skills of our students. Info: https://boffra.wixsite.com/frutta-e-verdura

Clara Abegão, Portugal

claraabegao — 2017-03-03 17:44:51 UTC

I believe that situations that stimulate entrepreneurship can be easily created in the classroom or in another learning environment. The teacher should perceive the classroom as a "discussion room" where the diversity of opinions, responses and solutions are promoted. In my case, I try to focus on learning based on concrete and interdisciplinary projects, I use ITC tools and creative teaching methods and tools. In moments of evaluation, I value both the solution and the way to get there, and I consider error and failure as important parts of the learning process. I try to promote active, collaborative, student-centered learning environments where transversal competencies such as teamwork, critical thinking, communication skills, leadership, autonomy, project management, time management, strategic thinking and creativity are valued.

Betty-Greece

2017-03-03 17:54:02 UTC

Spotting opportunity could be to read a story and then children re-create that story or ask for them to be a teacher.

Anna,Italy

anna_palumbo1 — 2017-03-03 17:58:17 UTC

The introduction in Italian Schools of the "Alternanza Scuola /lavoro" is an opportunity for students to enter, observe, think about enterprenourial experiences, I teach in a"Liceo scientifico" and my students have followed the experts' lecture with interest and have produced personal activities of high quality. This can show us that creativity should be stimulated and taught!

NEAGOE SIMONICA,ROMANIA

2017-03-03 18:47:09 UTC

Within hours of technological education students making objects from recycled materials that they can sell and can get bani.In Within this action can recycle and learn from recyclable materials as possible to manufacture useful things.

barbaradipa — 2017-03-03 20:19:21 UTC

BARBARA, ITALY
In one of the 2 junior high schools (same central school, but in different towns with different Councils) where I teach there is the kids town Council with pupils voted and elected by their schoolmates and making real proposals to improve their own school, as their town Council really provides money for these improvements, when possible. In both schools, teachers foster the students by project works, problem solving, scientific methods and experiments, free or low cost workshops.

Two years ago I organized a “cold” cooking workshop (as we have no kitchen) and a group of male students of 13-14 (no female participated) were so industrious and learnt not only what to cook (local healthy food), but also how and without wasting food (sustainability) and were proud of themselves… and full up of course! http://laboratoriterzaa.blogspot.it/

Creativity, sense of initiative, team work, planning, sustainability and self-confidence are necessary as in everyday life.

Violeta Korkucyte, the UK

violeta7519 — 2017-03-03 21:16:12 UTC

I think it is very important to support students in spotting the opportunities and finding the solutions to the problems from a very young age. They can be encouraged to spot the opportunities of how to recycle, improve behaviour in the school/classroom. They can also be supported in thinking of raising money for the school's garden project.

Violeta Korkucyte, the UK

violeta7519 — 2017-03-03 21:23:06 UTC

eTwining projects are very useful in empowering students in spotting opportunities. Students are more motivated and engaged when the activities are from real life.

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Daniela Ambrosi, Perugia Italy

2017-03-03 22:15:47 UTC

In Umbria there are many small rich reality of history and art, students could take a cue from them and create inovative forms of enterprise, both in terms of tourism, both restoration

Melissa Esposito. Italy

melissa_esposito — 2017-03-03 22:48:18 UTC

I teach in a upper secondary school and my students attend "Alternanza scuola-lavoro" (Turnover school-work). During this period students are stimulated to create for example new objects useful for everyday life. My students are very enthusiastics

Michela Di Candia, Italy

2017-03-03 23:52:26 UTC

My school encourages students to get involved in fundraising activities for local charities. They use their artwork and turn it into fundraising products for parents and relatives to purchase. They design and sell items depending on the time of year. These events improve the atmosphere at school and have long-term effects on the part of both teachers and pupils.

Caterina Speranza Italy

caterinasperanza17 — 2017-03-04 07:36:57 UTC

Really interesting.
I will do it in my classroom!
I teach in primary school where the enterpreneur education is not still designed but kids are ready. They do it naturally

Despoina Founta Greece

2017-03-04 08:09:52 UTC

The children could create a vegetable garden in the school yard and then be able to sell their vegetables at a bazaar

Slavica, Macedonia

2017-03-04 08:30:38 UTC

At the moment my students are encouraged to develop their entrepreneurship skills by constructing a school they would like to have using Minecraft. They are very engaged, they spot opportunities, suggest ideas and make them possible through Minecraft. It is fanstic experience for me as well as for them. They are solving a real life problem, relevant for them and are empowered through a game they know and want to play. They suggest terrific ideas for our garden, school facilities and are an excellent team. When they are ready with the project we are going to make a video - virtual trip around our school and participate in a video competition .

Teresio Alberto Italy

teresio_alberto — 2017-03-04 08:49:25 UTC

My students often prepare culinary delights together with their parents in order to get money when they sell during special school events as concerts or plays put on by themselves

Sónia Fonseca

2017-03-04 09:11:37 UTC

I try to encourage my young students to participate in projects that will help them develop their creativity and see things from a different perspective.

Carina, Sweden

carina_hafren — 2017-03-04 12:29:58 UTC

I think we have to be good examples for the students. We should be creative, flexible and spotting opportunities. If we don´t do that, the students won´t see the opportunities either. In my school we always look outside the schoolbuilding, what´s important for real (sounds better in Swedish). If it´s important with valuemaking for others or a real problem to solve in collaboration and with a real receiver of the result, the motivation is increasing!
One example from my school: we learn about health in different perspectives; science and civics, languages and physical training et cetera.
Then the students find a problem in health in the community or in Sweden to solve. Some of them went to primary schools talking about sugar, some of them went to preeschool to show games and exercises to improve the physical health amongst children others went to younger students to talk about bullying and the effects of that etc etc. Engaging, motivating and a great result. Valuemaking for others!

Edda, Italy

edda_caracino — 2017-03-04 12:46:21 UTC

Donatella, Italy

donatella_foddai — 2017-03-04 13:00:42 UTC

My school engages students in many different projects and activities where they are exposed to new and diversified contexts, making easier to spot opportunities. Much more difficult, in my opinion, is to create favourite contexts and perpectives inside the ordinary lessons. A variety of methodologies and approaches adopted, help to create conditions in which a student in spotting opportunities.

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dargi1 — 2017-03-04 15:35:42 UTC

In my school, students are involved in projects whose task is to develop the idea of entrepreneurship, such as the simulation of enterprise. I think it's a way to stimulate and support the sense of creativity and the need of changes typical in young students.

dargi1 — 2017-03-04 15:35:43 UTC

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Anna,Italy

annaliardi84 — 2017-03-04 18:21:29 UTC

I teach Italian and history in a hotel management school in Sicily and I like to keep up to date, because even in the era of globalization we must try to give more to these students for you to stay back and not have the opportunity to bring forward their ideas. Not all teachers are ready for these change

Goretti, Canary Island

laleli150 — 2017-03-04 19:13:16 UTC

Usually students are asked about what they care about and what they change. From there, a small improvement project is made

Gustavo Gallardo, Mexico.

2017-03-04 20:54:53 UTC

The first thing for me is that the teacher needs to be an example for the student, if the teacher doesnt have the initiative the student never is going to do the things with the same effort. You need to work in your initiative and later be with your students...

viki dogani, greece

2017-03-04 21:05:59 UTC

help other people who are poor or need help because they are old

Andrea, Italy

nicmau — 2017-03-04 21:28:30 UTC

I am a teacher of Science and Maths in a middle school in Tuscany. I appreciate working with other colleagues in interdisciplinary projects, e.g, last week I started a project in collaboration with the teacher of Italian and History. We asked our in 2nd year students (12-13 yrs) how would they promote the beauty of our region using ICT.
We think that students involved involved in these activities can learn skills like working togheter, sharing and discussing their ideas, creativity.

Tiziana ( Italy)

Tizianateacher — 2017-03-04 21:55:41 UTC

It is not easy to bring the outside world into the classroom but we do need to.
First of all, we should try to work on PBL and tasks which require our students' working online and in class while they are making discoveries.
The role of the teacher should be the one of a helper while the students can learn together by focussing on learning about new topics, dealing with problems about a specific topic and by trying to find a solution.
I teach English and my role should be to monitor their work while they are working.
Basically we should start with a problem and devolop ideas and solutions. It might be a simple questions like how can we better our school?
What should we do? What strategies would you need to work on the issue? Team work, PBL and more meaningful tasks need to be introduced at school so that our learners can really learn better and become ACTIVE LEARNERS.

Ana Pinheiro (Portugal)

aipinheiro — 2017-03-04 21:58:44 UTC

I have sought to motivate and engage my students to participate in various projects on various themes. These projects help students develop their knowledge and various skills such as critical thinking, creativity, participation, ..., find innovative answers. Involving students in projects allows them to reflect and look at things from other perspectives.

Maria Georgiadou (Greece)

mariageorgiadou — 2017-03-04 23:02:54 UTC

I am teacher of french in a junior high school and an etwinning ambassador . I appreciate a lot everything related to the entrepreneurship ,that's why I am here. I strongly believe that school has much more to offer to the students outside than inside it! The traditional model study -learn -being examined it's definitely finished,or it should be!No, in my country,there is no any subject related to the entrepreneurship.....But we do many things through the projects like etwinning,Erasmus+ etc
I appreciated so much the example with the cat and the different ways to see the world! Thanks

marina, Italy

2017-03-05 10:31:28 UTC

I think that the best way to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set is to identify problems and issues in their own surrondings and generate ideas, recognize opportunities in order to solve them. My students, during this school year, have started to learn computational thinking—ideas such as sequencing, conditionals (if this, then that), debugging, remixing, and iterative fixing and testing of programs. The students have been greatly involved in these projects and I think that is a good opportunity to foster new ideas and creativity.

Nadia, Italy

2017-03-05 10:54:30 UTC

Nadia

2017-03-05 10:54:30 UTC

I think I'll work on my ability in spotting opportunities together with my children! they always have lots of ideas and some of them are really good, actually! I will propose them to put themselves in someonelse's shoes and guess what their perceptions will be. I'll also ask them to point out the main daily problems they face in our school or in their city and what kind of solutions they spot to solve them....we'll see!

Kleri, Greece

2017-03-05 11:31:38 UTC

- be proactive
- spot und act on opportunities
- out of the school in the community
- within existing curricula

Çelebi, TURKEY

muallim3858 — 2017-03-05 11:43:42 UTC

My students said that they would see everything away because the eyes of the cat were attracted.
One of my students said that the cat is seeing the world in color because it has colored eyes.

Adina, Romania

2017-03-05 12:16:49 UTC

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

Bojana ,Macedonia

2017-03-05 13:41:12 UTC

Iam science teacher in primary school.Our school participates in projects with the Red Cross name PHV projects with human values ,students organize events to raise money for vulnerable groups in our community,like making jewelry, puppet show, homemade cakes

Maria, Italy

marinellagrassi3 — 2017-03-05 14:07:12 UTC

Working in a creative and innovative way is hard to understand for some of us teachers...but if we see the world with our students' eyes maybe we could foster an active learning and spot new opportunities for them. i'm trying to do this thing and I can see good results, especially using projects-based-learning as eTwinning.

Vita , Italia

monaco_vita — 2017-03-05 15:00:44 UTC

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

Emilia/Romania

Emilia_T22 — 2017-03-05 15:19:28 UTC

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.

Ida B.

2017-03-05 16:22:55 UTC

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.

Filomena Bianco, Italy

2017-03-05 17:01:53 UTC

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.

Sonia Sgrosso, Italy

sgrossosonia — 2017-03-05 17:37:44 UTC

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.

Fina, Catalonia

fvendrel — 2017-03-05 20:44:37 UTC

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!

maria georgiadou, Greece

mariageorgiadou — 2017-03-05 22:28:56 UTC

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!

Giorgia, Italy

g_bellentani — 2017-03-05 22:32:41 UTC

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.

Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

2017-03-06 01:52:56 UTC

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

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.

2017-03-06 07:13:16 UTC

Francesca, Italy

2017-03-06 11:25:25 UTC

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.

Giacomo, Italy (PD)

2017-03-06 11:37:37 UTC

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

Riccardo, Italy

rccrmn — 2017-03-06 17:03:34 UTC

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.)

Antonina, Italy

antonina_pippo — 2017-03-06 18:16:33 UTC

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.

Giuliana, Italy

2017-03-06 18:57:23 UTC

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.

Aleksandar, Serbia

maturskiradpitajte — 2017-03-06 20:25:15 UTC

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.

Chantelle Bartolo Cremona - Malta

chantellecremona — 2017-03-06 20:28:14 UTC

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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Paola, Italy

2017-03-06 21:32:53 UTC

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...

CORINA, ROMANIA

2017-03-07 08:22:06 UTC

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.

Evangelia Moula, Greece

moulaevang — 2017-03-07 09:54:22 UTC

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.

Alexandra Figueiredo, Portugal

2017-03-07 10:00:30 UTC

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

Marianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

1canislupus22 — 2017-03-07 12:27:44 UTC

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

Seher ÇUĞ, TURKEY

2017-03-07 13:24:32 UTC

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.

Danica, Serbia

2017-03-07 13:38:56 UTC

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.

Antonella (Italy)

anto_gioitta — 2017-03-07 15:07:05 UTC

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.

Cristina (Italy)

2017-03-07 16:52:09 UTC

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.

Marina, Tuscany (Italy)

mafina2000 — 2017-03-07 20:20:42 UTC

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.

Germana, Portugal

germanaeiriz — 2017-03-07 21:15:28 UTC

"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#

Mario, Italy

2017-03-07 21:38:27 UTC

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!

opportunities

2017-03-07 22:20:35 UTC

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.

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

2017-03-07 22:43:32 UTC

Lotte, Denmark

tingsager68 — 2017-03-08 06:51:28 UTC

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.

Ivan, Philippines

2017-03-08 10:36:00 UTC

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.

Gordana B,

gocabud — 2017-03-08 17:49:00 UTC

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.

Gordana B,

gocabud — 2017-03-08 18:17:35 UTC

This is how our Christmas tree looked like.

Maria Amalia, Thessaloniki, Greece

2017-03-08 19:08:29 UTC

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)

to be connected with others

zanardialice — 2017-03-08 21:00:46 UTC

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.

Ali,Turkey

2017-03-08 21:22:17 UTC

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.

Milena Igjatova, Republic of Macedonia

mmiilleennaa — 2017-03-09 08:05:54 UTC

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.

Sophia Kouzouli, Greece

sophiakouz — 2017-03-09 14:13:42 UTC

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

Patrizia, Italy

corapatrizia — 2017-03-09 20:01:35 UTC

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

BrunoFerreira20

2017-03-10 16:37:27 UTC

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..."

Özlem Talip, Ankara/ Turkey

ozlemtalip — 2017-03-10 18:46:53 UTC

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.

Dubravka Crnic, Croatia

dubravka_crnic — 2017-03-11 15:57:34 UTC

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.

Maria Tiago, Portugal

mariatiago — 2017-03-11 21:50:46 UTC

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.

Kapoglou Chrysovalandou, Greece

valentinas — 2017-03-12 10:55:46 UTC

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.

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.

komodikiantigoni — 2017-03-12 15:12:31 UTC

Ankica, Croatia

2017-03-12 16:51:45 UTC

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.

Annarita, Italy

annarita_rungetti — 2017-03-12 17:13:17 UTC

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

Alessandro Marinelli, Italy

maralex100 — 2017-03-12 19:41:47 UTC

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

Clara Elizabeth Báez -Reggio Calabria - Italy

2017-03-12 20:32:41 UTC

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

Iro Koliakou Greece

2017-03-12 21:11:18 UTC

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.

Irma, Italy

2017-03-13 22:32:39 UTC

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

Livio Luppino

2017-03-14 02:42:39 UTC

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

Vanessa Ridolfi, Italy

vanessa_ridolfi — 2017-03-14 05:44:01 UTC

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.

Fausto Finocchiaro, Catania

2017-03-14 09:55:57 UTC

Stavroula, Cyprus

2017-03-14 11:03:21 UTC

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

Matina Kourtina, Greece

2017-03-14 16:11:36 UTC

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.

paola

2017-03-14 20:39:47 UTC

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

Joanne - Malta

joazam — 2017-03-15 12:40:55 UTC

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.

Elena, Greece

l_1_doug32_ed — 2017-03-15 16:04:46 UTC

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.

MariaAntonietta-Italy

marican — 2017-03-15 18:50:56 UTC

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

Maiia Seliatina, Ukraine

s_maya — 2017-03-15 23:28:32 UTC

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.

Carlos, Spain

2017-03-16 07:25:28 UTC

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.

Anna, Ital

annabattigelli2005 — 2017-03-16 17:00:58 UTC

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

Alessandra, Italy

alessandrapulinas3 — 2017-03-16 20:40:16 UTC

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.

Maria Nikolova, Bulgaria

maria_n_ss — 2017-03-17 09:01:32 UTC

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.

Concetta Veca, Italy

2017-03-17 16:57:31 UTC

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.

Paola Biondi, Italy

paola_biondi1 — 2017-03-17 17:35:03 UTC

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.

Aurora-Italy

aurorpagano — 2017-03-19 18:29:13 UTC

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.

Adina Marcu,Romania

adinamarcu9 — 2017-03-20 17:18:46 UTC

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

Kristijan Cincar,Serbia

2017-03-20 18:00:41 UTC

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....

Sal, Italy

2017-03-20 23:34:37 UTC

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.

Bianca B., Romania

bbyancka — 2017-03-21 19:33:23 UTC

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

Gisela Zamora, Mexico

ggzzaa123 — 2017-03-22 01:46:34 UTC

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

Kaire Hakk, Estonia

2017-03-23 07:50:03 UTC

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!

Anna C., Italy

annacav2008 — 2017-03-23 17:21:36 UTC

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.

Montserrat Padrón, Spain

2017-03-24 09:24:18 UTC

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.

Alcira MF, Germany

amulf — 2017-03-25 16:35:42 UTC

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.

Sérgio Leal, Portugal

sergioleal — 2017-03-25 19:42:47 UTC

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.

Atanasija,Croatia

2017-03-27 07:12:25 UTC

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

Ana Ventura, Spain

anavenmolina — 2017-03-27 13:50:51 UTC

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...

Sara, Italy

saradanesidocente — 2017-03-27 15:54:56 UTC

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

Olga Tsaruk, Ukraine

2017-03-27 20:16:43 UTC

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.

Gülhanım Dursun Turkey

2017-03-29 21:17:45 UTC

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

SANİYE AVAN

2017-03-30 07:21:47 UTC

TURKEY

I train my students as innovative

Mirela, Romania

2017-03-31 05:58:52 UTC

I teach students to work on projects in small groups.

Dov, ISRAEL

dov_kipperman — 2017-04-02 06:51:29 UTC

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

Alessandra-Italy

alessandrapulinas3 — 2017-04-02 18:20:46 UTC

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.

Antonino, Italy

2017-04-03 20:00:35 UTC

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.

Patrizia

patrizia_cattani — 2017-04-05 16:12:43 UTC

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.

2017-04-05 17:38:55 UTC

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

Luigina Astorino (Italy)

20febraio — 2017-04-07 08:07:33 UTC

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

Maria (italy)

m_saponaro — 2017-04-08 13:44:47 UTC

spotting-opportunities should be a habit for all subjects

Communication

karelvorech123 — 2017-04-10 10:43:32 UTC

i would say that communication is the base for everythink.

Teuta, Albania

2017-04-15 11:47:05 UTC

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