Istituto Tecnico Commerciale e per Geometri E. Fermi

Country

Italy

Vision or plan for entrepreneurship education

The schools promote entrepreneurial laboratory till 2004 and entrepreneurs is included in the curriculum of the schools. With the entrepreneurial laboratory the school want to involve basic knowledge to labour market and personal skills as entrepreneurship, rick management, responsibility, team working and orientation to the results. All the students are included.
During the first cycle (1 and 2 years) students participate to visit in the companies and meeting with local entrepreneurs. Some classes follow the "My company in a ebook" project with a learning by doing experience.
During the second cycle (3,4 and 5 years) students participate to the "Alternanza scuola-lavoro" and the Company program (called Impresa in azione in Italy).
Students of the 4^ year have a period of 3 weeks of internship in a companies or public entities.
School offers to the students the possibility to participate to external initiatives as for example the Creactivity event promoted by Museo Piaggio

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Resources to encourage and support entrepreneurship education

Coordination of the entrepreneurial projects is shared by 2 teachers selected every yeard by the Director of the school.

Focus on student centred learning, integration in different subjects

School signed formal agreements with pubblic and private entites engaged in the entrepreneurial projects. Often are private and public entites to ask to the schools project oriented to the entrepreanurial approach. Sometimes the school search directly the partners suit its own purposes. For example in the Company program with the business volunteers research or in the Alternanza scuola lavoro for the research of the companies hosted of the students internship and in the My company in a ebook to find the companies for the interviewer.
Parents are year after year more and more involved in the projects. Theachers solicit students to share their scholastic experiences with parents and to ask thier collaboration. Parents respond positively to the demands of their children. 

Evaluation of entrepreneurship education and learning and by whom

The evaluation includes a mix of tools: evaluation grids, reports, public events. The evaluation of the disciplinary expertise is evaluated by the teache, the soft skills are evaluated by the class council under scrutiny. Students are encouraged to produce a self-assessment throghout a specif questionnaire.