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It’s My Future is an e-learning module created as an add-on to the JA It’s My Business and linked with its curriculum (age 13-15) but can be used in separate. The module focuses on entrepreneurs as role models, inspiring a new generation.

This e-learning:
  • Offers flexible modular blended learning curricula (to be used in and out of school, both individually and/or in groups)
  • Provides advanced learning-by-doing activities
  • Introduces local role models via online tools
  • Offers flexibility based on the various national curricula

It’s My Future provides practical information about preparing for the working world. Students learn about career clusters, high-growth jobs, career planning, and creating a personal brand. And, through a scavenger hunt, they are introduced to the basic aspects of job hunting.

Job Shadow prepares students to be entrepreneurial thinkers in their approach to work. In-class sessions prepare students for a visit to a professional work environment, where they will face a series of challenges administered by their workplace hosts. Students learn how to research career opportunities and the skills needed to land and keep their dream job.

Global Marketplace takes students on a spin around the world. Students learn the products they use every day, like their backpacks and sneakers, might use raw material from one country, be assembled in another, and sold from Peking to Chicago. The program helps students understand how goods flow through various economies and the effect globalization has on their lives.

world.jpgPupils learn that countries of the world rely on each other for their resource needs and wants. Through a trading game, enterprise challenge and discussions, pupils aim to simulate and understand the global challenges faced by nations. Through hands-on activities each week students explore STEM skills and the role they play in the future of the business world. Exploring how technology and communications are vital growth areas in the global marketplace, students examine entrepreneurship and develop their own business ideas.

Pupils are introduced to different regions and types of geography such as cities, towns, rural areas, seaside, landlocked areas, etc. In this in-depth and action packed programme, students role-play business ownership, produce a product using different methods of production, look at the costs associated with running a business, create product advertisements, and take charge of their own businesses to make a profit! It demonstrates why different types of business may establish in different regions and how government has a role as decision maker, tax collector, arbitrator and provider of services.

JA Our City introduces students to the basics of financial literacy, the characteristics of cities, and how people and businesses in cities manage their money.

Students will explore zoning found within a city; the importance of money to a city, paying taxes, and how people use different methods to pay for goods and services. They also will explore how financial institutions, entrepreneurs, and news media contribute to the financial well-being of a city.

Padlet is like an online 'wall' or 'board' which allows students to carry out tasks for lessons and/or create their own individual ideas. It can be especially useful when doing entrepreneurial group work where students are collaborating and sharing their ideas as the board can be saved. A description of Padlet's many uses and benefits, based on the experiences of an English secondary school - Padlet can be used anywhere for anything!

A German educational programme focusing on the development of enterpreneurship skills in young people with a view to encouraging them to consider establishing and running their own businesses. It is coordinated throughout the country by the JUNIOR Central Office team who provide continuous support for participants as they run their companies. JUNIOR is open to students from year 9 upwards at all secondary and vocational schools.

The Intel® Learn Program has brought the future within reach for more than a million young people in communities around the world where there is limited access to technology in homes and schools. Through participation in this informal education programme, designed to take place after school, students learn the skills necessary to work and compete in the increasingly knowledge-based economy of the 21st Century.

More than Money is a Junior Achievement programme consisting of 6 sessions for students from grade 3 to 5. Developed in partnership with HSBC, it covers earning, spending, sharing and saving money. It also explains about businesses that students can start or jobs they can perform in order to earn money.

A 'production line' simulation designed to develop students' efficiency and raise awareness of quality control.

A regional Enterprise Challenge competition designed for primary school pupils and students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) which includes presenting ideas at a Dragon's Den event.

A simple 'stage-gate' process comprising four steps - 'Feel-Imagine-Do-Share' - which can add value to enterpreneurial learning activities and is promoted by Design for Change (DFC), a worldwide initiative aimed at giving children the opportunity to express and act on their ideas for a better world.

A 'stage-gate' model of entrepreneurship education developed by Dr Anne Kirketerp, External Associate Professor at Aarhus University, in 2011.

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