Challenge

Educating NZ has engaged with a second cluster of schools in Wellington to continue to develop programmes that provide opportunities for students to focus on what it means to be ‘enterprising’.

Approach

Building on the findings from our first cluster, Educating NZ is working alongside teachers and students to create innovative and authentic opportunities for students to engage with their communities and local businesses in ways that help them develop the enterprising attributes.

Results

The schools, teachers and students involved in the projects are all experiencing increased engagement and enjoying the challenges and benefits that come from creating real world authentic projects that build the skills students will need to be successful in the 21st century. The video provided here shows the sorts of projects and the benefits the teachers and students have experienced.

Challenge

Educating NZ has engaged with clusters of schools in Wellington to help develop programmes that provide opportunities for students to focus on what it means to be ’enterprising.

Approach

Lyall Bay’s approach was to develop a sense of community in their school.  This was achieved by setting up Maranui FM radio station.

Results

Students from Lyall Bay school explain how they setup Maranui FM, their school radio station.  They discuss their roles and how they promote the radio station.

Challenge

Educating NZ has engaged with clusters of schools in Wellington to help develop programmes that provide opportunities for students to focus on what it means to be ’enterprising’.

Approach

Worser Bay’s approach to developing enterprise attributes in their school involved implementation at a strategic level and teachers using a cross curricular integrated approach.

Results

In this clip Senior teacher and Enterprise Project lead teacher, Kath Delport, from Worser Bay school outlines the benefits of embedding enterprise into the school curriculum.  Students taking ownership of their learning, setting goals and identifying opportunities.  She discusses their next steps of incorporating this into their student portfolios.

Challenge

Educating NZ has engaged with clusters of schools in Wellington to help develop programmes that provide opportunities for students to focus on what it means to be ’enterprising’.

Approach

Worser Bay’s approach to developing enterprise attributes in their school involved implementation at a strategic level and teachers using a cross curricular integrated approach.

Results

In this clip Senior teacher and Enterprise Project lead teacher, Kath Delport, from Worser Bay school discusses the challenges of up-skilling staff and motivating them to make changes to their practice through modeling and providing resources.  She identifies the links between enterprising attributes and the key competencies.

Challenge

Educating NZ has engaged with clusters of schools in Wellington to help develop programmes that provide opportunities for students to focus on what it means to be ’enterprising’.

Approach

Worser Bay’s approach to developing enterprise attributes in their school involved implementation at a strategic level and teachers using cross curricular integrated approach.

Results

Beginning with explicit teaching about enterprise and enterprising attributes was the approach taken with students.  Senior teacher and Enterprise Project lead teacher, Kath Delport talks about the process of identifying enterprising attributes, exploring what these look like and how they are incorporated into learning.  She shares examples of specific activities.

Challenge

Educating NZ has engaged with clusters of schools in Wellington to help develop programmes that provide opportunities for students to focus on what it means to be ’enterprising’.

Approach

Worser Bay’s approach to developing enterprise attributes in their school involved implementation at a strategic level and teachers using a cross curricular integrated approach.

Results

Senior teacher and Enterprise Project lead teacher, Kath Delport from Worser Bay school talks about developing enterprise within the school, trialing their cross curricular approach and important lessons learned along the way.

Challenge

Educating NZ has engaged with clusters of schools in Wellington to help develop programmes that provide opportunities for students to focus on what it means to be ’enterprising’.

Approach

Worser Bay Principal, Jude Pentecost, talks about embedding enterprise into the school curriculum. 

Results

Jude outlines the process for introducing enterprise to staff, setting expectations, embedding enterprise into their strategic planning and engaging their school and local community.

Challenge

Enterprise is one of the focus themes of the new national curriculum. To help all young people develop the competencies they need to be successful in the 21st century, teachers and schools will have to consider new and effective ways to promote enterprising attributes in their students.

This project helps schools explore ways that students can develop their knowledge through learning situations that connect the school and local enterprises. The project supports schools to work together with these networks to provide an authentic local context for students to develop enterprising attributes.

Approach

Educating NZ have engaged with a cluster of schools in the Wellington region and a range of business and community organisations to develop programmes that provide opportunities for students to focus on what it means to be ’enterprising’.

We have adopted an action-research model that helps teachers engage in structured reflection and gathers evidence of the kinds of school and classroom practices that promote enterprise education. So far we have helped schools develop projects that have involved establishing a school radio station, setting up a series of rain water tanks for water conservation and water quality testing projects, fundraising activities, and building a community garden.

Results

These projects give students a chance to pursue challenges and solve problems in real situations while working with enterprises in their local communities.