Learn to Earn: Teaching Entrepreneurship to Elementary and High School SUC Students

1. Learn to Earn: Teaching Entrepreneurship to Elementary and High School SUC Students

2. Proponent and Institution • Name: MA. CRESILDA M. CANING • Designation: • Agency and Address: Central Bicol State University of Agriculture, Pili, Camarines Sur • E-mail: tri_gel_ann@yahoo.com.au

3. Implementing Agencies • Lead: CBSUA • Collaborating Agencies: • CSPC • PSU • CNSC • SSC • DEBESMSCAT • CSC

4. Rationale • Entrepreneurship is the driving force bringing innovations to the marketplace and establishing a community of high-growth firms. • A creative entrepreneurial sector or community within an economy can contribute significantly to its prosperity • HOWEVER, IT HAS BEEN OBSERVED THAT AS A PEOPLE, WE ARE NOT SO ENTREPRENEURIAL

5. GoNegosyo advocates believe that entrepreneurship can be taught • Private schools in Manila are already injecting entrep subjects/activities in their curriculum

6. We realize that when we embrace creativity and innovation, our products or services can bring about business growth, productivity improvement, job and wealth creation, an enhanced image for the economy, and ultimately a better quality of life for all • Policy makers have recognized that creative entrepreneurship needs to be encouraged through appropriate policies that foster entrepreneurship, innovation, and technological development • This program is really policy determining in nature

7. Excess production of college grads • as of 2004, 478,000 graduates college but only 77,000 jobs created

8. Objectives • Assess how entrep concepts could be integrated in the elementary and high school curriculum • Determine how entrepreneurial the schools are by monitoring/evaluating the activities done to promote entrepreneurship among students. • Assess preparedness of school to offer entrep subjects • Determine the kind of support extended to promote entrepreneurship development. • Determine what needs to be done to develop a more entrepreneurial culture among the identified schools. • Identify best practices in private and government schools

9. Project phases: • Project 1: Towards developing a more entrepreneurial schools • Study 1: Integrating Entrep Concepts in Elementary and Secondary subjects • Study 2: Instructional Material Preparation • Study 3: Capacity Development • Project 2: • Study 1: Entrep Integration in relevant subjects • Study 2: Evaluating the SUC’s enabling environment for entrep development

10. Theoretical Framework • Creativity and Entrepreneurship • Dr. M.K. Kim of Soongsil University focused on the theory of creativity and how it interfaces with entrepreneurship. In particular, he stressed that creativity is a collective capability that the whole organization can embrace. There are steps that organizations need to take: they should develop skills and capabilities that make it unique both in the present and in the future. The uniqueness is collective in nature, founded on the culture of the organization, in particular the way it operates and communicates as a team, rather than the creative skills of a few elite employees. The creative capability of the organization is shaped by the way the entire staff works and feels about the organization.

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