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Principle no.

9: Effective entrepreneurship education ensures whole school involvement in a manner that appreciates and enhances the role that the provincial Department of Education (DoE), DoE district offices, the School Governing Body (for government schools), the principal, school management, administrative staff and teaching staff has to play.
11 PRINCIPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE IN THE PROVISION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION (EE) AT SCHOOL LEVEL: 1. Clear definition of entrepreneurship includes: thinking, feeling and doing in practice - amongst all at secondary school. 2. School Entrepreneurship Education use quality classroom content across range of subjects, fit within curriculum statement. 3. Teachers involved follow innovative facilitation approaches to teaching. 4. Continuous teacher development takes place in field of EE." 5. "in-the-classroom entrepreneurship education theory is linked to the practicals there-off within extra-mural activities." 6. A culture of entrepreneurship created at school through engagement of all stakeholders - focus upon learner development. 7. Agreed aims & objectives by school's EE: measure achievement, direct efforts & new strategies. 8. Learner initiated & lead EE projects secure support from the school enhancing self-motivation. 9. Co-ownership of EE in the school illustrated - joint action involve staff, management, Department. 10.Learners of the school receive exposure to career options open to entrepreneurs" 11.School use effective outreach & networking strategies - integral to provision of EE.

How does EWET go about it?


Collaboration with the Department of Basic Education (DBE) Element ix: (a.) School premises represent the sites for YES club operations since 1994. EWET follows a bottom-up approach in reaching learners through trained volunteering teachers. Collaboration from teachers and school management is excellent. Such cooperation as evolved from 17 years back as it advanced from local schools to district offices, to the provinces to national within the Directorate Rural Education. This collaboration is build upon mutual respect and trust between DBE and EWET as it evolved over the years. (b.) Stronger engagement from the District Offices saw the School Management Developer (SMGB) overseeing progress with EE implementation as a school governance matter that gave teachers freedom to engage within EE while also reporting. The Chief Education Specialists (CES) and Deputy Chief Education Specialists (DCES) gave their endorsement and support. The Senior Education Specialists (SES) co-facilitated some teacher training workshops with EWET. Of

critical importance is the Education Specialist (ES) from the District as well as the Heads of Departments (HOD) at the schools for actual delivery of Entrepreneurship Education Syllabi materials in the classrooms as well as its linkage with the practical done within the YES clubs. The context of these developments is the ability of EE to speak effectively to the National Curriculum Statements (NCS). The 11 principles on the basis of which all schools compete to be the: (c.) Provincial; and (d.) National winning Entrepreneurship Education (EE) School as captured within the annual EE Simama Ranta competition. The principles speak to the principles on the basis of which the Department of Basic Education (DBE) measures individual school effectiveness in terms of: developmental appraisal; performance measurement; and whole school evaluation. These developments bodes well for the mainstreaming of entrepreneurship education (EE) within the Department of Basic Education (DBE) such that the possibility for each and every secondary student in South Africa to be exposed and engaged within Entrepreneurship Education, may just become viable. EWET is tirelessly working with DBE and with a broad range of partners to realize this vision. The learners gain credits within the context of General Education and Training (GET) as the work they do integrate with the National Curriculum Statement of the specific subject they are working on. Compiled by: EWET Education With Enterprise Trust, not-for-profit: PO Box 150, Harrismith, Free State Province, South Africa your partner in youth entrepreneurship development.

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