Relevance of the Course

Lesson 1
Benefits to Senior High School Students

1. Classify Individual entrepreneurial interests.

2. Apply basic marketing acumen.
3. Determine legitimate sources of resources.
4. Analyze ownership structures.
5. Convert threats into opportunities.
6. Adaptation of concepts and strategies for idea
generation.
7. Evaluate feasibility of ideas.
8. Discovery of entrepreneurial innovators who
also have the competence and edge to start their
own businesses.
9. Consider ethical and legal business practices.
10. Write a micro business plan.
Usefulness of the Course to the Students
1. Develop skills in starting up a business.
2. Demonstrate skills in maintaining business in long term basis.
3. Enhances knowledge of business operations and expansion.
4. Finds next level of training or access other resources and services.
5. Demonstrates business management.
6. Uses components of a business plan.
7. Considers to become employer rather than employee.
8. Changes attitude toward entrepreneurship as a means of making a
living.
9. Changes in personal and career attitudes including:
a. Communication
b. Self-actualization
c. Ability to manage one’s own life
d. Self concept and awareness
e.Problem solving
f. Self-management/personality responsibility
g. Collaboration/networking
h. Motivation
i. Creativity
j. Teamwork
Importance of Entrepreneurship
Education
1. Entrepreneurship is very important to our economy as key driver.
It focuses in wealth and a high majority of jobs are created by small
businesses started by entrepreneurially minded individuals, many of
whom go on to create innovative businesses. People exposed to
entrepreneurship mostly express that they have more opportunity
to exercise more creative freedoms, higher self worth, and an
overall greater sense of control over their own individual lives.
2. Entrepreneurship education is an individual lifelong learning
process.
It started as early as elementary school and progressed through
all levels of education, including adult education. Teachers will
help in building appropriate objectives, review learning activities
and assess the target audience absorption through feedback.
Students can now be progressively performing more challenging
educational activities and develop the insight needed to discover
and develop opportunities and take advantage of these.
3. Entrepreneurship will energize school
management.
School in the area of entrepreneurship must be
accessible, affordable and accountable in
producing successful students. The teachers need
to have critical skills of entrepreneurship to tackle
and resolve issues of enrolment, retention and
student success. It is a big challenge that school is
facing of what entrepreneurs are doing to run the
course with great success.
4. Entrepreneurship will transform learners to be
innovators.
Learners must be equipped with the perseverance and
determination of an entrepreneurial mindset at the outset
of their careers. They must be more engaged and take
ownership of their own success. Students should be
involved in ways of entrepreneurial activities to discover
that learning is more fun and more meaningful than the
traditional ways of learning.
Reasons in Establishing an Entrepreneurial
Culture in Every School and Institution
1. Entrepreneurship Education benefits every student by
giving them an alternate career path at any time in their lives.
Students should know how businesses make money. They
should have the opportunity to make a decision about
entrepreneurship as a career path now or later in their lives.
The foundation for that decision should begin with the K-12
system.
2. Entrepreneurship Education also provides an idea for
teaching academic subjects making those studies as
requisites in the real world. Every career and technical
student with a skill to sell in the market place should
consider the difference between finding a job and making
their own job.
3. The consideration in terms of value in entrepreneurial
opportunities maintains the innovative and creative thinking skills
that exist in the very early grades. There are many age and grade
appropriate activities that introduce entrepreneurship to young
children. Middle school is when most students begin to think
about career choices of the students. Entrepreneurship should be a
part of that consideration. The pathways to entrepreneurial
success are all accomplished by innovative and creative thinking
of an individual.
4. Most of the students who transfer or migrate to other
communities frequently want to come back to some
points in their lives; but alas, they cannot find a good job
opportunity back home. Those same communities have
needs unmet by businesses in their respective areas.
Young people who are determined to be an entrepreneur
can turn those unmet needs into business opportunities
and stay in or return to their communities, generating
employment and enlarging the local tax to help the local
government.