Planning and reflecting

You may want to consider and reflect on the following associated practices when planning or evaluating your enterprising teaching, learning and assessment activities:

Enterprising teaching and learning

• Do I encourage my pupils to develop a 'can do, will do', 'be all you can be' attitude?
• Do I help my pupils to reflect on their learning and make relevant connections with other subject areas and the world of work (with the help of employers, wherever possible)?
• Do my pupils use experiences in enterprise to reflect on other learning and skills development
• Do my pupils recognise the benefits of working independently, being self-motivated and accepting setbacks as learning experience?
• Does my classroom practice enable my pupils to be creative, flexible and resourceful in managing change?
• Do I empower my pupils to take imaginative and informed approaches to problem solving, involving calculated risks?
• Do I offer my pupils the opportunity to take the initiative and lead when the opportunity arises?
• Do I support my pupils in taking responsibility for and accepting the consequences of their actions?

Work-based vocational learning

• Do I aim to develop in my pupils an understanding and appreciation of the world of work, the value of different occupations including entrepreneurship, and their contributions to the economy and society?
• Do I seek to develop in my pupils a knowledge and understanding of personal finance, wealth creation and wealth distribution both nationally and globally?
• Do I enable my pupils to reflect on the roles, rights and responsibilities of individuals as employees, managers, employers, entrepreneurs, investors, customers and global citizens?
• Do I endeavour to raise awareness in my pupils of recognising the positive and negative contributions of technology and business in society?

Entrepreneurial learning

• Do I actively encourage my pupils to engage in school and community life in a positive manner to the benefit of the school and the wider community?
• Through my classroom teaching, do I engage my pupils in challenging, hands-on, entrepreneurial projects which will allow them to generate and act on original ideas?
• Do my classroom practices seek to develop an understanding of the key business functions and roles?
• Do my classroom practices seek to develop the skills of planning, influencing, negotiating, decision making, risk management and teamwork?

Careers education

• Do I endeavour to raise my pupils' awareness of the opportunities at transition stages throughout life?
• Do I encourage my pupils to be ambitious and make connections between past, present and future experiences?
• Do I enable my pupils to be self-aware and to reflect on their particular strengths, developmental needs, interests and aspirations?
• Do I offer my pupils the experience of engaging with a wide range of people in society at a local, national and global level?