Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Schools

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)
SEEN practioners workshop 21 September
2006 Yarnfield Conference Centre
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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• Aims when I leave I will know
• the current context for enterprise education
• how I can apply an enterprising approach to
  planning
• what SEEN is for and how it will operate
• what the TLA is and how it can help me
• the questions leadership group should be able to
  answer

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• Starter and ice breaker
• take a character card from the envelope on your
  table
• another person with a character from the same
  cartoon or film
• tell each other about something your school has
  done over the last year that is connected with
  enterprise

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• Enterprise
• a readiness to embark on bold new ventures
• taking risks to achieve success

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• Current context
• enterprise education in UK has a long and
  chequered history
• TVEI, local level partnerships, EBLOs, TECs etc
• provision was inconsistent and not backed up by
  statutory entitlement except for the EIU cross
  curricular element of the original National
  Curriculum

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• What does the Treasury say?
• rates of entrepreneurial activity in the UK
  remain moderate by international standards
• an environment that encourages enterprise and
  supports people who take opportunities and risks
  is a crucial ingredient of productivity
  improvement

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• So they want to.
• improve support for small and new business
• promote a step change in the UKs enterprise
  culture
• pretend the history of enterprise education
  started in 1997 with Gordon Brown as this started
  as a Treasury initiative, not a DfES one

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• Key publications
• A review of enterprise and the economy in
  education (Davis Review Feb 2002)
• Work related learning for all at key stage 4
  (QCA 2003)
• Creating an enterprise culture (HM Treasury -
  Jan 2004)
• Learning to be enterprising (Ofsted Aug 2004)
• Developing enterprising young people (Ofsted
  November 2005)

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• Davies review
• findings shaped the current focus of WRL and
  enterprise education
• was concerned with the employability of young
  people
• identified and defined 3 key components of
  employability (enterprise capability, financial
  capability, economic and business understanding)
• asked Ofsted to pose a new question to schools
  How well does the school prepare young people
  for employability and work (including their
  enterprise capability)?

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)
Enterprise Education Outcomes Enterprise
Education supports the development of the
knowledge and understanding, skills and
attributes that young people require to thrive in
their future working lives. Enterprise Education
is more concerned with skills than with
knowledge. Work related learning is directly
connected with employability. Enterprise
education can be seen as the skills that support
employability within the framework of WRL or as a
stand alone area of learning in its own right.
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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• Moving the agenda forward
• Enterprise advisors
• Resources and enterprise pathfinders
• Business and Enterprise specialist status
• Enterprise in all schools?

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• SEEN
• Local response Area 47
• Single action plan
• Builds on existing good practice and networks
• Enterprising schools not just schools that
  do enterprise

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• Autumn term
• Leaders workshop
• Practitioners workshop
• Network schools meeting
• Consultancy work starts in schools
• Planning for cluster workshops
• First round of evaluation work undertaken

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• Spring term
• Cluster workshops
• Network schools meeting
• Consultancy work continues in schools
• Website material in place

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• Summer term
• Outreach work in cluster schools
• Network schools meeting
• Final round of evaluation
• Report on key issues for sustaining SEEN after
  funding stops

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• SSAT Learning Academy
• GTCE Teacher Learning Academy partnership
• Mechanism for staff to gain professional
  recognition for work they undertake in connection
  with SEEN and enterprise development
• Four stage model accessible by all staff

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)

• SEF and Ofsted issues
• Key questions
• Have we got agreed definitions of key concepts
  for enterprise?
• Are they written down?
• Do we have written aims and objectives for
  enterprise education?
• Is enterprise in the school development plan?
• How is the SMT involved?
• Who is nominated to lead enterprise developments
  and are other enterprise champions nominated to
  help?
• How much time is granted for preparation?
• Have we got a cash resource allocated
  specifically to enterprise?
• How is enterprise communicated throughout the
  school?

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Staffordshire and Stoke on TrentSchools
Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)
Why do anything different? In times of change it
is the learners who inherit the earth while the
learned are beautifully equipped to deal with a
world that no longer exists. The illiterate of
the 21st century will not be those who cannot
read and write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler He also
wrote a book called Future Shock the central
theme of which is about the impact on society of
too much change in too short a period of time.
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Enterprise EducationNetwork (SEEN)
www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk/seen www.staffpart.org.u
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