Using Your Entrepreneurial Skills to Build Your Career and a Thriving Economy Lesson Plan

Concept:

Becoming your own boss; taking responsibility for making your career dreams a reality

Student learning associated with this concept can support achievement of provincial learning outcomes:

NB 1, 2, 4, 6
NL 4, 8, 14, 15
NS 2, 4, 5, 9, 10
PEI 2, 3, 5

Rationale:

Entrepreneurs can be considered the backbone of the economy in Atlantic Canada. The commitment to launching a business requires significant ongoing effort however for entrepreneurs the results are gratifying and motivating. Not everyone is meant to be an entrepreneur but entrepreneurship is a strong and viable career opportunity for those who have a vision and are willing to take the risks. This lesson will help students evaluate their entrepreneurial potential. Through their learning, students will also come to understand that many of the attributes of an entrepreneur, often referred to as having an entrepreneurial mindset, are valuable to becoming a creative and valued employee in companies where they may see themselves working.

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This lesson presents an opportunity for teachers to collaborate in supporting student learning about the role of self-assessments in career planning. In addition to Career Education courses, teachers can consider how students are able to meet cross curricular learning outcomes in other courses such as English/French Language Arts, Multimedia, Social Studies, Fine Arts etc. A cross curricular focus also supports a unified approach in addressing the “why” of what students are learning. Students can develop an awareness of how and why what they are learning connects to them, their community and their future.