An entrepreneurial learning path from the first to the third year.
We developed our student programme into three connected school years and adapted it to Waldorf teaching.
It began with an invitation to the judging panel.
Our collaboration began by joining the judging panel for student projects. After a teacher left, an opportunity arose to prepare the economics block in our own way. This experience gradually led to a proposed three-year entrepreneurial learning path.
In developing the design, we also considered room for students to carry out their projects and how experiences build on one another throughout their studies.
The starting point
There was too little room to carry out the project.
The original fourth-year business project led students to their own business plan and contact with people outside school. But there was little time left to put it into practice. Other school activities and final exam preparation followed.
In designing the change, we considered when to introduce entrepreneurship and how to develop the experience gradually, giving students room to apply what they learned.
Three connected stages
Year 1
Prepare and carry out a sale
Students work with a product, customer and price, divide team roles and prepare a sales event. This includes recording income and expenses, responsibility to the customer and shared reflection.
Year 2
Understand a real business
The proposed second stage explores a particular business through interviews, research and a visit. Students are to examine its operations, relationships between people and impact on society, then present their findings in a study.
Year 3
Create your own business project
The third stage covers a business project in full: the problem and solution, customers, offer, marketing, economics and implementation plan. It connects the parts into a coherent business proposal.