Virginia Tech Center for Economic Education
Oct 24, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration Deadline: October 24, 2024
Grade Level: High School, Middle School, Post-high School
Potential Recertification Credits: 1
Entrepreneurship is an engaging real-world lens through which to teach economics and personal finance. Nearly 50% of Gen-Z’ers say they are interested in starting their own businesses. More broadly, entrepreneurial skills are modernized workforce readiness skills that employers say they want new hires to have in the Innovation & Gig Economy. This webinar focuses on innovative and engaging ways to easily empower students in secondary subjects—including core academics, gifted, CTE, economics, and personal finance—with the entrepreneurship concepts, skills, and mindsets needed for today’s workforce without having to teach a traditional entrepreneurship class. Examples of the free, innovative instructional resources and strategies include self-study materials for an entrepreneurship independent study; community and university partnerships that offer counseling, resources, webinars, mentors, and guest speakers; field trips to incubators and maker-spaces for budding student-entrepreneurs; co-curricular book clubs; recommended curriculum framework; educational activities that qualify for work-based learning credits in entrepreneurship; social and environmental entrepreneurship as service learning projects; easy Shark Tank and innovation challenges; new entrepreneurship certification credentials for high school students; professional development for teachers; and more! Webinar participants will also receive free entrepreneurship lessons and simulations.
Fee: NO CHARGE
Additional Information:
The Zoom link to join the webinar will be emailed to registered participants a few days before the webinar starts.
Instructor: Dr. Cheryl Ayers
Contact Person:
Dr. Cheryl Ayers
Center for Economic Education
Virginia Tech
cheryl42@vt.edu
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