enterprising education in kiviõli 1

Enterprising education in Kiviõli 1. Secondary School

Beginning 2006

• Thats impossible, we cant do that!

• Maybe it´s a good idea, but is that worth all that time and effort?

• It´s a really good idea!

First project

• Selection of professions

Students

• Made portfolio about parents professions, invited them in class

• Made crosswords, games about that material, drawings

• Study visits in workplaces

My father is sales manager

Children planned all...

Calculated what they needBought products and parents

helped with some bakingDecorated room and tabelsCalculated pricesDealt with moneyMade coffee and tea etc

How we started?

• Finding companions,• Making teams,• Involving managemant,• Setting goals (why?,what?,how?),• Making plans,• Acting ,• Analyzing ,• Sharing good ideas with colleagues.

From old new ..

Fresh and new

• Before • After

What students learned?

• Even if you don´t have a big budget, you can give old furniture a new look

• Lots of students who are not so good on the academic level proved that they are good workers

• Real life – working with teachers, school staff, classmates

• Responsibility

Half of me ... Class picture

• Creativity• Math • Art • Organizing

• Project day at end of schoolperiod

Bookshop game

• How to do? Visiting bookshop in Rakvere

• Collecting books• Sorting and finding prices• Inviting writers (Piret

Päär)• Making money (KIK)• Setting up bookshop and

selling books

12.05.2010 in Jõhvi Award Gala

What we achieved?• We have leading team that help teachers –

headmaster, headteacher, coordinator, activity leader.

• Meetings of teachers.• Good teachers, who spark colleagues.• Enterprising is set in in school curricula.• Activity plan for year.• Help on different levels (including financal..) to help

teachers make lessons more interesting, to organize study visits etc.

• On basic shool level we have in curricula economy study and career study.

Traditional activities in school• 1. September• St. Martin’s day• Freshmen´s week• Teacher’s day• Christmas parties• Mother’s day • Father’s day• The last school bell• Sport days• Project days

Mothers day concert

Autumn exhibition

Cartoons

Our students• Active and innovative, spirited and enterprising• Present their ideas and solutions, ready to responsibility.• Knowl how to plan different events, courrage to try the new

and finish the planned.• More opened with co-working with adults, ready to find

partners.• Caring and ready for teamwork.• Could find connections between real life and study• They know that sometimes plans don´t realize and they aren´t

afraid to fail.• Learning is fun and school life is not boring.• All students could be successful.

New projects

Funny break at school

Our students love studying in Kiviõli First Secondary School