Entrepreneurship education encourages young people to achieve mental and economical independence as well as to develop awareness of the issues and challenging spirits to create a better society. Teaching materials for entrepreneurship education are developed based on the following concepts:
Give students their own roles and responsibilities in the activity-based learning environment
Heighten students' self-motivation and support them to gain the following abilities:
*creating ideas
*creativity
*originality
*intellectual curiosity and spirit of inquiry
*problem finding
*problem solving
*collecting information
*analyzing
*making decisions
*being independent when necessary
Take the following learning process; individual work¨group work¨present the results of the learning activities in the class
Focus on group work to encourage students to acquire the following skills that are better cultivated through group work, not through individual learning activities:
*working as a team
*taking responsibility
*positiveness
*taking initiative
*communicating
*presenting
*judgment
*leadership
*confidence and spirit of self-respect
*being persevere
*being flexible
*logically analyzing
*evaluating
*taking informed risks
*cooperating with others
*carrying out a plan
*being able to motivate others
*challenging spirit
*being an agent of change
Enable students to experience the process of finding and solving problems
Enable students to realize that there are more than one solutions
Enable students to recognize that they are responsible for their future -future is the result of one's choice and decision
Encourage acquiring comprehensive abilities. Enable learning activities across different subjects
Use local resources such as companies (provide local residents with opportunity to participate in education and children to understand about their local community)
Educators act as facilitators (guide students to learn and find answers) in the learning activities
Set clear aims and evaluation methods of the learning
Evaluated by people other than teachers (self-evaluation, group evaluation, evaluation of supporters from outside school)
