Group Experience of Individual Task

Reflection

'Developing Leadership in Entrepreneurship Education'

4 groups

• Each with a co-ordinator• Teams: elevator ‘expert’ per team

Task:• Everyone must prepare 2 min pitch

“I am a Master of Enterprise Educator”

7pm Met Hotel

(arrive 6.45pm)

The ‘Guinness® Pitch & Pour’

Activity: Imagine you are stood at the bar next to a potential investor/customer and you’ve both just ordered up a couple of pints of the dark stuff……

…you now have 1minute and 59 seconds to tell them all about your business idea and why they should seriously consider investing in you.

What are you going to say?

Effective Communication

Audience Message Format Method Resources Skills and Abilities= Defines your approach and style

Source: Robert Pagliarini, SeekingCapital.com

6 questions to answer

1. What is your product or service?2. Who is your market? 3. What is your revenue model? 4. Who is behind the company? 5. Who is your competition? 6. What is your competitive advantage?

4: Pitching: Reflection

Can I use it? – is what I do better? How does it ‘feel’? Could I do this? (with my students; my

classroom etc)

What support do they need? What support do I need? How do I assess this? – do I need to? Why would I use this?

'Developing Leadership in Entrepreneurship Education'

How did it feel?

Towards Scaffolding

Vygotsky (1978)

ZPD Zone of proximal development• the distance between the actual

developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peers

“Scaffolding” Jerome Bruner

Class room Constraints

• Time; Physical Environment;

• Student Voice (& expectations)

• Learning Styles: – VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/write,

and Kinaesthetic sensory modalities that are used for learning information (Fleming & Mills 1992)