International Classrooms from IDEEC proyect.

This activity provides teachers and students to try out an impact driven entrepreneurial activity in your classroom and share the experience with fellow students in classrooms around Europe.

Context
How do young people experience that they can make a positive impact on their environment through entrepreneurial actions? This question is central in the project Impact-driven Entrepreneurship Education for Children (IDEEC). IDEEC is an Erasmus+ project, co-funded by the European Union.

Developing competencies for impact-driven entrepreneurship requires agency and activity from the learners. We see the international classrooms as an experiential, practical, local and active process. Therefore we can structure this process of learning by doing into a three-phase approach. In each of the phases, we have identified three main competencies that learners develop. We think they are most prominent in this particular phase, but of course, they are also relevant in other phases. 

Phase 1: Challenge Framing – what is the problem you want to solve?
Phase 2: Solutions Experimenting – what possible solutions do you explore?
Phase 3: Impact Making – how can you make a real difference to the problem?

Read more about the competencies in each phase and the didactic principles in IDEEC's Introduction to the Toolkit, here.

Overall aim of the international classroom events
The overall aim of the classroom is to give teachers and students an experience of one of the activities and to explore how they can make a difference in your local context. It is also an opportunity to explore the competency framework that underpins the project and to understand how you can support the students to develop competencies in each phase of the programme.

With this event we could connect online with other classrooms internationally, who are working on the same activity at the same time.

Who is it for?
Students:
The used activities from the toolkit that we will be using  in the international classroom is aimed at young people between the ages groups of 9 - 11 and 12-15 years.
Teachers:
If you are new to delivering  impact driven entrepreneurial educational session in the classroom or have lots of experience – you are welcome to come along and share in this experience.

Suggestion of programme:

• Meeting online: Welcome to the live session (10 mins)
• Into online breakout rooms – meet the other students and their teachers – each breakout room will have an IDEEC facilitator to outline the activity and answer any questions about delivering the session  - languages available in breakout rooms Dutch/Italian/Spanish/English/Gaelic ( 20 mins)
• Leave online session and undertake the activity with your class (IDEEC facilitator will remain in the room for ongoing support during the activity delivery)  (30 mins)
• Rejoin your breakout room and share your experience (20 mins)
• Rejoin the main room for feedback and next steps (10mins)
  
  

Classroom activities (attached):
- Community love balance (9-11)
- Problem ideation (12-15)