Meet the NSW entrepreneurial educators
Event description
As 2020 has already shown, the next generation will face unprecedented challenges in nature and scale in the coming century. To help your students tackle these challenges and thrive in an uncertain future, join us on Wednesday 21 October to get actionable tips on developing innovation and entrepreneurial mindsets in the classroom.
Get actionable tips on developing innovation and entrepreneurial mindsets in high school students. Hear from four talented teachers who recently completed the Entrepreneurial Educators Program on their key learnings and how they are applying these in their schools.
You’ll walk away with practical tips around how to get started or build on existing initiatives to cultivate innovation in your school and in the classroom.
The panel session will be moderated by Emily Chang (Director, Entrepreneurship) from Sydney School of Entrepreneurship (SSE) and joined by four of the talented teachers who recently completed the Entrepreneurial Educators Program to share their experiences and insights. This will be followed by a Q+A and optional virtual networking.
This is an online webinar - you will receive the Zoom details after registration with a reminder sent before commencement.
About the Entrepreneurial Educators Program
The Entrepreneurial Educators Program gives teachers across NSW the unique opportunity to develop skills in creativity, problem-solving, entrepreneurship and innovation. Through the program, teachers learn how to identify a problem, create new ideas, develop a solution and tell their story.
With the support of our expert facilitation team, teachers work together on an innovation project. They leave the program with entrepreneurial tools, methods and thinking that they can apply in the classroom and use to support similar learnings with their students.
Speakers
Jaye Dunn
Jaye Dunn currently teaches at Epping Boys High School where she holds the roles of Enrichment Coordinator and Engagement Team Leader. Jaye has been a passionate Social Science teacher for more than 15 years, and has been a driving force in the implementation of a Project Based Learning Elective, titled Innovative Solutions, and other successful learning programs.
Lauren Goritsas
Lauren Goritsas is a passionate secondary educator, specialising in Technological & Applied Studies and Visual Arts, based in the Inner West suburbs of Sydney. An aspiring entrepreneur, Lauren completed a Diploma in Innovation Management at UNSW to learn more about the structure of starting a business and entrepreneurship. She and a colleague recently started a girls STEAM club to improve the engagement and perceived self-efficacy of young women in this field.
Rachel Noonan
Rachel Noonan is a Social Science Head Teacher and has been a passionate Business, Commerce and Geography educator for the past 17 years. She works in a high performing comprehensive high school in the Hunter, leading initiatives in both entrepreneurial learning and sustainability and was the 2020 recipient of the First State Super Premier's Teaching Scholarship for Financial Literacy and Capability.
Brendan Roberts
Brendan is Head Teacher HSIE at Yass High School with 23 years of experience teaching business at secondary schools in urban and rural NSW. Brendan has constantly sought new ways of not only building commercial knowledge and skills in young people, but challenging the nature of what business education could be. His passion for project based learning, supported by his own entrepreneurial journey outside of education as a partner in two businesses, has allowed him to build a strong program that inspires his high school students in rural NSW to embark on their own entrepreneurial journeys.
About Sydney School of Entrepreneurship
Sydney School of Entrepreneurship (SSE) is a leading provider of entrepreneurial education, services and support across New South Wales, driving innovation and entrepreneurship in the state and around the world.
Since opening our doors in 2017, we have helped more than 15,000 participants develop the skills, mindset and networks they need to succeed in a rapidly-changing world.
We look forward to welcoming you to our growing community of truly interdisciplinary, diverse and globally-connected innovators. Together, we are committed to life-long learning, creating high-growth businesses and supporting each other to tackle the future of work.
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Find out more at sse.edu.au.
This event is part of the 2020 Spark Festival - Australia's Innovation Festival. For more information or to book other "Find My Spark" workshops go to https://sparkfestival.co/program/find-my-spark/.