Entrepreneurs and Enterprising People

Division IV: Gr. 10-12

Exploring Entrepreneurship: Are You a Potential Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurs play an important role in our economy and society. Youth should have the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and be able to assess their own interest in being an entrepreneur. To help understand entrepreneurship they can learn how entrepreneurs find opportunities, generate ideas, and assess their opportunities and ideas to find the best one they can. They can explore examples of successful entrepreneurs – and the key reasons for their successes – and also explore examples of failed ventures why they failed. They should see how entrepreneurial people can start social ventures or start and lead new ventures within governments, or within a corporation. If possible, they should have an opportunity to try their hand at entrepreneurship through creating a venture plan and possibly even launching a small entrepreneurial venture – business or otherwise. Having an opportunity to learn about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship significantly increases the chance of a young person considering their entrepreneurial interest and possibly choosing entrepreneurship as a career.

Please Note: Teaching Units provided are for support and consideration by teachers and are not prescriptive.

Learning Map and Supports for Instruction

The “Learning Map” identifies teaching opportunities in Alberta’s curriculum for each topic and you will find them as part of the Support Teaching Materials provided here. Teachers can, of course, integrate the target areas of financial knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviours anywhere they can find a fit. The Supports for Instruction provide videos, animations, and links to other resources to support teachers in their efforts to improve the financial literacy of their students.