Exploring Teaching ‘Methods’ and
their Value in Achieving Learning
and Teaching Outcomes
Katie Wray
Teaching Fellow in Enterprise
SAgE Faculty Office
What do entrepreneurship educators
care about?
How can we educate students to:
1. Start New Ventures
2. Create High Growth Firms
3. Solve a broad range of societal
problems entrepreneurially
4. Adopt an entrepreneurial mindset
Blenker, P et al. (2011)
Exploring Teaching ‘Methods’..
Blenker, P et al. (2011)
1. How-to-do-it (business plans)
2. Pairing entrepreneurship (teams/patents/IP
etc)
3. Finding motivations (financing etc)
4. Entrepreneurship as a method for all
• Teaching ‘through’ entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship as a ‘method’
Entrepreneurial
behaviours
Entrepreneurial
Attributes
Entrepreneurial
Skills
Opportunity seeking
Self confidence
Problem solving
Creative problem solving
Achievement orientation
Persuading
Grasping/organising opportunities Autonomy
Negotiating
Taking initiatives
‘Natural’ leadership
Strategic thinking
Managing interdependence
‘Fixer'
Articulating ideas
Ambition
Determination
Selling
Seeing things through
Getting things done
Rapid use of judgement
Hardworking
Proposing
Decision making under
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Taking calculated risks
Commitment
Holistic task management
Social networking
Action oriented
Social skills
Perseverance
Strong ego
Teaching week plan (SPG8015)
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Pre-School assignment
Day One: Defining the teaching
– Getting to know each other
– How has our thinking changed
– Testing the traits
– Identifying problems
Day Two: Entrepreneurial Lab
– Food for thought scenarios
– Application
– Testing the traits
Day Three: Creativity and Ideas
– Techniques
– Discussing problems
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– Developing solutions
– Presenting solutions
Day Four
– The role of entrepreneurship in the
economy and society
– Rise Up Apprentice-style challenge
Day Five: Entrepreneurship on the
inside
– The role of innovation in business
design; Prof Max Robinson (EiR)
– The business case
– Entrepreneurship legacy theory
(tying the knots); Prof Allan Gibb
..their Value in Achieving Teaching
and Learning Outcomes
Discussion Topic
• Is it because I teach Enterprise and
Entrepreneurship or do students ‘apply’
innovative thinking from my modules to
technical modules to gain a ‘professional’
outcome?
• Questions I ask:
– Are you a ‘professional X’ when you get a degree?
– Do students create a University journey?
– Could these methods achieve your outcomes to
any extent?