Young entrepreneurs

Could you start your own business at 10yrs and 13 yras of age?

Hear how these two young boys set up and run their own company, Donegal Pens.



Watch another interview they gave on This Morning on TV3

Visit their site Handmade Pens by Donegal Pens.

Swim A Mile plan

Here's our brainstorming session from class today so we can remember what we need to write our actions of the Action Plan.

Taking a photograph of the board helps when we are at home and writing up our reports.

Business plans

Entrepreneur develop Business Plans before they start their business.

Business Plan from Topics Education on Vimeo.

Starting a business

Where do people get money from to start a business?

Starting a Business from Topics Education on Vimeo.

Interactive lesson on communication and meetings

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Follow the interactive lesson from Skoool.ie below to learn all about the different forms of communication; verbal, written and visual.

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Interactive lesson on business opportunities

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Follow this interactive lesson on Skoool.ie about Identifying Opportunities and Market Research.
The lesson covers sources of ideas as well as generating and researching ideas.

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Interactive lesson on the entrepreneur

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Follow this interactive lesson on Skoool.ie. The lesson covers:

The role of the entrepreneur
The characteristics of the entrepreneur
The skills of the entrepreneur
The importance of enterprise in business and the community.

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Inviting a speaker in

We have been practicing exam questions in class. We brainstormed the answers to the following questions. Here is what we came up with.

 

You have invited a speaker to your LCVP class. Outline how you would evaluate this visit and state why you chose each one.

1. Class discussion

You can see how much was learned from the visit

Comments can be made straight away/elaborated on

Chosen as easy to organise/quick, no need to prepare for this activity

Students practice speaking out in public

All students can be included easily

2. Class questionnaire

Make out questions to see how much was learned

Chosen because replies are confidential

Inexpensive to operate

Easy to collate results

Good response rate will be obtained

Objective because all students get same questions

3. Ask Teacher/Speaker opinion

Very easy to do

No cost

Teacher will be a good judge

Good way to give feedback to students

4. Written report

Students can have individual reports

Easy to see what students learned

Use of ICT skills can be measured

5. Comparison with another visit

To see if the organisation has improved

To see if anything further was learned

To highlight differences between different visits made (location etc)

Teams

Describe what makes a person a good team worker?

1.       Willing to work with everyone on the team.

2.       Finding good qualities in everyone in the group and using them to accomplish the goal.

A good team member should:

1.       Never gossip and always represent yourself as a group not as (I) or (me).

2.       Ask questions for everyone’s input.

3.       If someone is struggling in the group jump in and help them out.

4.       Give encouragement and thanks.

5.       Never ridicule someone in front of others.

6.       Not talk about a member to another member.

7.       Pass out bulletins to everyone so no one feels left out.

A good team consist of:

1.       People who are communicative, co-operative, problem solvers and respectable individuals.

2.       People who are good listeners. This helps achieve a solution faster, and with less stress. You have to care about other people views are. If you want to work as a team you have to be able to listen and understand.