About REAL
What is REAL?
Rural Entrepreneurship thru Action Learning
- A nationally based K-12 entrepreneurship curriculum with 20 year history in 43 states, training over 250 Vermont teachers
- Develops Knowledge, skills, and abilities in three recognized 21st century disciplines
- Entrepreneurship
- Personal finance
- Economics
What's different?
Experiential Learning
- Students actively participate in exercises, reflect, and apply it to real life
- Project Based Learning is accomplished by "doing" while having fun
- Students learn to plan, set goals, and manage their time
- Students address ethical issues as they build their plans and model ethical behavior in their teams
- Students connect with communities and work with people outside the classroom
- Enhanced opportunities for service learning & social responsibility
Why Entrepreneurship Education?
Transformation & 21st Century Skills
- Financial literacy
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Engage students
- Facilitated Learning
- Flexible learning environment
Next Generation & Workforce Readiness
- Feeds pipeline of future entrepreneurs
- Helps keep youth in Vermont
- Increases student interaction with local community
- Increases readiness for successful employment
- Motivates and prepares students for post secondary study
Curricula
High School and K-8
Aligned with Vermont and National Standards
- Math
- Economics
- English Language Arts
- Science
- Entrepreneurship Education
Helps achieve Transformation of Education goals
- Provides business / entrepreneurial skills
- Financial literacy
- Engaged and excited students
- Students practice 21st Century Skills
- Apply 21st Century skills to real life
- Enhances drop- out prevention
- Students have fun
- Potential Work Readiness Credential & post secondary prep
Delivered by currently licensed teachers who have completed a REAL Institute
- High School is a 38 hr institute which carries 3 college credits
- K-8 is a 32 hr institute which carries 2 credits
- Institutes can be delivered regionally