New Zealand : Idea Challenge

We know that a rich and varied environment supports children’s learning and development. It gives them the confidence to explore and learn in secure and safe, yet challenging, indoor and outdoor spaces.

When learning becomes fun the teachers find it less challenging for trying to keep the child engaged in the activity at hand. The job of the educator working with a play-based curriculum is to facilitate play, to draw out and extend what children learn through play (Play Based Programmes, 2015). Children have a variety of play spaces available that mimic their regular world around them, each space can be intertwined with another centre such as combining the truck centre with the block centre, or adding in some zoo animals to the area. The play based approach can be used by children of all abilities, it allows children to play independently or as a small group, and allows the children the opportunity to bring their home life into their play.

The interaction a preschooler has with the surrounding environment, whether it be physical or social, has a significant impact on the child’s development. Ramani (2012), had taken a look at playful environment versus a structured environment to see which one benefited children more when it came to social interaction and joint problem solving. The interaction shown in the experiment showed that a playful environment benefits children more because they are free to communicate and interact with other children, they were more observant of their environment, would imitate more to get their point across, and were overall more positive. Denham, Bassett, Zisser, and Wyatt (2014) evaluated the child’s engagement with the surrounding physical and social environment, along with taking a look at the ways social-emotional learning can predict how academically ready the children are.

With a plethora of new ideas, innovations, skills and opportunities, entrepreneurship has become a new trend in employment across the world. It is a good way to alleviate the pressure on employment. Entrepreneurship can improve economic efficiency, bring market innovation, increase employment opportunities and maintain employment levels (Shane, & Venkataraman,2000). Keeping this in mind, in the recent years, universities now focus their attention to promote entrepreneurship through education so as to instill motivation, confidence, interest and

The clip from Silicon Valley showed many entrepreneurs pitching their trivial products under the slogan that the products “will make the world a better place” and is “local, mobile, social”. These pitches essentially strung big words together in hopes that the investors will fund the products. This satirical portrayal of the entrepreneurs contributes to the conversations we had on the current climate of entrepreneurship and the goal of entrepreneurial ideas. As described in Avery Wiscomb’s article “The Entrepreneurship Racket”, many students and faculties are feeling the pressure of being entrepreneurs. Under this pressure, students develop ideas that are as trivial as those portrayed in the video and the contradiction between the slogans and

This article tells how a young entrepreneur named Ben Casnocha started his successful business lifestyle at 12 years old. At 12, Ben started his first company. When he was in the sixth grade he wrote an HTML code to make ComplainandResolve.com. Ben founded a software company called Comcate Incorporated at age 14. He raised about $250,000 to start Comcate. “My Start-Up Like” is a book Ben coauthored when he was 19. The book is an entrepreneurial how-to manual. The book has been described as informative and entertaining. It allows readers to gain insight into the mind of an American entrepreneur. The book was wrote to recount Ben’s finding of his e-government technology firm, Comcate. The next book Ben coauthored was “The Start-Up of You: Adapt

Is a safe place for children to learn, have fun, make friends. We ensure children feel proud of they are, and respect themselves and others. We involve children and their families in decision making and planning because we believe that in partnership we can support the children’s learning and development to their full potential. We believe that our play-based curriculum allows children learn at their own pace and reflects their interests, and is enjoyable and stimulates the learning

In child development I am studying Eliza, she’s a 2-year-old little girl with a wild imagination. She enjoys to run around and be wild, this is why I chose funaticz for my first activity with her. Funaticz is an indoor play centre so I thought it would her bring enjoyment to her, and I was right. The day was long but enjoyable, as Eliza made many friends and loved the experience. She liked it so much that on our way out she ran back in. Overall, I think it all went to plan and was quit a memorable experience.

Students often forget that educators have active lives outside of the classroom. Have you ever wondered what your professor does when he or she isn’t grading exams, answering emails or preparing the next lesson? Linda Ludwig, Director of Field Experience at Northern Michigan University, is one NMU faculty member that lives a life that is far from dull. I met Linda on flight to New Zealand. As I boarded the plane, I thought “I hope I sit by someone I can tolerate for the next 18 hours.”

Live-interactions have become an important experience in a child’s development in the modern world. Children who learn and gather information from

secretary of education states that “high-quality education" that encourages "creativity, imagination, and ingenuity’”. It is true that thirty percentage of startup business failure reasons of “unbalanced Experience or Lack of Managerial Experience”, followed by “lack of Experiences in line of goods or services” is about eleven percentage. Interestingly, company competence occupied the highest rate of failure of 46% (Statistic Verification, Entrepreneur Weekly, Small Business Development Center, Bradley University, university of Tennessee Research). In addition, successful entrepreneur usually possess “highly motivated and willingness to take initiative to execute duties” and have appropriately responsible to their activities, decision, and company’s outcomes.

Starting a business is the latest trend. Just take a look at Instagram. Several profiles have the caption ‘Entrepreneur’. At this very moment, there is someone, somewhere working on an idea, a business plan or launching a startup. Entrepreneurship is on the rise like never before. The flexibility and independence that comes with being one’s own boss is attractive and worth taking the leap in starting a business. However, most people don’t know that being an entrepreneur is a grueling journey that can be very lonely and stressful at times. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), 50% of businesses fail during the first year. Starting a business can be a scary task, but the

First, in the chapter six assessment we learned about managing small business startups. This “Do You Think Like an Entrepreneur?” assessment measures the likelihood of me becoming an entrepreneur. The self-assessment questions to some aspect of improvisation, which is a correlate of entrepreneurial intentions. Entrepreneurial improvisation consists of three elements such as creativity, ingenuity, and the ability to produce novel solutions under constrained conditions. Successful entrepreneurs also have the ability to work well under pressure while also having action, persistence, and the determination to achieve goals and solve problems in the moment. Based on my personality, I would have assumed that I would was not fit to be entrepreneur because although, I am always

In today’s globalized, competitive society entrepreneurial culture is becoming more and more popular. (Ollila and Williams). Today, there are about 17 action based venture creation programs with venture launch experience where students are supposed to go through problem based learning and learning by doing experience. (Karen , press) Many venture creation programs apply a narrow definition of entrepreneurship focusing on how to become an entrepreneur. Consequently, their education curriculum on entrepreneurship is based on opportunity identification, business development, self-employment, venture creation and growth. However, fewer venture creation programs apply a broader definition with focus on becoming entrepreneurial. So such venture creation curriculum besides every thing else provide education on personal development, creativity, self reliance, action orientation and initiative taking. (Karen, press)

We as children normally see time go by really slow and sometimes we would like time to speed through, but for adults, time will go by surprisingly fast and hoping they are able to do everything the world has to offer before their time comes. Parents will see their children grow at a blink of an eye and wonder if they missed out on their children growing up.