Learners taking big steps for entrepreneurship

One of the eight key competences for lifelong learning includes the sense of entrepreneurship (UNESCO, 1996) and our IB school in Bogotá, Colombia supports students to develop this competence. A group of second grade students found different alternatives to solve simple problems at their school and began to explore entrepreneurship thanks to the nature of PYP inquiry, action and reflection.

Inspired by the transdisciplinary theme “how we organize ourselves”, a provocation activity helped students see the value of organizations on society. They watched a bee movie at home (flipped classroom strategy) and at school they linked honey bees colonies’ work with the key and related concepts (function, responsibility, organization, cooperation) and provided insights about what teamwork evokes.