Course Description
This course prepares high school educators to integrate entrepreneurship education across subject areas to enhance student engagement, relevance, and real-world application. Teachers will explore how entrepreneurial thinking complements curriculum in disciplines including STEM, humanities, and the arts, and how it can be used as a lens for career readiness. By the end of the course, participants will have designed and peer-reviewed an entrepreneurship-infused unit or project plan to implement in their classrooms.
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Instructors
Tamie-Jo Dickinson, M.B.A.
Statewide Start-up Advisor, Entrepreneurship Education for VtSBDC
Tamie-Jo Dickinson, M.B.A.
Statewide Start-up Advisor, Entrepreneurship Education for VtSBDC
Tamie-Jo Dickinson is a National Board Certified Business Teacher and teaches business and entrepreneurship classes at CVU, Champlain College, CCV, and through the Governor’s Institute. She has decades of teaching under her belt and is skilled at making complex topics seem easy and attainable. Her passion is teaching accounting and entrepreneurship. She provides training opportunities for teachers around the state on how to implement entrepreneurship into their curriculum, and her students have been winners of many state-wide business plan competitions. She also taught International Business, and she has traveled to Ireland, Wales, England, Turkey and Haiti with her students.
Tamie is a certified Jazzercise Instructor, which means she is a franchise owner! She teaches adult classes twice a week, and she has taught programs for young children during the summer. She loves making and selling products using her Cricut, and she spends every free minute with her three dogs: Hank, Rico, and Rudy!
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