The Teaching to Undertake project, an initiative that promotes the creation and management of school cooperatives as an active learning tool, reaches its final phase this week with the celebration of island markets in El Hierro and Lanzarote in which the participating students present to the public the products made during the course as a closure to a training process that has allowed them to experience the fundamentals of entrepreneurship in a practical way from the classroom.
The Plaza de Santiago, in Valverde, hosted the El Hierro island market this Tuesday, with the participation of the early childhood and primary education centers (CEIP) Valverde, San Andrés, Taibique, La Restinga, Guarazoca and Isora and the Secondary Education Institute (IES) Garoé. The students, accompanied by their teachers and families, showed in the different stands the result of the cooperative work developed throughout the course.
In just two days there will be a new appointment of this market in Lanzarote. Specifically, the event will take place in La Paciencia Park, in the Titerroy neighborhood, in Arrecife, and will feature the participation of the educational communities of CEIP Las Mercedes and IES Haría, Costa Teguise and San Bartolomé.
Organized by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, through the General Directorate of Planning of Education, Inclusion and Innovation, coordinated by David Pablos, with the support of the Canarian Employment Service and the foundations of the two Canarian public universities, the Teaching to Undertake project is aimed at public centers of Early Childhood, Primary and Compulsory Secondary Education, and includes Enclave classrooms.
This project is part of the Red Canaria-InnovAS, specifically the axis of Art, Cultural Action and Cooperation. Throughout the school year, students have followed a complete itinerary of training and action. The phases prior to the market have included informative sessions, teacher training, workshops in schools, meetings with host city councils and work on digital platforms such as Moodle.
In each school cooperative, the students have assumed real roles and responsibilities: deciding what product to manufacture, how to design it, how to calculate costs, how to communicate it and how to sell it. All of this culminates in the final market, where they face the public as true entrepreneurs.
Its methodology is based on experience-based learning, promoting teamwork, decision-making, responsibility, creativity and critical thinking. In addition, it integrates values such as sustainability, equal opportunities, ethics and cooperation, preparing students to participate actively and committedly in their social environment.
Teaching to Undertake not only favors the individual development of students, by providing them with greater autonomy and maturity, but also strengthens the connection between school, family and community. In each edition, the project grows in participation and quality, consolidating itself as a reference initiative to promote the entrepreneurial culture from basic education in the Canary Islands.
