Objectives and strategies

  • The proposal is based on the assumption that the school should be, first, to train students to move in the world and the various difficulties of life, first of all the research and creation of work: able to reinvent, recycle, re-orient throughout the 'their lifetime is a key skill that the school can not now refrain from transmitting. Budd.E.R.S. comes from the reflection of a keyword: "versatility". Young people today to be within the world of work must learn to be versatile, flexible and prone to displacement and continuing education. The teachers, however, and therefore the whole cultural context in which the learning experience is fulfilled, they can not change the traditional teaching-learning process to go from a design specification for the construction of educational opportunities intentionally aimed at the development of the purposes described above. The training needs to which you want to respond with the proposed project are twofold:

    • insufficient professional competence of teachers in relation to the design of specific courses aimed at developing in the students the skills necessary to build and implement a project of their own life
    • poor attitude of teachers to experiment with alternative routes to teaching traditional, mainly aimed to include in the training program even students with BES
    • little opportunity for students to experience a mixed path from school to work, in which the theoretical knowledge learned in the traditional curriculum can be used in contexts of concrete work 
    • poor prospects and cultural horizons of students to be implemented through the exchange of experiences, the improvement of the English language and the tools of communication and work.
    • The objectives of Budd.E.R.S. then are:

      - Organize an integrated training system that can offer students the opportunity to enter the lifelong learning system;

      - Provide opportunities for students to get directly in touch with the world of business and labor;

      - Allow them to express their potential and aptitudes and interests and to better understand the limits, developing transversal competences;

      - Enable students to learn from practical experience and learn to communicate and work in an international team;

      - Training of human capital and create opportunities for employment;

      - Build an orientation on job search and analysis capabilities and motivations;

      - To overcome the traditional methods of teaching and guiding young people in the acquisition of autonomy and capacity, starting from facts;

      - Instill skills of self-orientation and train students to have confidence in themselves, demonstrate initiative, flexibility and elasticity of mind, of willingness to change;

      - On the side of teachers, Budd.E.R.S. stands the purpose of initiating a progressive restructuring of the educational and teaching techniques which are not limited only to the classic student-teacher relationship, but to explore the opportunities cognitive integrative activities and the transmission of non-formal skills useful throughout the 'arc of life, to work alongside the theoretical concepts;

      - The opportunity for students to test themselves through a real business simulation, even making mistakes, in an environment protected from the consequences of their economic and financial sphere;

      - Educating young people to evaluate the role of experiencing a whole range of business experiences, including group work, the development and design of new products, production, sales, marketing and finance;

      - To improve the capacity to relate to and be favored in the selection process of personnel, diagnose resources and personal characteristics to define potential entrepreneurial profiles;

      - Guide students toward developing a business idea, verifying its compliance to their personal characteristics and the estate in relation to the socio-economic context.