NFTE Post-Secondary Certified Educator
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  • Level Intermediate
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NFTE Post-Secondary Certified Educator

Issued by Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship

NFTE University, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s popular teacher training course, prepares educators to teach NFTE’s suite of entrepreneurship programs. The course, an approximately twelve-hour experience, mixes learning content with typical learner experiences that range from creating a lean business canvas to presenting a pitch deck. Instructors who complete this training become certified to teach NFTE programs.

  • Type Learning
  • Level Intermediate
  • Time Days
  • Cost Paid
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  • What's NFTE? Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) ignites the entrepreneurial mindset with unique learning experiences that empower students to own their futures. NFTE is a global nonprofit founded in 1987 that provides high-quality entrepreneurship education to middle school, high school, and postsecondary students. We bring the power of entrepreneurship to students, regardless of family income, community resources, special needs, gender identity, race, or ethnicity.
  • Start It Up Goals. In this program, learners activate their entrepreneurial mindset by developing and pitching an original business plan. As they learn about the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, they also learn how to think and act entrepreneurially within any career path that they decide to pursue.
  • Activating the Entrepreneurial Mindset. An entrepreneurial mindset is a set of skills that enable people to identify and make the most of opportunities, overcome and learn from setbacks, and succeed in various settings. An entrepreneurial mindset is valued by employers, boosts educational attainment and performance, and is crucial for creating new businesses. NFTE incorporates the entrepreneurial mindset in all that we do.
  • Lean Startup Methodology. The Lean Business Canvas is a 1-page business plan template created by Ash Maurya. It is a valuable tool used to organize a business idea. Compared to a traditional written business plan, it helps learners deconstruct their idea into its core elements visually, and allows them to quickly test and iterate on its fundamental assumptions.
  • Showcasing the Business. Learners create an investor pitch deck that effectively communicates the information in their Lean Canvas. To help with this endeavor, NFTE has created a template based on Guy Kawasaki's "10 Slides You Need In Your Pitch." These slides also contain tips on what information should be on each slide and where learners can find that information in their Lean Canvas.
  • The Start It Up! curriculum is a suite of curriculum and enhanced services that helps education and workforce development organizations deliver engaging entrepreneurship education and effective skill-building programming. The course includes 14 modules that guide students through a step-by-step process from business ideation to launch. Participants follow 14 steps to complete an initial draft of a business plan. Each step contains a lesson and an assignment to build a piece of the plan.
  • Supplemental Resources. The Resource Hub is a place to share resources, news, and ideas to strengthen our instructor community. Here, you can find help for your classes, professional development resources from NFTE partners, NFTE's alumni program resources, and tips and how-to videos on NFTE's Canvas Learning Management System (LMS).
  • Tips & Tools. NFTE helps to bring relevancy to entrepreneurship education by building startup skills and assisting learners to gain new knowledge and use their creativity and insights to develop ideas while growing as leaders and innovators.
  • Final Thoughts & Next Steps! Start planning to facilitate your NFTE Start It Up! course. It is critical to connect with a NFTE Postsecondary Program Team member as a next step. In addition to being collaborative partners throughout the process, the postsecondary team will have important information to guide each partner in their planning.