ST. GEORGE'S EXPERIENTIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME (SEEP)

Sharifah Affifah, Syed Abbas ST. GEORGE'S EXPERIENTIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME (SEEP). Prosiding Seminar Nasional Pengurusan & Kepimpinan Pendidikan Ke-17 2010. pp. 143-151. ISSN 978-983-9479-72-0

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Abstract

The purpose of carrying out the SGGS Experiential Entrepreneurship Education Programme (SEEP) was to enable a quality teaching and learning process to be enhanced and incorporated through effective and innovative advancements particularly in the teaching and learning of Living Skills and Mathematics at the lower secondary and Economics, Mathematics, Accounts and Business Management at the higher level. One of the motivating factors that complement this aspiration is the Educational Development Plan itself whereby students' holistic development to meet the challenges of globalization for the real world preceded academic achievements and paper qualifications. As SGGS has the advantage of high-achiever student population, this programme was deemed suitable, enterprising and stimulating for both SGGS teachers and students. Transformation was seen as a timely opportunity to advance in line with the vision and mission of the school to become an exceptional institution of education in the ASEAN region. Thus, a long term sustainable education programme based on experiential learning was initiated with teachers being the main mentor for the experiential entrepreneurship education programme and involvement of the private sector is also deemed important. As a result, students became more eloquent through student-based activities and took charge of event management and planning. Under the tourism plan, visitors from Sarawak and MGS Singapore were all hosted by students. It was gratifying to see them make the presentation with such good confidence in public speaking. Their training in the tourism sector was also put into practice. They skillfully organized tours and guided visitors from Singapore and Thailand during the Heritage Tour. All these contributed to the achievement of projected social skill outcomes of the SEEP SGGS Experiential Entrepreneurship Education Programme (SEEP) proved to set a new paradigm shift in the process of teaching and learning particular subjects. As such, it is our hope that this programme will be further escalated into other areas of teaching and student development. We take great pride in being the sole school in northern region to have its own cafeteria that is totally manned by students and independently generating its own income. Teaching as a continuous process has been further enhanced with the implementation of this SEEP and we believe that superior teachers and excellent future leaders can be churned out from our own custom-made SGGS Experiential Entrepreneurship Education Programme (SEEP). We believe the government's intention of producing graduates capable of taking up the challenge of being an entrepreneur is right here in SGGS and we will work consistently to achieve this.

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