How to Design Learning That Moves Students to Act

Inquiry-based learning, career education and entrepreneurship education look like separate initiatives, but they overlap in one goal: helping students form their own questions, connect with society and build the confidence to try things. This three-hour program starts from that overlap and gathers practitioners from across Japan to discuss how to design learning that gets students moving on their own. The agenda runs from an opening talk into a cross-talk with two classroom teachers, followed by regional breakout rounds, thematic breakout rounds, a plenary share-back and a closing session. The thematic tracks cover how to move inquiry beyond "research and present", how student agency and ownership actually develop, how to build a school culture that turns failure and trial-and-error into learning, how to design learning that links schools with society, and how to create conditions for teachers to keep taking on challenges themselves. Attendance is free. Participants can join online over Zoom or in person at Tokyo Innovation Base 1F in Marunouchi, Tokyo. The audience is mainly junior high and high school teachers, with boards of education, universities, companies, local governments and NPOs also welcome. No prior experience with entrepreneurship education is required.