A delegation of leading Latin American educators, guests of MASHAV, Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited the Ramot Weizmann School in Yavneh to learn how the school succeeds in educating multidisciplinary entrepreneurship at a young age.
Galit Zamler, the developer of an entrepreneurship program for kids and youth accompanied the delegation on its visit.
Learn more about this entrepreneurship program: https://www.tomorrowsuccess.com/Entrepreneurship-for-Kids.html
A delegation of leading Latin American educators visited the Ramot Weizmann School
1. The Ramot Weizmann School in Yavne,
led by Amalia Swisa,
hosts a delegation of leading educators
from Latin American
2. A delegation of leading Latin American educators, guests of MASHAV, Israel's
Agency for International Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, visited the Ramot Weizmann School to learn how Israel successfully
educates for entrepreneurship from an early age.
3. The first graders welcomed the delegation by singing and swinging Israeli
flags and the flags of the countries from which the guests arrived.
4. The guests were excited to hear the schoolgirl speaking their language -
Spanish, and greeting them.
6. Amalia Swisa, the principal, presented the process of choosing the
uniqueness of the school as an educator for multidisciplinary
entrepreneurship, pedagogical meanings and methods of implementation
while fostering the relationship between the partners in the process -
teachers, students, parents and the community.
7. The delegation toured the school and learned about the various disciplines
taught in the school and their integration into entrepreneurship education.
8. Students presented the learning process they had undergone, their
experience and insights they had on the topics that interest them.
9. The students came to the conclusion that learning while playing
is both enjoyable and helpful, and presented the games they
developed and their insights from the process.
10. Members of the delegation heard about the enrichment programs that the
school provides to its students, who contribute to the development of
entrepreneurial thinking, including Taasiyeda and Biomimicry.
11. The students told about the projects they developed following the learning in
the enrichment courses and how these projects solve problems they
identified.
12. The delegation members enjoyed seeing the students presenting their
projects with great confidence and in an original way.
13. Third graders developed projects in various fields, according to their choice,
and impressed the guests with their creative thinking, and in their ability to
identify opportunities for inventions that meet needs.
14. Despite the short time that the delegation had, the students insisted on
presenting them all the projects they had planned, and indeed they aroused
interest.
15. The students said that as part of the 70 anniversary of the country, they
chose to establish a museum named after Dr. Chaim Weizmann, after whom
their school was named, and explained that the museum also serves as an
escape room, enabling experiential learning about him.
16. As in Israel, Latin America also deals with the need to solve problems and
conflicts between students. The students explained their model of mediation
and presented the specially assigned room for this purpose.
17. Lia Dekel, the chairman of the Student Council, spoke about the various roles
of the students in the school, as being partners in what is happening in it, and
that entrepreneurship education taught her not to give up, to invent new
ideas, to be creative and to explore until a solution can be presented.
18. Guy Yarnitzky, Chairman of the Parents' Leadership, spoke of the courageous
partnership between the parents and the school staff in nurturing the
students and preparing them for the future by providing tools for life and
values so that they will be better citizens and contribute to the improvement
of society.
19. The school's director, Amalia Swisa, and her deputy, Shoshi Bar, summed up
the visit and answered the guests' questions.
20. "Well done!" It's amazing! you've turned a project into
a meaningful educational process, I recognize five
different levels: sharing information, consulting and
controlling, making joint decisions, transferring
responsibility to students and delegating authority - all
of this in the axis of clear pedagogy."
At the end of the visit, the delegation member Professor Luis Oscar Diaz,
technical supervisor of the Ministry of Education on schools in Argentina,
shared his deep impression of the school's method of learning.
21. The guests received a symbolic gift - a Disk On Key with the presentation
presented to them in the visit, in Spanish.
23. "The Ramot Weizmann School definitely serves as a model that
demonstrates how to implement a multidisciplinary
entrepreneurship, alongside a process of continuous learning by
both the staff and the students, ready to try and make mistakes, to
explore and improve, with the cooperation of all the parties
involved".
These are the reasons that led Galit Zamler, who developed the
Entrepreneurship for Kids Program, to recommend MASHAV to bring
the delegation to this school so that they would learn from it.