Entrepreneurship skills for educators

MANILA, Philippines - JPMorgan and Bayan Academy have conducted intensive technopreneurship training for Metro Manila teachers.

As part of the global financial services firm’s corporate social responsibility efforts, JPMorgan Chase and Co. (JPMC) through the JPMorgan Chase Foundation recently embarked on a training program for educators in partnership with Bayan Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Development and the Department of Education-National Capital Region. The teachers’ training on Entrepreneurship for the K to 12 Basic Educational Program seeks to equip Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE) teachers from different schools in Metro Manila with entrepreneurial knowledge in response to the implementation of the K to 12 program. These schools are early implementers of the senior high school, specifically the Technical-Vocational-Livelihood track, of the K to 12 program.

“We embarked on the development of a new entrepreneurship training and curricula for the wider school system in agreement with the DepEd, specifically for the additional two mandatory years of education or senior high school,” said Dr. Eduardo Morato, president of Bayan Academy.

Last May 24 during the closing ceremonies for the third and last batch of participants, JPMorgan Chase and Co.’s head of communications Patricia Anne Javier-Gutierrez on behalf of senior country officer Roberto Panlilio shared, “We strongly believe that by training [these] educators, we can help address the skills gap and equip the youth with the requisite skills needed to increase their chances of employability and create a highly productive workforce.”

Since 2010, JPMorgan Chase and Co. and Bayan Academy have been working together to develop technical skills training for the disengaged youth and adults from low-income communities in Manila, particularly BASECO.

Trainings previously conducted include commercial cooking, beauty care, massage and hairdressing for 360 out-of-school youth and unemployed adults.