As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
I realized, even as a sports student, I can add value to the challenges of other fields and gained confidence to accomplish the things I want to do.
At our minor market, I got to speak to one of the teachers of the minor. He explained to me about the structure of the minor, who you can be and what you can do when you sign-up for this minor. I had been studying Sport Sciences for two years and I wanted to broaden my vision beyond the context of sports. The learning approach focused on the use of Technology, Entrepreneurship and Creativity convinced me in two minutes.
At first, I had no idea at all. So, I did a brainstorming session at home, using post-its. First, I wrote down all the global challenges we face right now and then all the words related to each of the global challenges. I decided to choose words that were the most inspiring for me and in the end, I was left with two words: movement and education. Eventually, I connected them and defined how I could get them into a future solution, i.e., bringing more movement into education.
My future solution is a tool for teachers to help kids learn. My tool is focused on geography but it can used for subjects like math or language as well. The children have to place small blocks with names of European countries and capital cities, running from one side to the other side of the classroom (or gym), on the blank spot on the map that is placed on the ground. The kids are divided into two groups, so there is a spirit of competition. Also, the group has to collaborate and communicate, so each of them develops a specific role during the learning game. The most important thing is that they learn while moving. Their blood flows and oxygen level increase and that has an impact on their brain activity. Learning feels more natural to them and they learn better.
In this minor, you really get to know yourself a little bit better. The teachers ask you questions about yourself that were never asked before and help in harnessing your talent. I learned about my hidden talents, and more importantly, learned how to use my talents in an effective way. Also, a really nice aspect of this minor is that you are challenged to come up with solutions for different fields than your own major. I realized, even as a sports student, I can add value to challenges of other fields and gained confidence to accomplish things I do and want to do.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
