Name of Program:  Business Education

 

Grade Level: 8-12  

 

Population: All Students

 

Materials:

v    Accounting:  

1.    Century 21 Book 1986

v    BCIS I and II:

1.    No text Book

2.    Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Class Server

 

General Description:

Business Education is a coherent sequence of courses designed to help students gain knowledge and skills needed by business professionals. The business education career concentrations involve positions of high responsibility in the organization, administration and efficient functioning of business. Some of these career opportunities involve making decisions and supervising the activities of employees, while other career opportunities provide support services and assistance to executives, administrators and managers. Students benefit by understanding the relationship between a strong, academic foundation and a business career emphasis and gain work experience utilizing the knowledge and skills developed during the course of study.

 

These courses provides for the developing of keyboarding skills and introduction to computer applications of Microsoft Access, Excel, Power Point, Word, Outlook, and Internet Explorer.  These courses emphasize fundamentals of computer systems and an overview of skills for entry level office employment or preparation for college level courses.

 

 

 

Working Theories:

v    Balanced Literary

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/timely/brires.htm

v    Content-Based Reading

v    Multiple Intelligences

v    Brain-Based Research

v    Curriculum based Reading

v    Brain based Theory

v    Oral/Written Description- Detailing student’s mental picture

v    Construction of pictorial

 

 

 

Working Models:

v    Whole-Part-Whole (Dorothy Strickland) http://www.arp.sprnet.org/curric/Dept_Chairs/whole.htm

v    Multi-Paragraph Writing (Jane Schaffer)

v    http://www.janeschaffer.com/

v    National Standards

Pedagogical Resources

v    How to Teach: http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/0405ch01.pdf

v    http://www.tea.state.tx.us/cte/business_education/index.html

v    How to Teach business Education in Texas:

 

 

Policies: 

v    SCANS

v    Character Counts

v    Reading Improvement

v    Staff Development

v    NCLB- Three Tiers

 

 

Time Allotments:  

100% On Task

v    25% Explicit Instruction

v    15% Guided Practice

v    15% Discussion-Group & Class

v    30% Independent Practice

v    15% Review and discuss

 

Mentorship Component for New Teachers:

Mentor Observation Form

Mentor Check List

 

 

 

Classroom Engagement:

v    Visual Cues/Posted Objectives

v    Curriculum-based reading

v    Four classroom components

1.    Concrete (manipulatives, models, hands-on)

2.    Discussion/Mental model

3.    Symbolic/Pictorial

4.    Abstract (written on the board, formulations)

 

 

 

Goals:

v    All learners will be successful at 70% or above on the 1st benchmark test.

v    Students will be successful on exiting Tiers before the end of 1st semester.

v    All students will be successful on TAKS test

v    All students will strive for Commended on TAKS test

v    Reasonable growth will be evident in all areas of TAKS

v    All students will show reasonable growth on AYP

 

Major Concepts:

v    http://www.tea.state.tx.us/cte/business_education/index.html

v    How to Teach business Education in Texas:

 

Concept Weaknesses:

 

v    Objective 1 – Demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.

v    Concepts & Uses of Measurements,

 

Activities:

 

v    Lesson Plans

 

 

Resources:

 

 

Accountability:

v    YEA (pre-assessment at the beginning of the school year)

v    Benchmark tests (at the end of each six weeks)

v    Final Exam

v    TAKS test (administered during the spring semester)

v    Tier 1:  students that failed to meet minimum requirements on the Yearly Expectations Assessment given the third week of school.  These assessments were based on objectives the student needed to master from the previous grade level.  The assessments were given in English, Math, Science and Social Studies.  Parents of the students qualifying for Tier I will be notified by letter.

v    Tier 2: students that have failed to master objectives taught during the 1st-3rd six weeks of school or failed TAKS from the previous school year.  This will be measured on a benchmark test given the sixth week of school.  The parents of the students qualifying for Tier II and /or III will be notified by letter.

v    Tier 3: students that have failed to master objectives taught for the 1st semester of school or any combination of Tier I and/or II.  This will be measured on a benchmark test given at the end of the 1st semester.  The parents of the students qualifying for Tier II and/or III will be notified by letter.

 

 

 

 

Tutorial Options:

 

v    After school tutorials

v    Before school tutorials

v    Peer tutoring (Mu Alpha Theta and National Honor Society)

v    TAKS Class

 

 

Materials:

v    TAKS Buckle Down Booklets

v    TAKS Coach Booklets

v    Computer Tutorials (ie. TRACKS, Study Island)

v    Accelerated Reader Program

v    Credit Recovery Software

v    L&M Software

v    TEA online assessment

 

Allotted Time/Days:

v    Before school tutorials (7:30AM-8:00AM) arrangements made with individual teachers)

v    After school tutorials (3:30PM-4:00PM) Thursdays for high school,_________ for junior high

v    TAKS classes are offered at the high school campus throughout the school day.

 

Assessments:

v    ClassServer/teacher constructed tests