Business/Marketing Program North High School Minneapolis, MN

Team Members zBob Bollweg zDave Engelhart zCharles Hall zJennifer Monson

North High School zEnrollment 1289 zRace yNative American 1% yAfrican American68% yAsian22% yHispanic3% yWhite6% zNumber of Staff y Teachers99 yClassroom Support Staff54 yAdministrators5 ySocial Workers3 yCounselors3 Home of the Polars

Philosophy Statement for Business/Marketing Program The Business Education program will provide all students the opportunity to develop an understanding of current business concepts, practices, techniques and tools. It will support student learning in other subject areas, but most importantly, the Business Education program will provide an authentic workplace environment and curriculum that encourages students to set goals and strive to attain them, while developing an understanding of key concepts and achieving skills necessary for personal success.

Business/Marketing Program Goals zTo prepare students to enter the job market upon graduation zTo prepare students for part-time jobs while attending college. zTo prepare students for a college major in business zTo help students understand the business aspects of almost all other careers

Business/Marketing Program Goals zTo help students make intelligent business/economic decisions as voters, consumers, and workers. zTo help improve family life skills, i.e., communication and finance.

Classes Offered/Goals zBasic Keyboarding yStudents learn how to operate a keyboard using the touch method. Emphasis is place on learning the skills through drill work and timed writings. Students will work on building speed and accuracy and will apply these skills to the formatting of letters, reports, and other types of business communication.

Classes Offered/Goals zAdvanced Keyboarding  Accuracy and speed will continue to be stressed while learning to produce more complicated business letters, reports, and tables using office simulations. A major goal of this class is developing independent work skills as well as proofreading and following directions.

Classes Offered/Goals zAccounting 1  This is a full cycle of accounting for a small service business operated as a sole proprietorship, which gives students an understanding of accounting at the most basic level. Students can use this class to explore the possibility of a future as an accounting clerk, bookkeeper, accountant, or Certified Public Accounting. This basic accounting knowledge would be helpful for students as investors, voters, members of the community serving as volunteers, or just personally to enable the students to balance their checkbooks and better handle their own business affairs.

Classes Offered/Goals zAccounting 2 y Accounting 2 is based on a larger retail business organized as a partnership that both buys and sells on credit using Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and uses subsidiary ledgers. The students also learn Payroll from calculating time cards through doing all the payroll journal entries. This class would be good preparation for an Accounts Receivable Clerk, Accounts Payable Clerk, or a Payroll Clerk.

Classes Offered/Goals zOwning a Business y In this class students will learn about business types (service, retail, and manufacturing) and forms of ownership (Proprietorship, partnership, or corporation). The main project of the class is to pick a personal business they would like to own and write the business plan for it after students have done research on the business type and size and also research on the population demographics to identify their targeted customers.

Classes Offered/Goals zComputers in Business 1 y This course integrates computer literacy and applications. Students will cover a variety of topics from the origin of computers to career choices and the role of computers in the future. Students will use the Microsoft Office programs on the computer to do basic word processing, database, and spreadsheet documents.

Classes Offered/Goals zComputers in Business 2 y Students will use what they have learned in Computers in Business 1 in order to complete more advanced business applications using Microsoft Office. Students will also learn basic skills such as basic HTML, web site development, presentations, and learning how to search the web.

Course Focused On zPersonal Finance Prerequisite: None Grades 9-12

Course Focused On yPersonal Finance Description: The personal finance class ensures that students understand their role and financial responsibilities as an individual and citizen, it covers personal business management skills including checking accounts, budgeting, credit decisions, financial security planning, consumer rights and responsibilities, etc.

Units offered in Personal Finance Unit 1: Personal decision making Unit 2: Earning a living Unit 3: Budgeting Unit 4: Savings and Investing Unit 5 : Buying goods and Services Unit 6: Banking Unit 7: Using Credit Unit 8 : Protecting against risk

Unit of Focus zSavings & Investing

Big Questions zHow do you making a personal savings/investment decision? zHow do the financial markets operate?

Concept Map of Saving & Investing Unit * Private Industry Demands of the workplace - employer Upper Management - supervisors Training Department Employees

Assessment Flowchart

Unit Assessment zTest (See Handout) yGivens x50 minute class period x5 true/false questions x5 matching x15 multiple choice

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