Curriculum

Standards-Based Objectives 

Managing their Corporation and operating their Kiosk, EnterprisePrep^tm students demonstrate these skills:

Literacy

Reading: Read business materials together and independently.

• Comprehension: Set a purpose, preview content, ask questions, and relate new learning to prior knowledge. Make and support statements about content.
• Secondary Source Research: Gather, evaluate, organize, and analyze relevant data from published and electronic media.

Speaking and Listening: Focus, speak clearly, make eye contact, and listen attentively.

• Discussion: Participate constructively in Workshops and Conferences.
• Presentation: Use strategies to command attention and inform audience.
• Interview: Conduct courteous, organized interview.

Writing: Write in coherent, reliable, concise, and clear language; vary content and form for different readers and purposes.

• Persuasive and Expository Writing: Draft, revise, edit, type, proofread:
• promotions (advertisement, commercial, press release)
• letter and memorandum (profile of an enterprising American)
• career-oriented, standards-based skills statement and portfolio
• Notes: Maintain complete and accurate notes.

Math

Accounting: Keep complete, accurate, and legible Inventory and Sale Records;
analyze sales and financial data using numerical operations and tables to determine:

• product costs and prices to charge to achieve profitability
• sales, sale revenues, expenses
• profit or loss (Income Statement), dividends, and return on investment

Marketing: Apply mathematics to make marketing decisions:

• collect and analyze survey data
• estimate number of products to buy and prices to charge

Reasoning

Decisions and Problems: To satisfy customers and operate efficiently:

• identify decision to be made or problem to be solved
• set criteria for a good decision or solution
• brainstorm needs, issues, resources, ideas, alternative decisions and solutions
• research, analyze data; compare alternatives; choose best decision, solution

Performance Evaluation: To improve customer satisfaction and efficiency: 

• identify performance to evaluate
• describe criteria for excellent performance
• gather and analyze relevant data
• identify strengths and weaknesses
• identify needed improvements and how to achieve them
• reevaluate performance at a later date

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