Curriculum organizers provide a framework for the learning outcomes, instructional strategies, assessment strategies, and learning resources provided for business education. They are not meant to be instructional organizers. Teachers should plan learning experiences that address concurrently learning outcomes from across curriculum organizers.
The Business Education Kindergarten to Grade 12 organizers have been adjusted by grade level to meet the needs of students, teachers, and other curricula. Each curriculum organizer provides direction and suggestions for teachers in four key areas: applied business practices, business technology, career development, and social responsibility.
Overall, five organizers describe the Business Education K to 12 curriculum:
Business Communication
In Business Communication, students learn about effective business interaction and gain competency in all aspects of communication. They develop keyboarding and other business-communication skills and apply them within a business context.
Finance
In Finance, students develop and apply skills in numeracy to the areas of accounting, financial and money management, short- and long-term planning, economic forecasting, risk assessment, banking, and investment. They use financial information to solve and analyse problems.
Economics
In Economics, students learn about the development, use, and management of resources by individuals, businesses, and organizations in a global, cross-cultural context. They use this knowledge to develop understanding of how economic systems are defined by and help shape the diversity of business.
Marketing
In Marketing, students learn about planning, pricing, promoting, and distributing a product, service, or idea. They also learn about the roles and responsibilities of individuals as consumers and producers, and the impact of their decisions on the marketplace.
Entrepreneurship
In Entrepreneurship, students explore the characteristics of innovators and of entrepreneurial activity. In response to entrepreneurial opportunities, they learn to generate and use their ideas to develop and evaluate business plans. Students also begin to understand the contribution of entrepreneurial activity to the economy.
The Curriculum Organizer chart identifies the curriculum organizers for each grade.
| Grades K to 3 | Grades 4 to 6 | Grades 7 to 10 | Grades 11 and 12 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundations | Business Communication | Business Communication | Business Computer Applications 11 |
| Business Information Management 12 |
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| Data Management 12 |
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| Finance and Economics | Finance | Accounting 11 | |
| Accounting 12 | |||
| Financial Accounting 12 |
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| Economics | Economics 12 | ||
| Marketing | Marketing | Marketing 11 | |
| Marketing 12 | |||
| Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship 12 | ||
| Management Innovation 12 |
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Revised: October 29, 1997
