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Program Description
Business Pathway, offered at Tallmadge High School, is a series of courses designed to give students comprehensive skills and knowledge that lead to post-secondary jobs or higher education in a variety of business careers. Business Pathway offers students the ability to build a solid background in business/marketing-related concepts necessary to successfully earn a bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Marketing, Finance, and/or Accounting. Students will also join nationally recognized business organizations for high school and college students, DECA and/or Business Professionals of America (BPA), in order to enhance leadership skills and provide connectivity to the project-oriented business world.
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- Prerequisite course for Business Pathway
- Fundamental business activities
- Business processes, economics, and business relationships
- Employability skills, communications, and personal financial literacy
- Introduction to fundamental knowledge and skills in marketing communications, marketing management, marketing research, merchandising and professional selling
- Acquire knowledge of marketing strategies, market identification techniques, business ethics and law, economic principles and international business
- Technology, employability skills, leadership and communication
- Student participation in DECA
- Demonstrate sales processes and techniques used in a business-to-business environment
- Develop, grow and maintain positive business relationships
- Monitor trends and the business environment to determine the impact on sales, customers and competitors
- Negotiate and adjust prices and sales items
- Manage sales activities and territories
- Technology, employability skills, leadership and communications
- Student participation in DECA
- Management principles and leadership skills
- Entrepreneurial focus and marketing research
- Students will create a business plan
- Students will utilize Excel to create break-even analyses, accounting fundamentals, financing
- Fundamental knowledge and skills in general management, human resources, operations
- Business operations, business relationships, resource management
- Introduction to financial principles
- Students will use technological tools and applications to develop business insights
- Investment strategies, savings vehicles, application of financial ratios and participation in a Stock Market Simulation
- Develop leadership skills via study of Ethics, creating a digital portfolio, solving/studying real life business scenarios including participating in the student club, Business Professionals of America (BPA)
- Financial statement analysis, interpreting technical documents, and analyzing debt packages
- Project-oriented class emphasizing how effectively students apply what they are learning to real world business situations
- Entrepreneurship and Management Focus designed to build effective managers/BPA membership included
- Students create a Business Plan, conduct marketing research and analyze case studies to finesse Leadership skills
- Excel skills strengthened by applying accounting and finance principles to relevant work
- Project-oriented class with Risk Analysis and the Business Environment
- Apply skills in a comprehensive and authentic way
- May include project/problem-based learning opportunities both in and away from school
- Under supervision and through community partnerships, students may combine classroom learning with work experience
1 credit per course
Business Foundations is a prerequisite for courses in the Business Pathway.
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