1. College & Career Awareness
Please go to mykidsbank.org and enter the login information you have been given.
College & Career Awareness
New Teacher Training
Business Rotation

2. Resources

3. Intro to Your Instructor
Name: Megan Rees District/School: Jordan School District/Elk Ridge Middle Subjects Taught: College & Career Awareness, Exploring Business & Marketing, Computer Technology, Keyboarding New Courses: Digital Literacy, Business Office Specialists Years Teaching: 14 I graduated from USU in 2004, and finished my Master Degree in Instructional Design at Wester Governor’s last November.

4. Website Resources https://www.uen.org/cte/cca/
For official lesson plans provided by the State (need to login to UEN)
(Mrs. Funny Business)
Password for the Utah Teacher Portal: chatterbox
For updated lesson plans and new ideas!

5. Introduction

6. What You Need to Know…
The business section is divided into five sections:
Accounting & Finance
Business Administration Support
Marketing
Human Resources
Hospitality & Tourism
The business section is 23 days long. If you were to cover every lesson provided, it would take 35 days. Therefore—pick and choose carefully, but make sure you are teaching the required information.
You are no longer required to teach the given lessons. As long as you follow the standards and strands for this class, you can create your own work. However, as a new teacher, the given lessons can save you a lot of time and hassle!

7. Sample Schedule
I have provided a sample schedule that just shows the way I teach the class. This is only for your information— you do not need to use it. But the Excel sheet can be quite useful in planning your day.
You have access to a blank one and my example one.

8. A Word on Auctions
Auctions have long been a part of this class and can be a great way to motivate students.
When this class changed to CCA, many teachers dropped the Auction portion.
This is an option, but I highly recommend auctions as a reward and something to work for in the final project, if it is in your budget.

9. Accounting & Finance

10. Basic Concepts Basic concepts covered in Accounting & Finance:
Money is limited, you must make choices.
Parts of a check
Check registers and balancing a check book
Fill out a check and balance a register
Stock Market Basics (optional)
You may use the lessons provided, my lessons, or a lesson you create yourself—but make sure you cover these concepts.

11. Lesson Examples Checks & Register Excel Assignment (by Megan Rees)
Quickie Stock Market
MyKidsBank.org
Banzaii

12. Business Admin. Support

13. Basic Concepts
Basic concepts covered in Business Administration & Support:
Careers that support an office and perform office functions
Computer skills are necessary
Careers in this area can be a stepping stone to moving up to higher pay, even though they don’t necessarily require higher education to begin with.
Gain skills now to be qualified for such opportunities.
Basic Internet, browser, and searching skills
A Word Processing assignment
A Spreadsheet assignment
A Presentations Assignment
NOTE: Just ensure that at some time during the quarter, they have worked in all three programs. It does not have to be in this section.
You may use the lessons provided, my lessons, or a lesson you create yourself—but make sure you cover these concepts.

14. Lesson Examples Career Connection w/Magnets
Career Report – Microsoft Word
Payroll Clerk – Microsoft Excel

15. Marketing & Entrepreneurship

16. Basic Concepts Basic concepts covered in Marketing & Entrepreneurship:
The 4 P’s of Marketing – Product, Place, Promotion, Price
Define and understand Entrepreneurship
Use a computer to design an ad (can be done in other parts of the class)
You may use the lessons provided, my lessons, or a lesson you create yourself—but make sure you cover these concepts.

17. Lesson Examples 4 P’s of Marketing PowerPoint
Entrepreneurship PowerPoint
Commercial Video – Outfox Those Charming Schmoozers

18. Human Resources

19. Basic Concepts Basic concepts covered in Business Human Resources:
Qualities of good and bad employees
Job Applications
NOTE: In one of the CDA’s, the counselors will go over applications. For this reason, I choose to look over the examples but I don’t have my students fill out one. Just saves me time.
Interviewing tips and tricks
You may use the lessons provided, my lessons, or a lesson you create yourself—but make sure you cover these concepts.

20. Lesson Examples Application Examples HR PPT (updated by Megan Rees)
Interview Video from TPT

21. Hospitality & Tourism

22. Basic Concepts Basic concepts covered in Hospitality and Tourism:
Careers in H&T
Hospitality and Tourism in Utah
Cashiering concepts and practice
Writing and inventory (optional)
You may use the lessons provided, my lessons, or a lesson you create yourself—but make sure you cover these concepts.

23. Lesson Examples Utah Economy PPT (updated by Megan Rees)
Cashiering in Excel
Note: Personally, I do this unit last because I do Staycation as my Project Based Learning—this ties in nicely and makes it all feel like one big unit.

24. Project-Based Learning

25. Staycation by Megan Rees
Staycation can be done in lots of ways, but I wanted to share the way I do it, if that helps. All the files are available on my website, and you are welcome to tweak them however you wish.
Assign students to groups of 3 or 4
Each group chooses a location in Utah
Each group creates 3 ads to advertise the location. (Groups of 3 do 2)
Group presents one of the three to the class in a presentation
Students fill out a group evaluation for grading
Students earn points & money—the money is used for the final auction.

26. Lesson Examples Utah Economy PPT (updated by Megan Rees)
Cashiering in Excel
Note: Personally, I do this unit last because I do Staycation as my Project Based Learning—this ties in nicely and makes it all feel like one big unit.