Educators from around the country have helped us create five lessons in our new Entrepreneurship Unit.
Lesson Plans
Types of Business Ownership
- Objectives
- Explain the different types of business ownership
- Describe advantages and disadvantages of sole proprietorships
- Describe advantages and disadvantages of partnerships
- Describe advantages and disadvantages of corporations
- Recognize importance of a franchise option
Principles of Business and Personal Ethics
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Objectives
- Recognize the role of ethics in business and become familiar with a code of ethics for business use
- Define ethics and business ethics
- Identify ethical behavior in business
- Use steps to solve ethical dilemmas in business
- Research the code of ethics for a business and analyze its policies
- Design a personal code of ethics statement
Defining Roles of Social Entrepreneurs & Social Responsibility
- Objectives
- Evaluate how interdependence impacts individuals, institutions, and societies
- Examine principles and examples surrounding the concepts of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG), Conscious Capitalism, and The Common Good
- Evaluate how societies have balanced individual freedoms, responsibilities, and human dignity versus the common good
Understanding Consumers, Decisions & Markets
- Objectives
- Analyze the role of consumers in entrepreneurship
- Analyze decisions entrepreneurs make related to consumers
- Examine the role of markets/marketing in entrepreneurship
- Apply understanding of the role of consumers, decisions, and markets/marketing to entrepreneurship
Recognizing Leaders and Managers
- Objectives
- Define leadership in management
- Identify characteristics of leadership
- Explain the responsibilities of managers at each level and differentiate between the various levels of management in a company
- Compare and contrast different styles of leadership
- Predict which leadership style is most effective with various types of employees
More lessons coming! If you have an idea about an Entrepreneurship topic you would like to see created into a lesson, send us your ideas! Better yet, if you're an educator familiar with Take Charge Today's lesson format and would like to be considered as a curriculum writer for this project, please feel free to send us a current resume/CV and tell us about your experience, takechargetoday@arizona.edu.
