Course Profile   The Enterprising Person, Grade 11, Open, Public

 

Unit 2:  The Skills of the Enterprising Employee

Time:  24 hours

 

Activity 2.1 | Activity 2.2 | Activity 2.3 | Activity 2.4 | Activity 2.2.1

Unit Description

The unit starts with a large-group sharing or jigsaw to brainstorm the skills of an enterprising person. Students are then introduced to journal writing for application of theory learned and are given an opportunity for self-reflection and concept reinforcement Students investigate the differences between volunteer jobs and paid jobs, prompting them to brainstorm opportunities for skill development. The fourth activity focuses on student career research.

Unit 2 Synopsis Chart

Activity

Time

Expectations

Assessment

Tasks

2.1: Skills of an Enterprising Person

2 hours

SEV.01, SEV.02, SE1.01, SE1.02, SE1.03, SE1.04, SE2.01, SE2.02

K/U; T/I; A

1. Brainstorm the skills of an enterprising person.

2. Complete a diagram an entrepreneur.

3. Define enterprising.

2.2: Opportunities in the Community

12 hours

SEV.03, SEV.04, SE3.01, SE3.02, SE3.04, SE4.02

K/U; T/I; A; C

1. Introduce students to journal writing.

2. Survey volunteerism in the school and the community.

3. Compare volunteerism and jobs in the school and the community.

4. Take part in a career/volunteer mini-workshop with community speakers.

5. Summarize newspaper articles.

6. Write a personal article for portfolio.

2.3: Skills and Portfolio Building

5 hours

SEV.02, SEV.04, SE2.01, SE2.02, SE3.03, SE3.05, SE4.02

K/U; T/I; C; A

1. Develop a list of opportunities in the community for an enterprising person.

2. Create résumés.

3. Gap analysis of skills.

4. Create personal timeline.

2.4: Developing a Career Plan

5 hours

SEV.04, SE4.01, SE4.02, SE4.04

K/U; T/I; C; A

1. Career Research

2. Gap analysis

3. Create a career plan.

Unit Integration

 

 

 

 

5.2: Entrepreneurial Opportunities

5 hours

ENV.02, ENV.03, EEV.01, EN2.01, EN2.02, EN2.03, EN2.04, EE1.03, EN3.04, EN3.05

A; C; T/I

1. Create a job description.

2. Create an application form.

3. Create a job advertisement.

4. Develop interview questions.

5. Conduct mock interviews.

Activity 2.1:  The Skills of the Enterprising Employee

Time:  2 hours

Description

A list of attributes, skills, and characteristics that define an enterprising person is developed for use in this unit as well as for reference in the cumulating activity, the Enterprising Company Experience, in Unit 5. What makes a person enterprising is what makes them more competitive in the marketplace.

Strand(s) & Learning Expectations

Strand(s):  Skills of an Enterprising Person

Overall Expectations

SEV.01 - analyse the skills of an enterprising employee;

SEV.02 - assess the extent to which they have developed enterprising skills.

Specific Expectations

SE1.01 - explain the nature and importance of strong communication skills for an enterprising employee;

SE1.02 - explain the nature and importance of critical-analysis, problem-solving, and creative-thinking skills for an enterprising employee;

SE1.03 - describe ways in which a person can continuously develop enterprising skills;

SE1.04 - describe the self-management skills that are important to an enterprising employee;

SE2.01 - demonstrate ways in which their interests, accomplishments, relationships with others, and leisure activities have helped develop their enterprising skills;

SE2.02 - analyse their enterprising skills to identify those they have developed and those they should develop.

Prior Knowledge & Skills

Brainstorming skills. The Pedagogy Resources provide numerous suggestions for student grouping and brainstorming activities.

Planning Notes

·         Videos about enterprising, successful or entrepreneurial business people should be arranged.
(See Resources).

·         The teacher provides a list of Canadian entrepreneurs and magazine and newspaper articles about successful business people.

·         Internet access for the class should be arranged in order to research Canadian entrepreneurs and successful business people. On-line entrepreneurial and e-business magazines, as well as newspapers, may be used (see Resources).

Teaching/Learning Strategies

·         Using information from videos, the Internet, selected articles from textbooks, newspapers, or magazines, a brainstorming exercise is conducted. The knowledge of common skills, traits, and characteristics of successful business role models is developed (good communicators, problem solvers, self starters, critical thinkers, creative management skills, initiative). If videos, Internet, or print materials are not available, a general knowledge of what people do on their jobs may be substituted.

·         A list or chart is created to record these skills, traits, and characteristics in student notebooks.

·         A diagram of a person or head is labelled with the various phrases that depict an enterprising person. The Entrepreneurial Person diagram (Appendix A 3.6a and A3.6b from the Introduction to Business Profile, Public) can be used. Students generate interview questions to ask a classmate who is an employee or working person.

·         The questions should elicit information from the interviewee about skills, traits, and characteristics that make them a successful employee. A suggested guideline is found in The Entrepreneurial Spirit (question 5, p. 37) or in Enterprising People (Chapter 2).

·         Students then interview someone in the class who is an employee, or has worked at a job, using their questions and recording the answers. They compare the resulting answers to the previously generated list/note from discussions and videos and add any missing items to their list of skills, traits, and characteristics of successful business people. A definition for an enterprising person should then be deduced and recorded in their notebook.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

Involving students in the assessment process is one way to encourage the group members’ involvement. Individual grades are assigned. Students should be given the assessment tools and rubrics at the start of the activity.

·         Self-evaluation of The Entrepreneurial Person diagram using the forms found in Assess for Success, an OSSTF resource book, may be done. An exemplar of The Entrepreneurial Person should be provided by the teacher.

·         Information is recorded in note form; a definition is deduced and assessed by the teacher for accuracy.

Accommodations

·         The teacher should take into consideration the student’s IEP for specific accommodations and suggestions that address the student’s learning needs.

·         Suggestions for accommodations can be found in The Curriculum Planner K-12

Enrichment

Conduct an interview of a local entrepreneur or business person, asking about their definition of a successful or enterprising employee, and develop a list of the skills, traits, and characteristics they give you to compare to what you have already.

Alternative Strategies

·         Have students work in pairs or groups to develop a list of skills, traits, and characteristics.

·         Give students a list of skills, traits, and characteristics of enterprising people with an explanation of each point and have them brainstorm when they’ve seen that trait in themselves or others.

ESL

·         Allow for multiple viewings of videos on enterprising, successful, or entrepreneurial business people.

·         Add global figures or a figure from the country of origin of the ESL student to the list of entrepreneurs.

·         Provide a vocabulary list for idiomatic usage and challenging vocabulary.

·         ESL students may not be familiar with the use of rubrics for evaluation and may need practice.

Resources (in addition to those listed in the Overview)

Videos

Planning for Success. Toronto ON: Canadian Banking Association and Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, 1994. 20 min.

CBC. “Roots Boys,” Life and Times video series. Toronto. 60 min.

CBC. “Lynn Johnston,” Life and Times video series. Toronto. 60 min.

CBC. “Royal Canadian Air Farce,” Life and Times video series. Toronto. 60 min.

(videos may be obtained from: http://www.tv.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/)

Websites

www.entrepreneur.com

http://www.entrepreneurmag.com

www.homeofficemag.com

www.thestar.com

www.theglobeandmail.com

Appendices

The Entrepreneurial Person diagram, from Introduction to Business (BBI1O) Public Course Profile, Appendix A 3.6 and 3.6b.

 

Activity 2.2:  Opportunities in the Community

Time:  12 hours

Description

This activity and the related sub-activities are designed to have students investigate their community, looking for opportunities that are “enterprising.” Students first examine themselves, then widen their investigation to the school, and finally the community that the school is part of, by doing a walk-about, listening to guest speakers, and reading the community papers. Students write about their lives and how they have been enterprising.

Strand(s) & Learning Expectations

Strand(s):  Skills of an Enterprising Person

Overall Expectations

SEV.03 - analyse activities and experiences to identify those that develop enterprising skills in managing risk, using creative-thinking and problem-solving techniques, and sharing ideas;

SEV.04 - demonstrate how activities that develop enterprising skills can be incorporated into their career plan.

Specific Expectations

SE3.01 - identify opportunities within the school curriculum to apply and develop enterprising skills;

SE3.02 - identify co-curricular opportunities that can help develop enterprising skills;

SE3.04 - identify opportunities to participate in volunteer community service programs that require enterprising skills;

SE4.02 - compare specific entry-level jobs in terms of the opportunities they present to apply and develop enterprising skills.

Prior Knowledge & Skills

Students should:

·         be able to identify characteristics, skills, and traits of enterprising people;

·         know what a survey is, how to conduct one, and how to draw inferences from it;

·         be familiar with the basic layout of community or area used for walk-about;

·         have basic word-processing skills in order to type newspaper summary and autobiography.

Planning Notes

·         Students look at the local community as an “opportunity rich” environment that can help them build their enterprising skills. The teacher presents students with a diverse set of activities that focus on the community as an opportunity resource. The activities include reflective journal writing, school survey, a community walk-about, career mini-workshop, newspaper article summary, and an autobiographic report.

·         The first activity introduces students to reflective journal writing. The teacher may provide students with a separate notebook or suggest students purchase one to document their learning. Reflective writing activities are used throughout the course. The teacher should direct the initial journal writing activity because students need to warm to the process. The teacher can build on past learning by asking students to reflect on what they learned in the prior unit, such as “What are some of the skills an enterprising person needs? Explain.” “What successful business person that we learned about did you like the most and why?” “What is something you did that was risky but that had a successful outcome?” An excellent segue to the next activity would be to have students write a journal entry about what an enterprising person has done when she/he was in high school. The entry could include clubs they were part of, sports teams they played on, and academic achievement.

·         A class discussion after the journal writing exercise, led by the teacher, shows students that schools offer many opportunities to be enterprising. Teachers can suggest that being enterprising in school can involve good academic performance, strong work habits, mentoring, peer helping, volunteering, and paying jobs. Students are then placed into groups of three or four. Each group is given a large piece of flip chart paper and asked to brainstorm all the different opportunities within the school community a person could use to demonstrate their enterprising spirit. Some possible responses for volunteer activities could be representing your school on a sports or academic team, being part of a club, acting in a play, and being a member of student council. Paying jobs at the school could be answering phones in the office at lunch, handing out books in the bookstore, and scoring sports games. Students may walk around the school to better picture the wide scope of activities for enterprising people to participate in.

·         Teachers need to do pre-lesson preparation in advance. Teachers should consult administration regarding the field trip procedure for their school because this activity requires that students leave the school. Prior to this activity, permission forms need to be handed out so parents and students have ample time to return them to the school. The teacher should also prepare a survey sheet and have clipboards for students to carry around and record their findings. The sheets should allow students to record both volunteer and paying jobs in the community. The sheet should focus on how the “community opportunity” allows students to be enterprising. The activity has students work in pairs, walk around their community and take inventory of the enterprising opportunities. Students should focus on paying jobs that are available to them now. Examples of jobs they might find are busboy, baker, cashier, retail salesperson, and lifeguard. Volunteer opportunities might be coaching, candy striping, and working with youth groups and environmental clubs. Teachers may wish to assist students by providing a list of possible destinations in their community, and some simple “do’s” and “don’ts” for approaching the various opportunities. Advance contact with some community members may be advisable.

·         The findings of the last two exercises are compared and discussed. The activities show students that their community has many opportunities for them to flex their “enterprising muscles.” The findings could be used to help students look at opportunities in the community that are not presently being realized.

·         The teacher organizes a career/volunteer mini-workshop. Over two or three days, the teacher brings in guest speakers from the community who represent organizations where the students can go and either volunteer or apply for jobs. Possible guest speakers could be the community police officer, the local SPCA officer, a teacher from the local elementary school, or a community business owner. Students prepare a report summarizing the information presented by the three guest speakers they found the most interesting.

·         The teacher, prior to this activity, collects articles from the community paper looking for stories that discuss successful people in the community. The teacher then gives students a package of two or three articles to read and summarize. Below their summary, students should write an opinion piece that explains what they thought was the “lesson” or “key to success” for the article’s main subject.

·         The final activity has students add to their portfolio. Students write a newspaper-style article about themselves similar to what they saw in the prior activity. The article focuses on the student’s life and highlights a past experience. Students can choose the highlight for their article, though some suggestions may be winning the city championship, acting in the school play, getting a job, driving for the first time, getting the high score at a video game. When students are writing the article, they should reflect on the enterprising skills they used or learned while accomplishing the task. Students should also chronicle the hard work done to make the highlight a reality, like late night practices or months in driving school. Key players (e.g., friend, parent, sibling, or teacher) can also be mentioned as people who helped out. The teacher books the computer lab if the articles are to be desktop-published.

Teaching/Learning Strategies

·         The first sub-activity is reflective journal writing. This is the first time students write a journal entry, therefore the exercise would benefit from the teacher’s asking directed questions. The teacher directs the journal writing to reflect learning done in the previous exercise.

·         The school survey allows students to explore their own “turf” and find out about clubs, activities, and teams that allow people to develop and use their enterprising skill, traits and characteristics. For management of time and crowd control in halls, students should be placed in survey teams.

·         The community walk-about is an excellent learner-centred activity. Students, for safety reasons, should work in groups of two or three. A sample data-collection sheet is found in Appendix 2.2.1.

·         The career mini-workshop is an excellent way to get students to meet contacts from the community who offer enterprising opportunities and for teachers to discuss personal presentation skills, such as language, appearance, and manners.

·         The article summary exposes students to a model of the next exercise. Every student should complete the summary individually. This exercise should solidify for students that there are enterprising role models in the community.

·         The autobiographical story is also to be done individually. This exercise could be seen as a “formal” reflection exercise that has students look back at their lives for examples of enterprising actions or skills they displayed or used. The previous activity, which looked at a newspaper article telling the story of an enterprising person, should be used as a model.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

Focus: Knowledge/Understanding, Thinking/Inquiry, Communication, Application

Formative

·         Both the school survey and community walk-about findings should be submitted to the teacher for assessment. Assessment is done with verbal and written feedback. Assessment should address students’ understanding of an enterprising opportunity and if they correctly identified ones in their community.

·         Students, using Appendix 2.2.2 – Written Report Rubric, assess the autobiographic report.

Summative

·         Evaluation of the article summary deals with correct identification of enterprising traits discussed in article, making connection with information discussed in Activity 2.1, understanding of the article, and language skills, using Appendix 2.2.2 – Written Report Rubric.

Accommodations

Enrichment

·         Have students compare findings from their community walk-about to those of a community of equal size, diversity, or industry. To complete this task, students can use the Internet or Library/Resource Centre to research the other community.

·         For the newspaper article summary, students could perform a gap analysis of skills, traits, and characteristics possessed by the subject to those learned in Activity 2.1.

Alternative Strategies

·         Instead of physically leaving the school for the community walk-about, students could scan a community newspaper looking for opportunities.

·         Have a collection of pre-selected newspaper articles with a list of questions that can be answered to complete the exercise.

·         Provide a worksheet that maps out the autobiography exercise, steering students toward completing the assignment by asking leading questions.

·         Students can write a story about their favourite fictional character if an autobiography presents too many challenges.

·         Students can use the school yearbook or website instead of physically walking around the school.

·         Teachers can use the websites of community businesses instead of the community walk-about.

·         If the newspaper article format is too challenging, students could write a short story.

ESL

·         ESL students may not be acquainted with the idea of what a survey is, how to conduct one, and how to draw inferences from it and may need practice.

·         Provide a graphic for the walk-about or pair with another student who can serve as a “guide”.

·         Encourage autobiographical journal entries about entrepreneurial activities that the ESL student might have undertaken or are familiar with occurring in the high school in their country of origin.

·         Permission forms for field trip activity may have to be translated for parent use.

Resources

Teachers present examples of possible community-based enterprising opportunities by using their community newspaper, school website, newsletter, and yearbook. As well the Overview Resources provide students with examples of opportunities to look for in their community.

Appendices

Activity 2.2.1 – Community Walk-about Data Sheet

Activity 2.3:  Skills and Portfolio Building

Time:  5 hours

Description

This activity builds on the portfolio created in Unit 1. Students discover community resources to help enterprising employees. Next, students creatively develop a timeline of their life expectations. Finally, students choose their dream job, develop a résumé for the perfect candidate for the job, and then develop a gap analysis.

Strand(s) & Learning Expectations

Strand(s):  The Skills of the Enterprising Employee

Overall Expectations

SEV.02 - assess the extent to which they have developed enterprising skills;

SEV.04 - demonstrate how activities that develop enterprising skills can be incorporated into their career plan.

Specific Expectations

SE2.01 - demonstrate ways in which their interests, accomplishments, relationships with others, and leisure activities have helped develop their enterprising skills;

SE2.02 - analyse their enterprising skills to identify those they have developed and those they should develop;

SE3.03 - assess opportunities to develop enterprising attributes and skills through part-time jobs;

SE3.05 - demonstrate enterprising skills through participation in volunteer, school, or business program;

SE4.02 - compare specific entry-level jobs in terms of the opportunities they present to apply and develop enterprising skills.

Prior Knowledge & Skills

Students need a copy of their résumé developed in the Grade 10 Career Studies course. Students need to be familiar with word-processing software. The Public and Catholic versions of the Introduction to Information Technology, BTT1O/2O Course Profile, supply a checklist and remedial exercises to help students get up to speed in word processing.

Planning Notes

Chart paper and markers are needed for the brainstorming activity. Bristol board or 11" x 17" paper, magazines, markers, glue, rulers, pencil crayons, and scissors are needed for the timeline. Students can provide many of these, but should be told ahead of time. You may provide an example of your timeline as a demonstration. Finally, two class periods should be scheduled in a computer lab for the résumé activity.

Teaching/Learning Strategies

·         Arrange students in groups of four or five. Have students brainstorm all the enterprising skills that can be learned from a part-time job, volunteer community service, sports teams, school clubs, etc. The groups write their answers on chart paper. Each group shares their findings with the class.

·         Students create a timeline that includes the rest of their lives that illustrates the major activities they would like to do and the goals they would like to attain. The timeline should start at their birth (so that they can include all past experiences) and continue until their 90+ birthday. Students should include education, career, travel, family, and personal activities. The timeline should be completed on an 11" by 17" paper and include pictures, diagrams, and explanations.

·         In the computer lab, students update the résumé they produced in Grade 10 Career Studies. Students then create a second fictional résumé for a job they would like to have after graduation. This may be an entry-level position or one they may attain in their early thirties. The second résumé is for an outstanding candidate for this position. The third step is to create a gap analysis of the two résumés.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

Focus: Knowledge/Understanding, Thinking/Inquiry, Communication, Application

Involving students in the assessment process is one way to encourage the group members’ involvement. Individual grades are assigned. Students should be given the assessment tools and rubrics at the start of the activity.

Formative

·         Informal observation of students by the teacher.

·         Verbal feedback from the teacher to students.

·         Timeline self-assessment, the teacher assesses the timeline and the self-evaluation form.

·         The teacher and student conference on the résumés and gap analysis.

Introduction to Information Technology, BTT1O/2O, provides a Portfolio Rubric, Appendix 5-12. Students should be encouraged to self-assess their portfolio and make the necessary changes.

Accommodations

·         The teacher may pair certain students at the computer to address individual special needs.

·         The teacher should move around the room and provide feedback to students.

·         Refer to accommodations in course outline if required.

Enrichment

·         Students could search the Internet for actual job descriptions and résumés for their dream jobs.

Alternative Strategies

·         The teacher may provide copies of outstanding résumés for dream jobs for students to assess.

·         Provide an exemplar of a timeline.

·         Specific assistance from family members would be useful, with those members providing information, perhaps on data collection sheets that they would sign to help develop a timeline.

ESL

·         ESL students may not have a résumé developed in the Grade 10 Career Studies course and need extra time and/or instruction on how to prepare one.

·         Grouping of ESL students should take into account use of the first language and extra time to execute discussions, formulate responses, and take part in brainstorming. Students may need help with vocabulary while brainstorming or need work on a vocabulary list prior to brainstorming.

 

Activity 2.4:  Developing a Career Plan

Time:  5 hours

Description

Students choose a career and develop a career plan that includes a gap analysis. Learning what skills and attributes need to be developed by the student to become an enterprising employee enhances their chances of being more marketable in their chosen career of interest.

Strand(s) & Learning Expectations

Strand(s):  The Skills of an Enterprising Employee

Overall Expectations

SEV.04 - demonstrate how activities that develop enterprising skills can be incorporated into their career plan.

Specific Expectations

SE4.01 - identify careers that are of most interest to them;

SE4.02 - compare specific entry-level jobs in terms of the opportunities they present to apply and develop enterprising skills;

SE4.04 - incorporate their current interests, and abilities into a career plan.

Prior Knowledge & Skills

Student should have Internet research skills.

Planning Notes

The teacher needs to arrange for full class access to the Internet and should check for current availability of the sites to be used. Two assessment sites with on-line career research assistance are: http://jacc.becon.org and http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/

Teaching/Learning Strategies

·         Using assessment tools from the websites http://jacc.becon.org and http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/, students determine their current employability skills, aptitudes, and interests. Assessment worksheets are filled in on the site to begin the research process.

·         Print materials may be substituted if Internet access is not available for assessment and career research. Assessment steps may also be found in Appendix 2.7.1 – Leadership Matching Exercise from Introduction to Business (BBI1O) Catholic Course Profile; Appendix 23 – Data Collection Chart from Career Studies (GLC2OP) Public Course Profile; or the Appendix A – Action Plan from Career Studies (GLC2OC) Catholic Course Profile.

·         Students research the various resulting career choices that match their finished self-assessment to determine what is needed to achieve their chosen career direction.

·         A gap analysis (where they are versus where they want to be) is done to determine the pre-requisite steps to obtain their career choice.

·         A career report is completed, including all the information obtained from their research (job description, education needed, future needs for this career, salary, related jobs) and presented orally to the class.

·         Personal reflection based on the presentations in the form of a teacher-directed journal entry.

·         The resulting assessment tools (employability skills, aptitudes, interests, and gap analysis) are placed in the student’s portfolio to be used later in the Enterprising Company Experience in Unit 5 to help determine where they fit into an enterprising company’s profile.

Portfolios

Suggestions for setting up a portfolio may be found in Quality Assessment, Fitting the Pieces Together, pp. 150-156. It gives the teacher questions to consider before implementing a portfolio system, an outline of the three main types of portfolios, and four steps essential in the portfolio process. This resource provides powerful suggestions for the teacher using a portfolio system.

Assessment & Evaluation of Student Achievement

Focus: Knowledge/Understanding, Thinking/Inquiry, Application, Communication

·         Assessment worksheets (employability skills, aptitudes, interests, and the gap analysis), either completed from websites or from a textbook, are used to complete the career research report and then included in the student’s portfolio for further use in the cumulating activity, The Enterprising Company Experience, in Unit 5.

·         The completed career research report is presented to the class and assessed by the teacher using the appropriate marking rubric from the Appendices. (Appendix 2.4.1 – Electronic Presentation Rubric; Appendix 2.2.2 – Written Report Rubric; Appendix 2.4.3 – Oral Report Rubric)

Accommodations

Enrichment

·         An electronic presentation or written career report may be substituted for the oral report. The appropriate assessment rubric should be used from the Appendices.

Alternative Strategies

·         The student’s IEP should be consulted for the appropriate type of report that reflects the student’s special learning needs. The appropriate assessment rubric should be used from the Appendices.

ESL

·         ESL students should be allowed and encouraged to use bilingual dictionaries at all times and especially when working on vocabulary-laden activities such as the on-line determination of their current employability skills, aptitudes, and interests.

Resources

Print

The Entrepreneurial Spirit textbook (Chapter 4)

Websites

http://jacc.becon.org

http://www.BrockU.CA/career/career/research4.html

http://www.cybf.ca/

http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/

Appendices

Appendix 2.2.2 – Written Report Rubric

Appendix 2.4.1 – Electronic Presentation Rubric

Appendix 2.4.3 – Oral Report Rubric

Appendix 2.7.1 – Leadership Matching Exercise, from Introduction to Business (BBI1O)

Catholic Profile.

Appendix 23 – Data Collection Chart, from Career Studies (GLC2OP) Public Profile.

Appendix A – Action Plan, from Career Studies (GLC2OC) Catholic Profile


Activity 2.2.1

Community Walk-about Data Sheet

 

Name of Organization

Contact Name and Phone Number

Opportunities Available

Duties Include

Volunteer (V) or Paying (P)

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Appendix 2.2.2

Written Report Rubric

 

Criteria

Level 1
(50-59%)

Level 2
(60-69%)

Level 3
(70-79%)

Level 4
(80-89%)

Knowledge/Understanding

Understanding of concepts, principles and theories

 

 

Expectation:

 

Key concepts/ principles/theories related to the expectation:

- demonstrates limited understanding of the key concepts, principles and theories

- demonstrates some understanding of the key concepts, principles and theories

- demonstrates considerable understanding of the key concepts, principles and theories

- demonstrates a through and insightful understanding of the key concepts, principles and theories

Thinking/Inquiry

Inquiry skills

- demonstrates limited ability to use specific strategies to gather information and generate ideas for a written report

- demonstrates limited ability to use specific strategies to gather information and generate ideas for a written report

- demonstrates limited ability to use specific strategies to gather information and generate ideas for a written report

- demonstrates limited ability to use specific strategies to gather information and generate ideas for a written report

Communication

Communication of information and ideas

- demonstrates limited ability to use language conventions to write correctly

- demonstrates some ability to use language conventions to write correctly

- demonstrates considerable ability to use language conventions to write

- demonstrates a high degree of ability to use language conventions to write correctly

Note: A student whose achievement is below level 1 (50%) has not met the expectations for this assignment or activity.


Appendix 2.4.1

Electronic Presentation Rubric

Criteria

Level 1
(50-59%)

Level 2
(60-69%)

Level 3
(70-79%)

Level 4
(80-100%)

Knowledge/Understanding

Knowledge of facts and terms

Expectation:

- demonstrates limited knowledge of facts and terms

- demonstrates some knowledge of facts and terms

- demonstrates considerable knowledge of facts and terms

- demonstrates thorough insightful knowledge of facts and terms

Understanding of concepts, principles, and theories

Expectation:

- demonstrates limited ability to identify and explain content on topic

- demonstrates some ability to identify and explain content on topic

- demonstrates considerable ability to explain content on topic

- demonstrates through ability to explain all aspects of content on topic

Thinking/Inquiry

Critical and creative thinking skills (e.g., to identify the problem, topic, issue, explore alternative, collect the data)

Expectation:

 

 

- demonstrates limited ability to use specific strategies to gather information and generate ideas for a presentation

- demonstrates some ability to use specific strategies to gather information and to generate ideas for a presentation

- demonstrates considerable ability to use specific strategies to gather information and to generate ideas for a presentation

- demonstrates considerable ability to use specific strategies to gather information and to generate ideas for a presentation

Application

Application of concepts, skills, and procedures in familiar (to new) contexts

Expectation:

 

 

- demonstrates limited ability to use an organizational pattern to structure ideas for a presentation

- demonstrates some ability to use an organizational pattern to structure ideas for a presentation

- demonstrates considerable ability to use an organizational pattern to structure ideas for a presentation

- demonstrates a high degree of ability to use an organizational pattern to structure ideas for a presentation

Use of equipment, materials and technology

Expectation:

- demonstrates limited ability to use strategies for style, text, background, timing or transitions

- demonstrates limited ability to use strategies for style, text, background, timing or transitions

- demonstrates limited ability to use strategies for style, text, background, timing or transitions

- demonstrates limited ability to use strategies for style, text, background, timing or transitions

 

Note: Space is provided to include the specific expectation related to the assignment.

Note: A student whose achievement is below level 1 (50%) has not met the expectations for this assignment or activity.


Appendix 2.4.3

Oral Report Rubric

 

Criteria

Level 1
(50-50%)

Level 2
(60-69%)

Level 3
(70-79%)

Level 4
(80-100%)

Knowledge/Understanding

Knowledge of facts and terms

- demonstrates limited knowledge of facts and terms

- demonstrates some knowledge of facts and terms

- demonstrates considerable knowledge of facts and terms

- demonstrates thorough knowledge of facts and terms

Communication

Use of language, symbols, visuals

- demonstrates limited ability to use vocabulary and language conventions to speak clearly and correctly

- demonstrates some ability to use vocabulary and language conventions to speak clearly and correctly

- demonstrates considerable ability to use vocabulary and language conventions to speak clearly and correctly

- demonstrates a high degree of ability to use vocabulary and language conventions to speak clearly and correctly

Communication for different audiences and purposes

- demonstrates limited ability to use strategies for effective business communication

- demonstrates some ability to use strategies for effective business communication

- demonstrates considerable ability to use strategies for effective business communication

- demonstrates a high degree of ability to use strategies for effective business communication

Communication of information and ideas

- demonstrates limited ability to communicate information and ideas with clarity

- demonstrates some ability to communicate information and ideas with clarity

- demonstrates considerable ability to communicate information and ideas with limited clarity

- demonstrates a high degree of ability to communicate information and ideas with clarity

Note: A student whose achievement is below level 1 (50%) has not met the expectations for this assignment or activity.

 

 

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