August 31 & September 1, 2016 Juggling, Cup Pyramids

Do Now:  Answer the following questions in Google Classroom in a Google Doc. Justify your answers.:

When you are part of a project team:

1. Do you take charge or let other team members lead?  Why?
2. Do you like working with others on group projects? Why or Why not?
3. Do you do your fair share of the work to complete the project?  Why or Why not?
4. How do you respond to members of your team who you feel are not doing their fair share of the work to complete the project?  Has this response proven effective in changing their behavior?
5. How does working on a team in school prepare you for your future career?

Objective #1: Students will work in teams to practice collaboration, responsibility, problem solving, flexibility, communication skills, and teamwork. They will reflect on how effective their teams are at completing the activities by writing in their journal and how they can improve their team and individual effectiveness in the future.

Juggling

1. We will go outside to complete this activity. Please complete any journal entries and gather your personal items. We will meet on the grass by the softball field.
2. Count off by 3 to determine which team you will be a member of for this activity.
3. Form three circles in your designated teams.
4. How did your team’s strategy change during the second attempt? Was it more or less successful? Why?

Building a Cup Pyramid

1. The goal of this activity is to be the first team to build a pyramid using all of the cups.
2. Students may not touch the cups with their hands. Each team must use the tool provided to move and place the cups into a pyramid shape.
3. You will have 15 minutes to complete the task. The first team to successfully construct a pyramid will receive a prize.

Individual Reflection- Using the assignment in Google Classroom, create a Google Doc titled to capture your reflection of this activity.

1. Describe how your team planned to complete the task before you started.

2. Reflect on the process your team used in completing the tasks.
Did your team produce the results you expected?
What would you do differently if you could do this activity again?

3. What did you learn from this activity that you can apply to future project teams?

Objective #2: Students will actively listen to an oral description of a crime scene, students will work in their team to decide on and take turns asking “yes or no” questions to discern and describe the victims and the cause of the crime.

High School of Business CSI

• Students will listen to a short description of a crime scene
• 5 minutes to work with your team and decide how you will ask yes or no questions to solve the crime.
• Teams will take turns asking “yes” or “no” questions until the crime is solved.
• Verbally debrief as a class.
• Reflection and journal entry.  Create a Google Doc titled HSB CSI Reflection to capture your reflection of this activity.  Answer and expand on the following questions in your reflection:
  1. Describe the process your team used to determine what questions to ask.
  2. What clues were the most helpful in solving this mystery?
  3. What assumptions did you make that influenced your team’s ability to solve this mystery?
  4. How did your assumptions about any situation affect your team’s ability to solve problems?
  5. What did you learn from this activity that you can apply to future projects?

August 30, 2016 Management Structures

Do Now:

After years of booming business and great success, a large corporation’s sales dropped sharply, and the company teetered on the edge of ruin. Thousands of employees were let go, and those who were able to keep their jobs watched their bonuses, pay raises, and benefits disappear. Then, it was just a matter of time before the entire company collapsed and everybody lost their jobs.

Due to the extreme change in fortune that the company experienced, the chief executive officer and other top executives came under great scrutiny. Journalists, the government, and the population in general asked questions about management’s involvement in the sudden decline of the company. In addition, many of these same individuals began to question why many of the top executives garnered multi-million dollar salaries at the same time that the business was failing.

Should the CEO and top executives be held responsible for the collapse of their company? And, were the top executives compensated fairly, given their high-level positions with the company, or were they grossly overpaid?

Objective:  Students will explore the need and nature of management structures found in the reading assignment and will discuss how to create an effective structure for the three Management Projects that we will be working on this year.  Students will review in writing the DECA Student Based Enterprise guidelines with the goal of completing an application by the January 20, 2017 deadline.

Classwork:  Review the Management Case Study and follow the directions to answer the questions and make a recommendation.

Students will divide into four planning teams.  to begin planning the goals, structure, and resource requirements using the SBE-Certification-Guidelines-2017 for four projects:

1. JFK Business Association including DECA and FBLA
2. School Store
3. Concession Cart
4. Community Service Project

 

August 29 & 30, 2016 – HSB Quiz, Big Picture, HSB CSI

Objective:  Students will work in teams to practice collaboration, responsibility, problem solving, flexibility, communication skills, and teamwork.  They will reflect on how effective their teams are at completing the activities by writing in their journal and how they can improve their team and individual effectiveness in the future.

High School of Business Quiz

• Log on to Google Classroom and open the assignment but do not open the quiz document until your are told to do so.
• You may use any resource in the classroom that you want.
• You only have five minutes to complete the quiz.
• You have 60 seconds to decide if you want to work by yourself or in a group of up to four people and to plan your strategy.
• You will be told when you can start the quiz.
• Verbally debrief as a class
• Individual Reflection- In the High School of Business Quiz assignment in Google Classroom, create a Google Doc titled HSB Quiz Reflection to capture your reflection of this activity.  Answer and expand on the following questions in your reflection:
  1. Did you complete the quiz individually or as part of a team?  Why?
  2. Were you happy with the results?  Why or Why not?
  3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working individually
  4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working with a team?
  5. What did you learn from the activity that will help you in future projects?

The Big Picture

• Working in teams of 7 or 8, students will construct a large image based on small puzzle pieces assigned to them.
• Using poster paper, 8.5 x 11 paper, markers, colored pencils, crayons, tape, rulers and scissors make a larger version of your image.
• 5 minutes to discuss among your team how you can complete the assignment in the 30 minutes and write a plan in a shared Google Docs attached to this assignment in Google Classroom.
• Team members may talk with each other while working
• When the 5 minute planning time has expired, you will have 30 minutes to work on your drawings.
• Verbally debrief as a class.
• Individual Reflection- In the Big Picture assignment in Google Classroom create a Google Doc titled HSB Quiz Reflection to capture your reflection of this activity.  Answer and expand on the following questions in your reflection:
  1. What strategy did your team use to complete this project?
  2. How effective was your strategy?
  3. How and Why did your strategy change during the project?
  4. What did you learn from this activity that will help you in future projects?

August 26, 2016 JFK FBLA Events

What is a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO)?

Click on the logo to view a Power Point on the JFK Business Association.

Travel

• Fall Leadership Conference
• District Leadership Conferences
• State Leadership Conferences
• National and International Conferences

Competition

• Role Play Events
• Speaking Events
• Team and Individual Events
• Test Events
• Chapter Events

FBLA-PBL __ Choosing Your Competitive Event (FBLA)

Awards

• Scholarships
• Cash Awards
• Trophiesd

Community Service

Classwork:  Using the FBLA web site, investigate the requirements and expectations for the competitive events.  Look for two or three that you would be interested in competing.  Remember to identify if the event is an individual, team, or chapter event.  There are limitations on the number of competitors that our chapter can register.  You need to have a first, second and third choice event identified.

FBLA  Plan on choosing an Individual Objective Test event (no limit to the number who can register) and three performance, role play or speech event.  When you have selected the events you are interested in fill out the form below:

Click Here to Complete the Event Selection Process.

August 25, 2016 Management Functions

Do Now:  Respond to the following in your Google Classroom:

1. Define 3 key functions that a manager must perform.
2. Choose the one you believe is the most important and explain why.

Objective:  Students will discuss the functions of management and explore how effective managers perform them.   They will write a working definition of each of the five management functions using a note catcher and begin to collect observations of examples of each function as demonstrated by their teachers, parents, peers, and colleagues.

Classwork:

Using the Management Functions and Observations Worksheet  Work in your teams to define each of the five Management functions.  Before the next class, observe your teachers, parents, peers, and colleagues who demonstrate these functions.  Document what you observe and be prepared to share with the class when we meet next Monday.

Project:

Working in teams of students will begin to identify what they can do to manage the three projects that the JFK Business Association will be undertaking this year:

1. School Store
   1. Before school 7:00 – 7:2
   2. Lunch 10:40 – 11:15
   3. After school 2:35 – 3:00
2. Snack Cart at home sporting events fall and spring.
3. Weekend backpacks of food for students.

Homework:  Read LAP SM-003 Manage This! attached to the assignment in Google Classroom.  Answer the Total Recall Questions on pages 5 and 8  in a Google Doc attached to the assignment.  Be prepared to discuss in class on Monday.

August 24 & 25, 2016 Following Written Instructions, HSB CSI, Team Puzzles

Welcome Mr. Naughton to help with Arapahoe Community College Applications.

Objective #1: Students will complete a written online application for Concurrent Enrollment at Arapahoe Community College using the information on the forms they completed with their parents for homework. Students will investigate the FBLA competitive events using online resources to identify two or three events that they would like to compete in.

If you have already completed the ACC application, Explore the FBLA links on this web page to find two or three competitive events you would like to compete in.

Use the following codes to set up your Google Classroom

• Period 2    oqsn6l8
• Period 4     1whyai
• Period 7      gg0z5kb

Do Now:  Using Google Docs  answer and provide justification for your answer to the following questions  and turn in to Google Classroom

1. Why is it important to listen to, read and follow directions carefully?
2. What is the result when you don’t?
3. List three goals you would like to accomplish this semester in Principles of Business.

Objective: Students will build their abilities to think quickly and act decisively using organizational, planning, creativity and listening skills to solve problems as part of a team.  Students will write a reflection of the team activity to identify lessons learned and improvement opportunities for future team activities.

Introductions and Goal Sharing

Coffee Shop Team Activity

• Before the first round:
  • Listen to the instructions
  • Plan a strategy to meet the customer’s expectations
  • Organize your cards to optimize the productivity of your team’s process.
• After each round:
  • Evaluate how your team performed.
  • Decide if you want to make any process changes before the next round.

Write a reflection on the Coffee Shop Activity using Google Docs in Google Classroom

• What did you do to help your team improve?
• Did your team listen to you? How did this make you feel?
• What would you change about your participation on the team?
• What would you like the team to change about the way they work together?

Objective #2: Students will discover and appraise the value working collaboratively in teams to complete a written quiz and a visual puzzle in a specified period of time.  Students will document in writing their plan to complete the puzzle and justify any changes to the plan as they complete the activity.  Students will reflect, verbally and in writing, the lessons they learn from these activities.

Vocabulary:

• Collaboration
• Responsibility
• Active Listening
• Open Mindedness
• Problem Solving
• Reflecting
• Evaluating

August 23, 2016 Welcome Back

Welcome to Principles of Management.  As seniors in High School of Business you will be taking a leadership role in the JFK Business Association.  Your experience and knowledge of business from the High School of Business classes you have completed make you an important mentor for students starting in the program.

Log on to  Google Classroom and register to the class code   b612a6

Do Now:  Think back to Principles of Business.

1. Describe what it means to manage something?
2. The head coach of a baseball team is called a manager.  Why do you think this term is used instead of head coach?
3. What do you remember about the Management functions we discussed in the Business to the Rescue project?

August 23, 2016 Coffee Shop, Active Listening, Class Expectations

Welcome to High School of Business Principles of Business.  This is the first of six High School of Business classes that are offered to students at John F. Kennedy High School.  This class is eligible for concurrent enrollment with Arapahoe Community College (ACC).  Students who register for concurrent enrollment will earn 3 credits in Introduction to Business at ACC upon passing the class with a C or higher grade.

Review Class Expectations

Concurrent Enrollment Forms

Homework: Students received a parent letter of course expectations and an information sheet for college concurrent enrollment for Arapahoe Community College to take home, review, sign and return by August 26, 2016.  This is work 10 points!