BEP2O – LAUNCHING AND LEADING A BUSINESS – GRADE 10

Part of: Business Studies

This course introduces students to the world of business and what is required to be successful, ethical, and responsible in today’s economy. Students will develop the knowledge and skills needed to be an entrepreneur who knows how to respond to local and global market opportunities. Throughout the course, students will explore and understand the responsibility of managing different functions of a business. This includes accounting, marketing, information and communication technology, financial management, human resources, and production.

Vision: The vision of the business studies program in Grades 9 and 10 is for all students to acquire and develop the knowledge and skills related to entrepreneurship and business that will support them in innovating to address the needs and challenges of markets and communities, today and in the future. The program sparks students’ curiosity and interest in entrepreneurship and business and prepares them to apply their education to real-world economic, social, environmental, and ethical challenges and opportunities.

The Grade 10 course, Leading and Launching a Business, introduces students to the world of business and what is required to be successful, ethical, and responsible in today’s economy. Students will develop the knowledge and skills needed to be an entrepreneur who knows how to respond to local and global market opportunities. Throughout the course, students will explore and understand the responsibility of managing different functions of a business. This includes accounting, marketing, information and communication technology, financial management, human resources, and operations.

The design of the business studies program in Grades 9 and 10 will enable students to select courses that relate to their interests and that prepare them for further study or work in the field of their choosing. Business studies courses are well suited for inclusion in programs that lead to a secondary school diploma with a Specialist High-Skills Major. Whether students eventually work in business or simply use the services of business, the business studies program will provide them with a foundation for making wise choices and informed decisions.

Two sets of expectations – overall expectations and specific expectations – are listed for each strand, or broad area of the curriculum. The strands in these two courses are lettered A through C, and A through D, respectively. Taken together, the overall and specific expectations represent the mandated curriculum.

The overall expectations describe in general terms the knowledge and skills that students are expected to demonstrate by the end of each course. The specific expectations describe the expected knowledge and skills in greater detail. The specific expectations are organized under numbered subheadings, each of which indicates the strand and the overall expectation to which the group of specific expectations corresponds (e.g., “B2” indicates that the group relates to overall expectation 2 in Strand B)