This activity-based curriculum guides post-16 students through the process of starting a real business enterprise. As they progress through the business start-up activities and write business plans, students make real-world financial decisions and improve leadership, negotiation and communication skills.

The Practitioner's Guide provides supplemental activities for teaching courses up to 40 hours in duration. It also includes a glossary, research projects and an optional mentoring component appropriate for both in-school and after-school programmes.

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You’re the Boss Alignment:
The You’re the Boss classroom curriculum satisfies all nine elements of Work Related Learning. It is also mapped to Part A of the Key Skills and Wider Key Skills and allows schools the flexibility to offer a programme that teaches Enterprise Capability.

You're the Boss Teacher Training
1- or 2-Day Workshops Available

One of the main goals of post-16 education is to help young people learn marketable skills that will prepare them for future employment. In this fast-paced teacher training workshop, business ownership is offered as a hands-on, real-world method of helping students develop employable skills and enterprise capability.

Emphasis is placed on activities and teaching tools that help students discover their interests, talents and entrepreneurial abilities while learning practical business skills and developing an understanding of business operation. Whether students eventually start a business or seek employment, the financial and business skills they learn through this curriculum will provide them with numerous options for the future.

Participants will...
• Learn how to engage students in a hands-on, activity-based entrepreneurship and enterprise capability study that teaches the steps of a business start-up.
• Prepare to guide students as they identify feasible business ideas, do research, write business plans, create marketing materials, set up record-keeping systems and locate their first customers.
• Identify specific teaching tools and classroom activities for making their school’s entrepreneurship education programme exciting and successful.

Teachers who participate in this workshop receive the YoungBiz You’re the Boss Practitioner's Guide and Student's Guide. Upon completion of this teacher training workshop, teachers are certified to teach the YoungBiz You’re the Boss curriculum in their schools.

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