About the Program
The Business Education Program contributes to the development in
students knowledge, skills, and attributes along with an awareness of
how their community, including business and industry, works. Young
people need to be 'opportunity ready' with professional preparation. The
hands-on learning approach is directed towards developing in young
people those skills, competencies, understandings, and attributes which
equip them to be innovative, and to identify, create, initiate, and
successfully manage personal, community, business, and work
opportunities, including working for themselves.
Business
Education encourages the development of skills and attributes that
employers are looking for, such as teamwork, commitment, and
flexibility. It also helps to develop in students a realistic knowledge
and understanding of business, finances, and working life. This cluster
of programs focuses on broad, transferable skills and stresses the
understanding and demonstration of the following elements of the
business industry: planning, management, finance, technical and
production skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues,
and health, safety and environmental issues.
Business courses include: Personal Finance, Marketing and Retail Management (including practical experiences working in the School Store), Banking (including summer training and practical experience working in the CRLS branch of the East Cambridge Savings Bank), and Entrepeneurship/Business.
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