Business Enrichment Classes- what do y’all want?
I’m trying to think about what to teach this coming semester. Last fall I taught:
Small Business for MS/HS where the students learned business a tax concepts and created a fake small business with a business plan and their groups presented them at the end of the semester.
Fun w/finance for elementary where we learned about being wise with our money and budgeting.
Both classes were a lot of fun. The spring semester, I offered 2 MS/HS classes. Small business same as above and Business Operations where the students would have organized themselves as a nonprofit committ and created a product to actually produce and sell. I only had 2 people for each class sign up so I had to cancel.
For the next semester, what are our students (parents lol) wanting? More of the above? Bookkeeping? Accounting? Tax? I can do pretty much anything business, accounting related. I really believe that high schoolers these days ne to learn these skills even if it’s not the field they’re going to college for so I was aiming for the hands on practical learning last year but I can switch it up if there’s something different people want.
Also, my kids did a little virtual summer camp and one class had them make three lists: 1. interests/talents (whether or not they were “good” at it or knew how to do it) 2. Resources (physical stuff they owned or had access to and humans they knew that could teach them something) 3. Family interests/activities and ways the family spent time together Then challenged them to mesh the three listed into a way the kid could bring value to a family activity: For example: 1. a child who likes to cook in a family that likes to camp my create a list of menus and shopping lists for weekend camping trips. They may need to learn how to use canva and how to online grocery shop 2. A child that likes to sew in a family that has lots of kids in sports May sew busy books for the various children watching their sibling play. 3. A child in a “big” family who likes to draw May design and screen print shirts for playground days so mom has all the kids in one color shirt 4. A child with a neighbor who knows how to fix bikes, may ask the neighbor to teach them so that the child can clean up/time up the family bikes Anyway, would love it if my boys were mentored more in this process to actually mesh their lists and begin a “project”. It’s somewhat of a pre-“start a business”…where they have to have an idea and perhaps learn a new skill, but instead of marketing to “others” there is a more direct reward of bringing value to the family I hope I explained this well, let me know if you have questions or it doesn’t make sense. 😬🤣