10 WEEKS - For Our Life Skills Students
Adaptive Business is a course designed to teach our Life Skills students some important business concepts that will help them as they navigate through life.
Topics taught include:
Career Preparation
Career research
Job interview skills
Job applications
How to dress for a job
Office/Job Skills and Procedures
Telephone skills
Workplace professionalism
Workplace safety
Eye contact and conversation with co-workers
Consumer Skills
Practice counting money
Taste testing generic vs name brand products
Unit Pricing
Dangers of Social Media
Planning and Shopping for a Meal
Protecting yourself from Identity Theft
Computer Skills
Fluency with Google Classroom
Learning to Type with Speed and Accuracy
Creating a Personal Website using Google Sites
Designing a Spreadsheet and making graphs with Google Sheets
Developing a Marketing Plan for items sold through their classrooms