BDI3C COURSE OUTLINE

Course Title: Entrepreneurship: The Venture

Grade: 11

Ministry Course Code: BDI3C

Course Type: College Preparation

Credit Value: 1.00

Course Hours: 110

Department: Business Studies

Revision Date: N/A

Policy Document: Business Studies, The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12, 2006 (Revised) http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/business1112currb.pdf

Domestic Student Price: $550
International Student Price: $799

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs recognize opportunities, generate ideas, and organize resources to plan successful ventures that enable them to achieve their goals. Students will create a venture plan for a school-based or student-run business.Through hands-on experiences, students will have opportunities to develop the values, traits, and skills most often associated with successful entrepreneurs.

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS

Enterprising People and Entrepreneurs

By the end of this course, students will:

• analyse the characteristics and contributions of enterprising people;

• compare the characteristics and contributions of various entrepreneurs;

• assess their own entrepreneurial and enterprising potential.

Ideas and Opportunities for New Ventures

By the end of this course, students will:

• explain the importance of invention and innovation to venture creation;

• analyse various methods of generating ideas and identifying opportunities to satisfy needs and wants;

• generate realistic new ideas and identify possible opportunities for a school-based or student-run business;

• conduct primary and secondary marketing research to evaluate the idea or opportunity for their proposed venture.

The Benefits of a Venture Plan

By the end of this course, students will:

• assess the importance of having a venture plan;

• analyse the structure and content of a venture plan;

• explain how to evaluate and revise a venture plan.

Developing and Completing a Venture Plan for the Proposed Business

By the end of this course, students will:

• analyse the resources required to run their chosen venture;

• complete the components of an effective production plan for their chosen venture;

• complete the components of an effective marketing plan for their chosen venture;

• complete the components of an effective financial plan for their chosen venture;

• produce, using appropriate software, a venture plan for their chosen venture.

OUTLINE OF COURSE CONTENT

TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES

A variety of teaching and learning strategies are used to allow students many opportunities to attain the necessary skills for success in this course and in future studies. In all activities, consideration will be taken to ensure that individual students’ multiple intelligences and learning strengths are addressed through the use of varied and multiple activities in each lesson.

STRATEGIES FOR ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE

The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning. Assessment and evaluation is based on the Ministry of Education’s Growing Success policy document, which articulates the Ministry’s vision for how assessment and evaluation is practiced in Ontario schools.

Growing Success describes the three assessment types as follows:

Assessment as Learning: focuses on the explicit fostering of students’ capacity over time to be their own best assessors, but teachers need to start by presenting and modelling external, structured opportunities for students to assess themselves.
Assessment for Learning: the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go, and how best to get there.
Assessment of Learning: the assessment that becomes public and results in statements or symbols about how well students are learning.

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

EVALUATION SCHEME

A final grade (percentage mark) is calculated at the end of the course and reflects the quality of the student’s achievement of the overall expectations of the course, in accordance with the provincial curriculum.

The final grade will be determined as follows:

Seventy percent (70%) of the grade will be based on evaluation conducted throughout the course. This portion of the grade should reflect the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration should be given to more recent evidence of achievement.
Thirty percent (30%) of the grade will be based on a final evaluation administered at or towards the end of the course. This evaluation will be based on evidence from one or a combination of the following: an examination, a performance, an essay, and/or another method of evaluation suitable to the course content. The final evaluation allows the student an opportunity to demonstrate comprehensive achievement of the overall expectations for the course.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is a serious offense. It is defined as taking words, phrasing, sentence structure, or any other element of the expression of another person’s ideas, and using them as if they were your own. Plagiarism is a violation of another person’s rights, whether the material taken is great or small.Students will be assisted in developing strategies and techniques to avoid plagiarism. They need to be aware that plagiarized term work will be penalized and could result in a mark of zero.