Sample Texas Teachers Lesson Plan

Name: Karissa Thomas

Subject: Business Management

Grades 10-12
Date Taught 1/7/2015

Date Turned In: 12/29/14

Objective(s): Introduction. Students recognize, evaluate, and prepare for a rapidly evolving global business environment
that requires flexibility and adaptability. Students analyze the primary functions of management and leadership, which
are planning, organizing, staffing, directing or leading, and controlling.
TEKS: (c) Knowledge and skills. (1) The student demonstrates an understanding of the management concept. The
student is expected to:
(A) define the term management;
(B) explain management functions, including planning, organizing, staffing, direct lending, and controlling;
(C) define the management pyramid;
(D) define the role of management;
(E) explain the history and evolution of management;
Materials:
Setting: The Classroom.
Focus Activity
Group Project
1. Group Presentation
2. Team Written
Assignment (3 pages
typed, Times Roman
12pt double spaced.
3. Visual Presentation of
Knowledge.

Connection to Prior
Learning
Recall a time when you had
to plan (breakfast, birthday
party, an event going to
the movies etc.) Determine
what role you had and what
people were involved in the
process and how everything
was interconnected.
Document the process in
your journal visually,
written. Put as much detail
as possible.

Objective Statement
By the end of this lesson
students will:
Work in cooperative
learning groups to put
together a collective
project that describes
the characteristics of
business.
Take a quiz to measure
the knowledge about
the topics studied.

Instructional Steps
Bellwork: Recall prior learning activity and document it in your
journal. (10 mins) In Journal students complete a KWL Chart on
Management Concept. (10 mins)
Break out into assigned group and discuss KWL chart put
together a group KWL chart. (20 mins)
For homework students should have gone to teachers blog
www.msthomasblog.com to listen to a short 7 minute
lecture on management terms. Students should be
prepared with vocabulary list for class. Terms:
Management, Management Pyramid, Role of Management.
Brief review of terms then students complete Ready
Quiz. (10 mins)

Purpose of Learning
For students to recognize,
evaluate, and prepare for
the business environment.
Students will analyze the
primary functions of
management and
leadership through active
learning.

Modifications/
Accommodations
ELL students will have an
opportunity to work with
their groups to complete the
project. They can learn at
their own pace since lecture
component is at home.
Provide an additional Q&A
sheet to demonstrate
knowledge.
Special Education turn in a
one dimensional assignment
within the group.

Reteach/Extension
Reteach breakdown
terms and concepts
into written
assignments, or visual
assignment is students
cannot grasp the
management
concepts.
Extension Students
can mirror themselves
against modern day
CEOs, or management
staff and present a
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Project guidelines: Create a company establish the

organizational chart. Determine the roles each member will
take on. And of the situation chosen determine the best course
of action the company should take and what steps are involved.

comparison between
their group final ideas
and the case study of
an actual company.

Situation 1: Your organization manufacture TVs. The company

has been around for 30 years. Profits have been slow. After a
business conference you decided that you want to expand
you decided you want to expand in Africa. How would your
management team execute this? Whats the rationale behind
your decision? Which counties will you go lunch in? What
products will fit that country? What does your organizational
structure look like? How are these decisions made?
Situation 2: You are a car company. You manufacture your cars
in Michigan State. What are the pros and cons of keeping your
manufacturing facility in Michigan in 2015? How has the
landscape changed? What is your management team
suggesting to increase profits? What does your organizational
structure look like?
Situation 3: You are a toy company. You manufacture toys
mostly in the USA. You recently started outsourcing your
manufacturing overseas to China. When products where
shipped back to the USA your quality controls team noticed that
some toys had high levels of led. You have to announce a recall.
What does your organizational structure look like? Which
department is responsible? How do you handle this situation?
How do you prevent this from happening in the future?
Students get into groups and begin portion of the group
assignment.
Help students outline Written Assignment explaining what their
case is. Who they are and what outcomes they have about their
situation. Students put together a visual poster or
PowerPoint to present their case. Management team accounts
for their roles and responsibility in the project.
Closure: Students were able to understand the roles of management, determine the organizational chart of
management and students can now apply that knowledge to future learning.
Review: Students began to identify concepts with management and they got to participate in management roles and
responsibilities.
Connect to future learning: Understand the chain of command when they get a job. And to prepare them for
understanding the roles individuals play in the design of a business.
Assessment of learning: Students will be given a cumulative exam. To assess understanding of terms and situational and
who makes what types of decisions in organizational systems.