Welcome to JA BizTown™ Teacher Training

1. Welcome to JA BizTown™Teacher Training

2. JA Capstone Programs • JA BizTown™ - Elementary Grades • JA Finance Park™ - Middle Grades • JA Job Shadow™ - Middle and High School

3. By the end of this training, you will understand: The purpose of JA BizTown. How to efficiently and effectively use the JA BizTown curriculum materials. The teacher responsibilities necessary for a successful JA BizTown student visit. The operation of the on-site JA BizTown simulation. Teacher Training Objectives

4. Why JA BizTown? • Align program content with JA Worldwide’s Pillars of Student Success: • Financial literacy • Entrepreneurship • Work-readiness • Enhance the role of technology in the elementary Capstone program • Highlight experiential learning techniques

5. JA BizTownStudent Goals Upon completion of the JA BizTown program, students will be able to: • Demonstrate a basic understanding of the free enterprise system. • Build money management skills through a practical knowledge of economic concepts and banking practices. • Develop an understanding of basic business practices and responsibilities. • Demonstrate the soft skills necessary for their successful participation in the world of work. • Discuss the roles they, as citizens, play in their community as workers and consumers, and relate these personal roles to the free enterprise system. • Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of nonprofit organizations in our communities. • Discuss the importance of citizen rights and responsibilities in a community.

6. JA BizTown Benefits To Educators The lessons, written by JA Worldwide, are easy to use. Minimal lesson preparation time is needed because of efficient activity organization throughout the Curriculum Guide. The program content has been aligned with national and statewide academic content standards in social studies (economics), mathematics, language arts, and career development. Enhanced Learning Opportunities, that allow teachers to provide optional, complementary activities to the core curriculum, are provided. The curriculum consists of fun, interactive, engaging content that gets students excited about learning.

7. JA BizTownProgram Components • Teacher training • Classroom instruction • Volunteer training • Student on-site visit • Post-visit activities-blog

8. JA BizTown Video

9. Why Experiential Learning? • Memorable • Authentic experience • Chance to apply classroom learning • Interactive: problem solving, team work • Adult involvement • Functions across content areas

10. Curriculum Basics • Four weeks: 45-minute, daily lessons • Week One: Introduction and Economic Basics • Week Two: Money Management and Job Preparation • Week Three: Job Preparation and Operating a Business • Week Four: Visit Preparation, Site-Visit, and Visit Follow-Up

11. Curriculum Components • Classroom Teaching Kit • Curriculum Guide • Citizen Guide • JA BizTown DVD

12. Classroom Kit • Circular Flow Wall Map • Economy Poster (double-sided) • Check-It-Out Poster (double-sided) • Activity and Game Cards • Banking Bingo Card Pads • JA BizTown DVD

13. Curriculum Guide Tab Sections Overview Getting Started Pretest/Posttest Unit 1: Community & Economy Unit 2: Financial Literacy Unit 3: Work-Readiness JA BizTown Jobs Unit 4: Business Management BizPrep Unit 5: After-Visit Debriefing Glossary Extended Learning Opportunities Visit Information Volunteer Information Miscellaneous

14. Other Curriculum Guide Features • Citizen Guide pages included • Answer keys • Transparencies • Resource Sheets • Unit Assessments

15. Citizen Guide • Classroom Activity Pages • Pretest/Posttest Answer Sheets • Citizen Alerts • Unit Assessments • BizConnects (family newsletters) • Practice Checkbook Materials • Glossary • Classified Ads • BizBriefs • Summer Camp Flyer

16. JA BizTown Curriculum Guide

17. Curriculum Guide Suggested Curriculum Timeline • Nineteen (19) pre-visit lessons • One (1) day on-site • Two (2) post-visit lessons • Twenty-two (22) total days

18. Curriculum Guide Teacher Checklist and Timeline 8 weeks 4-5 weeks 3 weeks 1 week 1-3 days On-site visit Follow Up Lessons

19. Lesson Layout • Lesson Description • Learning Objectives • Materials • Procedure • Check It Out! • Lesson Summary • Social Studies Connection • Additional Curriculum Connections • Unit Wrap-up

20. Unit 1: Community and Economy Description Objectives Materials Notes Procedure

21. Unit 1: Community and Economy New Vocabulary Definitions Notes

22. Unit 1: Community and Economy Lesson Summary Social Studies Connection Language Arts, Math Connections

23. Lesson 1: What Is a Community? • Pretest Answer Sheet • Citizen Guide • Curriculum Guide, Unit 1 Lesson1 • Actual Pretest • Curriculum Guide, Tab 3-Pretest and Posttest. (You will need to make copies of the test. It is not in the Citizen Guide.)

24. Lesson 1: What Is a Community? • Pretest Answer Sheet • Citizen Guide • Curriculum Guide, Unit 1 Lesson 1 • Curriculum Guide, Tab 3-Pretest and Posttest

25. Lesson 1: What Is a Community? Citizen Pledge Voter Registration

26. Open a JA BizTown Bank Account Bank account application

27. Check It Out Poster • Completing a Deposit Ticket • Endorsing a paycheck • Entering a transaction in a Checkbook Register

28. Double-Entry Accounting Resource Sheet 2-3 • Enter transactions on white lines. • Payments & deposits • Transaction column and balance column • Show math work in balance column. • Use + or - sign in balance column. • Only new balance is written on the grey line. • Math work is not done in head, but show all work,

29. Lesson 3: Check It Out Check It Out practices continuously at end of every lesson. • Practice Checkbook Materials at end of Citizen Guide. • Scenarios must be written on board as not given anywhere else. LOTS OF CHECKBOOK PRACTICE

30. JA BizTown Job Application Personal Information Education Hobbies Job Preference 3 choices

31. JA BizTown Paycheck Check Gross Pay Payroll Tax Net Pay Stub

32. Business Costs Sheet Salaries Operating Costs Total Business Costs

33. Lesson 3: Language Arts Connection Friendly Letters Letters should be written at school and may be mailed at JA BizTown. Addresses are found behind the Curriculum Guide, Visit Information Tab.

34. Citizen Checklist Final Business Team Preparation

35. JA BizTown™ On-site Visit

36. Facility Layout

37. Unit 5: Debriefing • What Did I Learn About Business? • What Did I Learn About Economics?

38. Sample Business Letter Option: Incorporate technology by having the students visit the JA BizTown blog http://jabiztowncharlotte.blogspot.com/ Where they can write/blog a letter as well as read other letters kids have blogged on the website.

39. Don’t forget... • Please either fax your JA BizTown Prep paperwork to 704-563-4864 or bring it in with you the day of your JA BizTown visit with the completely filled out JA BizPrep packets. • Remember to have the student citizens fill out their checkbooks to match the example in the prep packets that you received with the curriculum. • Please let your volunteers know that parking is not validated. Directions are located on our website here at www.jacarolinas.org in pdf form to print out an it includes the cost of area garages. • ALSO… We now have a Teacher e-Newsletter that goes out monthly to participating 4th grade teachers. If you have not received the e-Newsletter and would like to, email your request to hdoyle@jacarolinas.com .

40. Questions?