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Former teacher of Economics, Politics & Business Studies in Madrid, Spain (journalist at The Times, Sunday Times & MoneySavingExpert.com in a previous life)
Business and finance
Cash flow & cash flow forecast: IGCSE Business
IGCSE Business Studies lesson on cash flow & cash flow forecasts (Unit 5, Cambridge) used with my Year 11 students. Includes:
PowerPoint (with student activities)
Practice cash flow forecast activity (with answers)
Questions about cash flow & cash flow forecasts
Related resources:
8-lesson section 6 bundle here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395
Economies & diseconomies of scale: IGCSE Business
IGCSE Business Studies lesson on Economies & diseconomies of scale (Unit 4, Cambridge) used with my Year 11 students.
Related resources:
Previous lesson on Costs & break-even: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12604362
8-lesson section 6 bundle here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395
Sources of finance: IGCSE Business
IGCSE Business Studies lesson on Sources of finance (Unit 5, Cambridge) used with my Year 11 students (PowerPoint & student work booklet).
Related resources:
8-lesson section 6 bundle here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395
Porter's Five Forces (A-level Business)
A-level Business Studies lesson (Cambridge) on Porter’s Five Forces used with my Year 13s. Includes:
PowerPoint (with learner activities)
Starter on strategic analysis techniques
Porter’s Five Forces explained
Porter’s Five Forces detailed example (McDonald’s)
Porter’s Five Forces student task
Strategic management glossary / worksheet
Previous lessons:
SWOT & PEST: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12621941
Boston Matrix: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12621952
More Business, Economics & Politics resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
Income statements: IGCSE Business
IGCSE Business Studies lesson on income statements (Unit 5, Cambridge) used with my Year 11 students. Includes:
PowerPoint (with student activities & practice questions)
Practice income statement
Link to revision video
Related resources:
8-lesson section 6 bundle here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395
Ethical issues (consumer boycott poster): IGCSE Business
Lesson 6 covering Cambridge IGCSE Business Studies (Section 6): External influences on business activity - environmental and ethical issues.
PowerPoint looks at ethical issues (child labour; bribery; collusion) and asks students to think about what businesses have to gain from being ethical (and what damage might be done from being unethical).
Students are then challenged to produce a ‘consumer boycott’ poster based on an unethical practice of their choosing.
Worksheet with key terms table to fill in, questions to answer and poster instructions/ideas also attached.
8-lesson bundle (£4) here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395
Mintzberg & intro to management (AS-level Business)
AS-level Business Studies lesson introducing Management & Leadership and Henry Mintzberg (Cambridge, Unit 2) used with my Year 12 students.
Includes:
Starter task
PowerPoint
Card sort task (some cutting up involved)
Practice questions / worksheet
Bundle
AS-level Microeconomics bundle: Unit 1 (Edexcel) - chapters 11-20 (8 lessons + worksheets)
Bundle of eight lessons covering chapters 11-20 of Edexcel AS-level Economics (Student book 1).
Each lesson includes a PowerPoint (plus worksheets/activities).
Lesson 1: Market equilibrium
Lesson 2: Functions of the price mechanism
Lesson 3: Law of diminishing marginal utility
Lesson 4: Indirect taxes and subsidies
Lesson 5: Market failure (moral hazard; information gaps; under-provision of public goods etc.)
Lesson 6: Externalities
Lesson 7: Government intervention
Lesson 8: Government failure
Also includes:
Diagram practice (max & min prices and more)
Links to whole class quizzes
Selection of multiple choice questions from recent past papers
Mind maps for planning 20-mark essay questions
Essay planning template
Economics reading diary
Privatisation & nationalisation (A-level Business)
Privatisation versus Nationalisation A-level Business Studies (Cambridge) lesson used with my Year 13s. Includes:
-Starter quiz (refresh from some previous topics)
-Link to video on privatisation and nationalisation
-Debate task (privatise the NHS?)
-Homework: TEDTalk video review (with worksheet)
Other lessons from this unit:
Business strategy pack (SWOT, PEST, Porter’s etc): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12742325
Corporate culture: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12650698
Labour productivity and absenteeism: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12580712
Determination of wage rates (A-level Economics)
A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on determination of wage rates used with my Y13 students. Includes:
PowerPoint (with learner activities)
Starter (quick refresh on some previous Y13 content)
Explanations of perfectly competitive labour markets and non-competitive labour markets
Practice questions
Diagram explanations & practice
Full shop for more Economics, Business & Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
Herzberg, Vroom & McClelland on motivation (AS-level Business)
AS-level Business Studies lesson on Motivation (Herzberg, Vroom & McClelland) used with my Year 12 students (Cambridge, Unit 2).
Includes:
Starter task (on Taylor, Mayo, Maslow)
PowerPoint (with learning tasks)
Practice questions
Worksheet
Link to relevant short video
Previous lesson on Taylor, Mayo and Maslow is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12585435
Business communication (A-level Business)
A-level Business Studies lesson on Business communication (Cambridge, Unit 2) used with my Year 13 students.
Includes:
Starter task
Powerpoint (with various learner tasks throughout)
Practice questions
20-mark essay question
4-lesson bundle (£3) for teaching previous chapter on further human resource management (Unit 2, Cambridge): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12582582
Bundle
A-level Business Studies: Further Human Resource Management (4 lessons + worksheets)
Bundle of 4 A-level Business Studies lessons covering Further Human Resource Management (Cambridge, Unit 2, Chapter 13) used with my Year 13 students
Each lesson includes a PowerPoint (plus worksheets/activities)
Lesson 1: Hard & soft HRM (2 hours)
Lesson 2: Labour productivity, absenteeism (1 hour)
Lesson 3: Labour laws & workforce planning (1 hour)
Lesson 4: Trade unions (2 hours)
Buying the bundle saves 50% on buying individually
Full shop for more Business, Economics and Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
Labour laws & workplace planning (A-level Business)
1 hour A-level Business Studies lesson on labour laws and workplace planning (Cambridge, Unit 2) used with my Year 13 students.
Includes:
Starter task
Powerpoint (with various learner tasks throughout)
Practice exam question (with insert and mark scheme)
4-lesson bundle (£3) for teaching further human resource management (Unit 2, Cambridge): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12582582
Full shop for other Business resources (as well as Economics and Politics): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
Maslow, Mayo & Taylor on motivation (AS-level Business)
1-hour AS-level Business Studies lesson on Motivation (Maslow, Mayo & Taylor) used with my Year 12 students (Cambridge, Unit 2).
Includes:
Starter task (on Goleman, McGregor, Mintzberg)
PowerPoint (with learning tasks)
Practice questions
Link to relevant 7-min Ted Talk
Previous lesson on Theory X & Theory Y and emotional intelligence is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12583931
Earlier lesson on leadership styles (autocratic, democratic etc) here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12579237
Earlier lesson on Mintzberg here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12579229
Market research: IGCSE Business
IGCSE Business Studies lesson on Market research (Cambridge, Unit 3).
Includes:
Starter task
PowerPoint (with various and varied learning activities throughout)
Practice questions
Lesson covers primary and secondary research, quantitative and qualitative data etc. and filled a full 2-hour lesson with my Year 11s.
Full shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
Direct & Indirect tax: A-level Economics worksheet
Direct and indirect tax worksheet for Y13 Macroeconomics - used to see how well students had understood the topics of tax and public spending (Chapters 34 & 35 in Edexcel Economics Student Book 2).
Students are required to:
Define direct & indirect taxes
Graphically illustrate the effect of progressive & regressive taxes
Discuss implications of cutting public spending during challenging economic times
Select - and justify - a set of tax rises that the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak could make to pay for the COVID-19 pandemic
SWOT & PEST (A-level Business)
A-level Business Studies lesson (Cambridge) on SWOT analysis & PEST analysis used with my Year 13s. Includes:
PowerPoint (with learner activities)
Starter on corporate strategy and Chandler’s M-form
SWOT template & activity on Ford motor company
PEST template and questions
Previous lesson ‘Introduction to strategic management’: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12621935
More Business, Economics & Politics resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
Costs & break-even: IGCSE Business
IGCSE Business Studies lesson on costs & break-even (Unit 4, Cambridge) used with my Year 11 students. Includes:
PowerPoint (with learner activities)
Worksheet (students need to fill in key words, answer questions, complete tables and engage in break-even graph practice etc)
Related resources:
8-lesson section 6 bundle here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528395
75-slide marketing mega PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12598254
Hard & soft HRM (A-level Business)
2-hour Business Studies lesson on Hard and Soft Human Resource Management (Cambridge, Unit 2) used with my Year 13 students.
Includes:
Starter task
Three learning activities during the PowerPoint
Case study (with 12-mark question)
Application task at the end of the presentation
Students learn about the role of HR, differences between hard & soft HRM, the different types of contracts (zero hours, temporary etc.), the advantages/disadvantages to the business and worker of these contracts.
4-lesson bundle (£3) for teaching further human resource management (Unit 2, Cambridge): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12582582