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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)
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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)
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Business objectives (A-level Economics)
A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering Business objectives.
Lesson covers profit maximisation, revenue maximisation, sales volume maximisation, divorce of ownership from control.
PowerPoint
Starter task on business size
Worksheet to fill in
Homework/class task (depending on length of lesson)
Took my Y13s about 2 hours to complete all told.
Full shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
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AS-level Microeconomics bundle: Unit 1 (Edexcel) - chapters 1-10 (15 lessons + worksheets)
Bundle of 15 lessons covering the first 10 chapters of Edexcel AS-level Economics (Student book 1).
Each lesson includes a PowerPoint (plus worksheets/activities).
Lesson 1: Introduction to Microeconomics
Lesson 2: Scarcity
Lesson 3: Opportunity cost
Lesson 4: Factors of production
Lesson 5: Production possibility frontiers
Lesson 6: Specialisation & Division of labour
Lesson 7: Functions of money
Lesson 8: Types of economy
Lesson 9: Rational decision making
Lesson 10: Demand
Lesson 11: Price elasticity of demand (PED)
Lesson 12: Income elasticity of demand (YED)
Lesson 13: Cross elasticity of demand (XED)
Lesson 14: Supply & the supply curve
Lesson 15: Price elasticity of supply (PES)
Also includes:
1-hour assessment (with mark scheme)
Student reading diary
Graph practice worksheet
Essay planner template
Selection of multiple choice questions from recent past papers
Business strategy: SWOT, PEST, Porter's, Ansoff + more (A-level Business)
68-slide PowerPoint + worksheets and activities for teaching Business Strategy (Cambridge A-level Business). Covers all of the following from the syllabus:
– Blue ocean strategy
– Scenario planning
– SWOT analysis
– PEST analysis
– Porter’s five forces
– Core competence framework
– Ansoff matrix
– Force field analysis
– Decision trees
External economies & diseconomies of scale (A-level Economics)
A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on external economies & diseconomies of scale
Lesson covers: external sources of economies & diseconomies of scale, drawing SRAC and LRAC costs curves and the LRAC envelope.
Includes:
PowerPoint (with student tasks)
Starter task
Worksheet (with questions and graphs to complete)
Part 1 on internal economies & diseconomies of scale is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12588440
Full shop for more Economics, Business & Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
Delayering & organisation structure (A-level Business)
Part 2 of my A-level Business Studies lessons on Organisation Structure (Cambridge, Unit 2) - used with my Year 13 students.
Includes:
Starter task
Powerpoint (with various learner tasks throughout)
Practice questions
Lesson covers delayering (advantages and disadvantages of), growing a business’ formal structure and informal organisation structures.
Part one of this lesson can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12590907
4-lesson bundle for teaching earlier chapter on Further Human Resource Management (Unit 2, Cambridge) here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12582582
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
Internal economies & diseconomies of scale (A-level Economics)
A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on internal economies & diseconomies of scale
Lesson covers: internal sources of economies & diseconomies of scale (marketing; purchasing; financial; managerial; technical), drawing the LRAC curve and minimum efficient scale.
Includes:
PowerPoint (with student tasks throughout)
Starter task (short-run cost curves)
Worksheet (with questions, case studies and graphs to complete)
Homework question (with planning sheet)
Previous lesson on short-run cost curves is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12587168
Full shop for more Economics, Business & Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
4Ps: place and distribution methods: IGCSE Business
IGCSE Business Studies lesson on distribution methods (Cambridge, Unit 3) used with my Y11 students.
Lesson covers distribution methods (direct distribution; retail distribution; wholesale distribution and distribution through agents) and includes:
PowerPoint (with learning activities)
Worksheet
Practice questions
Previous lesson on price, pricing strategies & price elasticity of demand here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12597322
Full shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael
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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
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Strategic analysis & strategic choice bundle (7 lessons + worksheets)
A-level Business strategic analysis & strategic choice bundle (Unit 6, Cambridge).
L1: Introduction to strategic management
L2: SWOT & PEST
L3: Boston Matrix
L4: Porter’s Five Forces
L5: Ansoff Matrix
L6: Force-field analysis
L7: Decision trees
Worksheets and activities included with each lesson.
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
Trade unions (A-level Business)
2-hour A-level Business Studies lesson on Trade Unions (Cambridge, Unit 2) used with my Year 13 students.
Includes:
Starter task
Powerpoint (with various learner tasks throughout)
Practice questions
4-lesson bundle (£3) for teaching further human resource management (Unit 2, Cambridge): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12582582
Market segments: IGCSE Business
Quck (1 hour-ish) IGCSE Business Studies lesson on Market segments (Cambridge, Unit 3).
Includes:
Starter task
PowerPoint (with learning activities)
Card sort task (some cutting up required)
Practice questions
Students also have to guess which market segments might have been targeted during a Super Bowl advert break (and then watch a YouTube video to find out how many they guessed correctly)
Labour productivity, absenteeism (A-level Business)
1 hour A-level Business Studies lesson on labour productivity, absenteeism and employee performance (Cambridge, Unit 2) used with my Year 13 students.
Includes:
Starter task
Powerpoint (with various learner tasks throughout)
Practice questions
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
Types of leadership (AS-level Business)
AS-level Business Studies lesson on leadership styles (Cambridge, Unit 2) covering Autocratic, Democratic, Paternalistic and Laissez-faire used with my Year 12 students.
Includes:
Starter task (on Mintzberg so some previous knowledge required)
PowerPoint (with learning tasks throughout)
Practice questions / worksheet
Homework task
Took my Year 12s about 1.5 hours all told.
Previous lesson here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12579229
Introduction to strategic management (A-level Business)
A-level Business Studies lesson (Cambridge) on introduction to strategic management used with my Year 13s. Includes:
PowerPoint (with learner activities)
Starter on corporate strategy
Strategy versus tactics
Link between corporate strategy & business structure
Chandler’s multi-divisional structure (M-form)
Practice questions (with answers)
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
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
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
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