1-hour AS-level Business Studies lesson on McGregor’s Theory X & Theory Y and Emotional Intelligence (Cambridge, Unit 2) used with my Year 12 students. Includes: Starter task PowerPoint (with learning tasks) Practice questions Link to relevant 12-min video Homework essay question Previous 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

A-level Business Studies lesson 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 hierarchical and matrix structures (advantages and disadvantages of), span of control, chain of command, delegation, and pros and cons of centralised and decentralised structures. Part two on delayering here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12592361 4-lesson bundle for teaching earlier chapter on Further Human Resource Management (Unit 2, Cambridge) here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12582582

AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering functions of the price mechanism, consumer surplus & producer surplus, used with my Year 12 students. Includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Question sheet Past paper practice question (with mark scheme) 7-lesson bundle covering chapters on consumer behaviour, demand, and supply can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12535155 8-lesson bundle for previous chapters (the economic problem; factors of production; functions of money; specialisation/division of labour; production possibility frontiers etc) is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890

A-level Business Studies lesson (Cambridge) on the Force-field analysis used with my Year 13s. Includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Starter on strategic analysis techniques Force-field analysis explained Force-field analysis example (IT project) Force-field analysis student task (with template) Practice questions 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 Porter’s Five Forces: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12621959 Ansoff Matrix: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12621967 More Business, Economics & Politics resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

A-level YED, PED, XED Microeconomics worksheet (with answers) Used with Year 12 for revision of Income Elasticity of Demand, Price Elasticity of Demand and Cross Elasticity of Demand. Took my students a full hour to complete

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

AS Politics lesson (Edexcel) on influence of the media. Full lesson includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Starter task (looking at newspaper support during previous UK elections) Links to list of UK politics documentaries Past paper essay question Essay planning template Previous lessons that may be of interest: Introduction to voter behaviour & the media): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12578155 ‘Typical’ party voters: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12578310 Understanding political data: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12580693 Ethnicity, gender & education: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12587224 Governing competence: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12591090 Party manifestos: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12591103 1979 UK general election: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12591105 Political advertising & single issue voting: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12591230 British politics in the 1980s & 1990s: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12600509 Tory sleaze: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/tory-sleaze-as-politics-12600514 Full shop for other Politics resources (as well as Economics and Business): https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on market structures (pure monopoly, oligopoly & concentration ratios) Includes: PowerPoint (with student tasks) Starter task Worksheet Essay writing template Full shop for more Economics, Business & Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

For previous lessons see: Payback period: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12796450 ARR: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12796575 Quick lesson on Net Present Value (NPV) used with my Year 13 Business students. Includes: Starter quiz suggestion Discounted payback (worked example and practice questions) NPV (worked example and practice questions) Answers Finance topic revision videos playlist

A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on Revenue & revenue curves. Lesson covers total revenue, average revenue, marginal revenue, revenue curves and relationship between revenue and price elasticity. PowerPoint Starter task Worksheet to fill in Homework/class task (depending on length of lesson) Took my Y13s about 1.5 hours to complete - but could be done in an hour (or stretched to 2) Full shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

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

A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on cost & revenue curves. Includes: PowerPoint (with student tasks) Starter task Practice questions Case study examples (explains to students how firms such as Tesla, Spotify, Ryanair and more are able to sustain losses) Essay question (with planner sheet) Full shop for more Economics, Business & Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

A-level Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) on Government intervention in labour markets (used with my Year 13s). Includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Starter task (on labour market failure) Methods of government intervention explained (minimum wage; maximum wage; regulation) with diagrams Video Practice past paper questions and mind map activity Ways to reduce geographic and occupational immobility of labour Full shop for more Economics, Business & Politics resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

A-level Business Studies lesson (Cambridge) on Boston Matrix used with my Year 13s. Includes: PowerPoint (with learner activities) Starter on SWOT and PEST Boston Matrix example Boston Matrix student task Strategic management glossary / worksheet Previous lesson on SWOT & PEST: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12621941 More Business, Economics & Politics resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/smith_michael

AS Microeconomics lesson (Edexcel) covering cross elasticity of demand (XED). Full 1-hour lesson includes: PowerPoint Activities Previous exam practice questions Worksheet (PED; YED; XED questions with answer sheet) 7-lesson bundle covering all chapters on consumer behaviour, demand, and supply can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12535155 8-lesson bundle for previous chapters (the economic problem; factors of production; functions of money; specialisation/division of labour; production possibility frontiers etc) is here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12528890

Used this at the end of the Microeconomics course to help Year 13s plan their exam essays (Edexcel). Challenges students to make mind maps for a variety of past paper 20 mark essay questions (Unit 3, Edexcel). 10 past paper questions to do overall.

Reading diary (with links to recommended books, websites, blogs, podcasts and interviews) for A-level Economics students. I update the Google doc each week with new material (so please comment with any recommendations that you have and I will add them in). I ask my students to read/listen to at least three pieces a week.

Links to the microeconomics quizzes that I make on Quizizz. Students play on their own laptops and compete against one another. This is a live document: every time I create a new quiz, I will add it to the list.