Class Activities
A movement game where students step forward if a statement applies to them.
What is step to the middle or line?
This skill is demonstrated when you stay productive and calm even when a "Chaos Card" changes your plan.
What is Adaptability?
The acronym for school programs like Business, Engineering, Coding, and FACS is CTE, which stands for this.
What is Career Technical Education
A person who takes the financial and professional risk of starting and managing a business.
Who is an Entrepreneur?
The management function of setting goals and deciding the best way to achieve them.
What is Planning?
A review game where students shoot paper balls into the recycle bin.
What is trashketball?
Effectively sharing ideas through speaking, writing, or listening with your teammates.
What is Communication?
National organizations for students in CTE pathways, such as FBLA, DECA, and SkillsUSA use the acronym CTSOs, which stands for this.
What is Career Technical Student Organizations
Physical, tangible items that can be seen and touched, such as a phone or a desk.
What are Goods?
Finding, hiring, and placing the right people in the right jobs for the company.
What is Staffing?
An exercise where students focus on finding numbers in order on a grid.
What is the Concentration Grid Exercise?
Working effectively with a team to reach a common goal, like finishing the Budget Fix activity.
What is Collaboration?
The official national motto for Career Technical Education:
What is Learning that works for America?
The Customer buys the product, but this person is the one who actually uses it.
Who is the Consumer?
Creating a plan for how money will be spent and saved.
What is budgeting?
An interactive platform that helps the class learn together using Draw-it, quiz, video, and poll questions
What is Nearpod?
The North Carolina organization that created the "Portrait" to highlight life-long success skills.
What is NCDPI?
The specific CTSO that focuses on future business leaders is FBLA, which stands for this.
What is Future Business Leaders of America?
A large business owned by many stockholders and treated as a single legal entity.
What is a Corporation?
The department that handles employee pay, benefits, hiring, and safety.
What is Human Resources?
These were used during our group work on management to disrupt the groups, and provide real-world examples of what happens in the world of work.
What are chaos cards?
Skills like empathy and critical thinking that stay useful for your entire life, regardless of your career.
What are Durable Skills?
The activity where students travel to prove their skills against other schools in specific career areas.
What are Competitive Events?
Paying a fee to use a famous brand's name and business model, such as Bojangles, McDonald's, and Taco Bell.
What is a franchise?
Using data like age, income, and location to understand and target your customers.
What are Demographics?