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Igcse enterprise cambridge international examination
This document provides an introduction to the IGCSE Enterprise course. It outlines the learning objectives, which include understanding what enterprise means, defining entrepreneurs, and identifying enterprising skills. The aims of the course are to enable students to understand entrepreneurship, develop independently, and apply skills to enterprise issues globally. Students will study topics like starting a business, skills, opportunities, and more. Assessments include a project where students plan and implement their own enterprise to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.
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- 1. IGCSE Enterprise 0454 Introductionto IGCSE Enterprise Lesson 1 Prepared by: Bismark Adum-Kwapong
- 2. Learning objectives Introduction toIGCSE Enterprise Part 1: 1.Discuss topics to be studied in IGCESE enterprise. 2.Demonstrate understanding of assessment criteria. Part 2 3.Explain what is meant by enterprise. 4.Define who is an entrepreneur 5.Identify and explain what enterprises provide. 6.Explain what is meant by being enterprising - what are the 3 main skills of being enterprising? 7.Identify and explain the qualities and skills needed to become enterprising.
- 3. Aims of IGCSEEnterprise Cont. The aims describe the purposes of a course based on this syllabus. The aims are to enable students to: • Understand what it means to be enterprising, and the skills required to be enterprising • Develop the ability to work in an enterprising and independent way • Develop and apply knowledge, understanding and skills to contemporary enterprise issues in a range of local, national and global contexts appreciate the roles and perspectives of a range of other people and organisations involved in enterprise and the importance of ethical considerations
- 4. Aims of IGCSEEnterprise • Investigate the world of work and entrepreneurial organisations • Develop the ability to communicate effectively, in a variety of situations, using a range of appropriate techniques • Make effective use of relevant terms, concepts and methods when discussing enterprise and enterprising • behaviour.
- 5. What is IGCSEEnterprise? • What is enterprise? • Enterprise is a willingness by an individual or a business to take risks, show initiative and undertake new ventures. • An entrepreneur is a person who owns and runs their own business and takes risks. A serial Entrepreneur is someone who opens lots of businesses. • What do enterprises provide? • Enterprises provide goods and/or services. A good is a physical item (it is tangible) e.g. a car or a computer, whilst a service is a non- physical item (it is intangible) e.g. a haircut, a taxi ride. • Being Enterprising
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- 10. What content willstudents study As part of the course, learners develop their enterprise skills by planning and implementing their own enterprise project. This project will give learners the opportunity to gain practical experience of using the knowledge and skills outlined below.
- 11. What content willstudents study All learners will study the following topics: 1 Introduction to enterprise 2 Setting up a new enterprise 3 Enterprise skills 4 Enterprise opportunities, risk, legal obligations and ethical considerations 5 Negotiation 6 Finance 7 Business planning 8 Markets and customers 9 Help and support for enterprise 10 Communication.
- 12. What kind oftasks will students complete? All learners will complete the following tasks for their enterprise project in the coursework: Task 1 Choosing a suitable project, including a formal written report of approximately 1200 words. Task 2 Planning the project, including the following: Task 2a Planning to manage potential problems or issues in the action plan. Task 2b EITHER planning for financing the project OR planning marketing communications. Task 3 Using enterprise skills to implement the plan
- 13. What kind oftasks will students complete? Cont.. Task 4 Evaluating the project, including a formal written report of approximately 1500 words that evaluates: the planning and implementation of the project (compulsory) and one of the following: • the financial success of the project (optional) • the marketing communications used (optional) • the internal communications used (optional).
- 14. What is meantby enterprise? • Enterprise is a willingness by an individual or a business to take risks, show initiative and undertake new ventures.
- 15. Who is anentrepreneur? • An entrepreneur is a person who owns and runs their own business and takes risks. A serial Entrepreneur is someone who opens lots of businesses.
- 16. Being enterprising means(3 Enterprising skills) 3 main enterprise skills Risk taking Showing initiative Willingness to undertake new ventures
- 17. What are the3 main skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur? • Class discussion and activity 1. Risk - Being enterprising has some risk. So many things could go wrong: you could: lose money, fail, go bankrupt and/or face competition 2. Initiative - Initiative means making the first move and making things happen 3. Undertaking New Ventures - This is about looking for new ideas and gaps in the market. •
- 18. What skills andqualities should an entrepreneur possess or develop? • Class activity and discussion.
- 19. What do enterprisesprovide? Enterprises provide goods and/or services. A good is a physical item (it is tangible) e.g. a car or a computer, whilst a service is a non- physical item (it is intangible) e.g. a haircut, a taxi ride.
- 20. Who are stakeholdersof an enterprise • Discussion and class activity
- 21. Final Plenary 1. Whathave you learned in today's lesson? 2. What new things did you discover? 3. What was uniquely interesting in today's lesson? 4. Which part of the lesson did you fid it difficult to understand? 5. Did I explain things very well for you to understand? 6. What are your suggestions to help the teacher to improve lesson planning and teaching in our next lesson?
- 22. Reference Cambridge IGCSE Enterprisesyllabus (0454). For examination in June and November 2020, 2021 and 2022. Retrieved from http://www.cambridgeinternational.org/programmes- and-qualifications/cambridge-igcse-enterprise-0454/
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