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SHS 2 Business Management 1st Semester Week 1 Lesson Plan

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Weekly Learning Plan
Subject	Business Management	Week	1
Duration	60 minutes	Form	SHS 2
Strand	Managing Businesses and the Legal Framework of Businesses	Sub-Strand	Functional Areas of Management
Learning Outcome(s)	2.1.2.LO.1 - Demonstrate understanding and practical application of Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools within the curriculum sub-strand Functional Areas of Management.
Learning Indicator(s)	2.1.2.LI.1 - Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools
Lesson Focus	Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools
Previous Knowledge	Learners recall the immediately preceding knowledge/skill needed to engage with Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools; the starter diagnoses this rather than assuming mastery.
Lesson Objective(s)	Identify or explain the key subject idea/procedure in Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools. Complete the concrete guided/practical task for Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools accurately. Apply Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools independently to a new case, data set, text, material or performance situation.
Essential Question(s)	What evidence or procedure is needed to work accurately with Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools? What would a strong practical/application response to Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools look like? How would changing the context, data or constraints affect a decision about Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools?
Pedagogical Strategies	Diagnostic questioning Experiential/problem-based learning Collaborative analysis Guided modelling Independent application Peer/self assessment
Teaching & Learning Resources	Decision scenario cards Management-level chart Weighted decision matrix Calculator
Key Notes on Differentiation
Content	Provide a partially completed example, labelled materials or vocabulary support for learners who need scaffolding in Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools. Extend the task by adding a new constraint, less familiar case or requirement to compare alternatives in Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools.
Process	Use mixed-ability pairs for the first application, then require an individual transfer task. Allow oral/visual demonstration where appropriate while retaining the same subject accuracy criteria.
Product	Use a checklist/rubric tied to the concrete output for this week rather than participation alone. For advanced work, require justification with evidence, calculations, source reference or quality criteria.
Success Criteria	The learner uses correct subject terminology and evidence. The learner completes the week’s concrete product/calculation/performance with acceptable accuracy. The learner explains why the procedure/choice fits the stated context rather than giving a memorised general answer.
Homework	Observe a familiar school, shop or organisation and write a short example showing how Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools is or could be used.

Lesson Activities
Stage	Teacher Activity	Learner Activity	Assessment / DoK
Starter10 minutes	Present a short workplace case involving Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools; ask learners to identify the manager’s immediate decision and the evidence needed.	Inspect the prompt/materials, record an initial response about Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools, and justify it briefly.	Not provided.
Activity 115 minutes	Model the key components of Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools using the provided business documents, chart or case rather than definitions alone.	Classify decision cards as strategic, tactical or operational and match them to top, middle or lower management.	Check correct use of management terminology and evidence from the case.
Activity 220 minutes	Assign a realistic organisation case and require groups to apply Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools to produce a decision, flow, structure or management action.	Apply a weighted decision matrix to choose between three business options using cost, time, risk and customer impact.	Assess the group product for sequence, feasibility and justification.
Activity 310 minutes	Give an individual mini-case requiring one concrete output that demonstrates Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools.	Write the six-step decision process for a new scenario and identify where evidence is needed.	Check whether the individual output would work in the stated organisation.

Lesson Closure

Ask learners to name one specific mistake an organisation could make in Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools and the practical consequence of that mistake. Complete a one-minute exit response using a concrete example from the lesson on Decision-making: meaning, importance, types and tools.

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