2025-2026 Course Standards

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Essential standards (highlighted in green below) are big, powerful ideas that are necessary and essential for students to know to be successful in a course. Essential standards identify the appropriate verb and cognitive process intended for the student to accomplish. Essential standards provide value throughout a student's career, in other courses, and translate to the next level of education or world of work.

Objectives/Indicators (rows not highlighted in green below) provide another level of detail for each Essential Standard.

Adapted or Adopted Course includes essential standards and, in many cases, specific objectives/indicators aligned with business and industry standards and/or criteria for credentials or certifications. The course standards are designed using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). If the POL is a CTE State Assessment, the course is written at the level of the ESSENTIAL STANDARD and assesses the intended outcome of the sum of its objectives/indicators.

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Standard/Obj Number: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
Standard/Objective: Essential standard and specific objective/indicator statements per essential standard. Each essential standard statement or specific objective/indicator begins with an action verb and makes a complete sentence when combined with The learner will be able to... Outcome behavior in each essential standard or objective/indicator statement is denoted by the verb plus its object.
Course Weight: Shows the relative importance of each essential standard or objective/indicator. Course weight is used to help determine the percentage of total class time that is spent on each objective/indicator.
RBT Designation: Classification of outcome behavior in essential standards and indicator statements in Dimensions according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy:
Cognitive Process Dimension: 1 Remember, 2 Understand, 3 Apply, 4 Analyze, 5 Evaluate, 6 Create.
Knowledge Dimension: A Factual Knowledge, B Conceptual Knowledge, C Procedural Knowledge.

ME12 Entrepreneurship II

Course Type: Adapted

Standard/Obj Number	Standard/Objective	Course Weight	RBT Designation
1.00	Understand business planning, business ethics, and resources.	20%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.01	Explain the nature of business plans.	5%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.02	Understand how to develop an organizational plan for human resources.	5%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.03	Explain the use of business ethics in entrepreneurship.	5%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.04	Summarize the external resources useful to entrepreneurs during concept development.	5%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.00	Understand costs and risks of starting up and running a business.	15%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.01	Explain start-up requirements for a business.	3%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.02	Explain how to determine cost of product using breakeven, ROI, and markup.	3%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.03	Understand how to calculate the break-even point.	3%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.04	Explain the nature of risk management.	6%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.00	Understand how financial procedures track money flow and determine financial status.	15%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.01	Explain the nature of overhead/operating costs.	3%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.02	Summarize the nature of income statements.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.03	Summarize the nature of cash flow statements.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.04	Summarize the nature of balance sheets.	4%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
4.00	Apply the marketing mix to an entrepreneurial venture.	20%	B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
4.01	Plan the product and service mix for a business.	5%	B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
4.02	Identify approproate channels of distribution for a business.	5%	B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
4.03	Develop a promotional plan for a business.	5%	B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
4.04	Calculate prices for products and service prices.	5%	B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
5.00	Apply knowledge to develop a business plan.	30%	B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
5.01	Conduct an organizational SWOT analysis.	10%	B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
5.02	Implement an action plan.	10%	B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply
5.03	Implement a business plan.	10%	B3 Conceptual Knowledge - Apply