2024-2025 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.

Career and Technical Education conducts all activities and procedures without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, or disability. The responsibility to adhere to safety standards and best professional practices is the duty of the practitioners, teachers, students, and/or others who apply the contents of this document.

This blueprint has been reviewed by business and industry representatives for technical content and appropriateness for the industry.

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  • Standard/Obj #: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
  • Standard: 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.

BF10 Business Essentials

Course Type: Adapted




Standard/Obj #Standard/ObjectiveCourse WeightRBT Designation
1.00Understand ethics.8%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.01Understand the nature of ethics.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
1.02Understand the reasons for ethical dilemmas and how to recognize and respond to them.5%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.00Understand the business environment.26%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.01Understand the role of business in society.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.02Understand fundamental economic concepts.12%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.03Understand the types of economic systems.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.04Understand the role and impact of private enterprise and small business entrepreneurship.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
2.05Understand the risk factors that affect business profits.6%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.00Understand business management.14%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.01Understand the types of business activities.6%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.02Understand the concept of business management, human resource management, and information management.5%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
3.03Understand the concept of positive customer relations.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
4.00Understand business operations.19%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
4.01Understand the need and concept of accounting and finances in business.10%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
4.02Understand the nature of business operations.7%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
4.03Understand marketing and its importance in a global economy.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
5.00Understand business technology.16%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
5.01Understand the role of information systems.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
5.02Understand the principles of computer systems.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
5.03Understand the usage of basic office organization skills and usage of general office application software.8%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
5.04Understand the effects of technology on business.4%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.00Understand the job search process.17%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.01Understand workplace expectations and what employers are seeking.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.02Understand the rights of workers and general employment laws.3%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.03Understand the need to acquire self-development skills to enhance relationships and improve efficiency in the work environment.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.04Understand how to obtain a job through proper techniques.8%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand
6.05Understand the steps in the job advancement process.2%B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand