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Articles:
Business-Based Learning
Articles by Daniel Yordy
- Teenagers Doing Business - The Time is Now
There is no better time in life to start a business than as a teenager. A teenager is full of hope for the future. They want to prove that they can hold their own in a real world. Their minds are supple and strong, and they don't have the obligations that weigh adults down.
- The Home School - Learning Must Profit to Be Real
What are the two primary things that children learn in a typical modern classroom? Reading and Math? Or boredom and the unending statement that their labor is worth no more than the trash can? Is there a different way to approach teaching and learning?
- Business-Based Learning for Teenagers
In most schools, most of your work for all those years went right into the trash can. Would a stranger, walking in off the street, have paid you for the work you did because they wanted it for themselves? Business-based learning is different. Business is, first of all, a service. You are seeking to add value to the lives of others.
- Home Schooling Costs Money
Homeschooling costs money. Because of this dilemma, homeschool moms are constantly looking for ways to add to the family income part-time and on the side. But what if the education of teenagers were designed as it once was - to pay in large part for itself?
- Financial Security Plus a Real-World Education
The best time to start a business is as a teenager. In fact, entrepreneurship is the best way for today's youth to secure their future and learn what they need to know at the same time.
- Why Business-Based Learning?
A good education should include many larger life experiences (sailing a boat, attending a professional stage presentation, going on a mission trip to help the poor, etc.) that cost money. An education based in reality can help pay for the costs of these overlooked but essential activities.
- Business-Based Learning - What is It?
Business-based learning is taking the learning objectives of a high school or business college education and fitting those objectives into starting and running a real-world business. This concept does a number of things for the teenager. First, it fits learning into what is needed right now today. Second, it gives the teenager a deep sense of self-respect as he sees other people valuing his work, wanting it for themselves. Third, it provides the teenager with cash to pay for some of the larger elements of learning that make life meaningful.
- Business-Based Learning - How Does it Work?
With business-based learning, the teenager chooses a business that fits both what they themselves enjoy and what potential customers actually want to buy. When a teenager starts a business, they must grab for knowledge and expertise in many different areas all at once. They must learn good business principles, and what is the law, and receipts and balancing checkbooks, and marketing, and writing well, and brochure design, and presenting one's self to people - all at the same time. And they do all of this because the real-life needs of the moment demand it.
- Business-Based Learning: A 15-Year-Old Girl's Plan
What is one way that a highschool-aged homeschooler can fit learning around starting a business? How do I fit the interests of my fifteen-year-old daughter around a business-based program of learning? My daughter started a piano teaching business this summer. She already has 8 students and is making more per hour of actual work than many adults.
- Learning by Reality - Motivation and Self-Respect
An investment of one's self with a hope of return is the most powerful motivator we know. There is something about producing value that inspires us to reach for whatever learning we need to make it happen. We were created to create, to produce value with our hands. It's what gives us self-respect. If a child is creating things of value - things other people value, in their project-led or business-based learning - he or she will find a sense of motivation that comes out of joy and produces a deep sense of self-respect.
- Learning by Reality - Valuing Student Work
Imagine going to a hair dresser or barber and finding that they did a 95% job on your hair. 95% is done perfectly. 5% is messed up, shoddy work. Would you pay? Or let's say it was a 3/4 job, with 1/4 of your hairdo done completely wrong against 3/4 done mostly right. There would be some problems facing that hair cutter. They would soon be out of business. So why do we teach our children that a 95% job is great and a 76% job is okay?
- Learning by Reality - What is Value?
The labor that children engage in during all the years of their schooling is thrown in the trash because it is not valued by anyone. Look at what people put in their trash. That smelly mess has no value to the people who put it there. And it has no value to almost anyone else. How is it that all of a child's work in school is destined for that filthy garbage pile?
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