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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. They consider their own goals and personality traits. They survey potential customers. They research on the Internet and in magazines. They carefully consider the options and chose a great idea for a business. However, since they are just learning, if one idea turns out no so good - they can easily switch to another, and much of their work is still valid. Once a business idea is chosen, the teenager starts that business, following all the legal channels - business name, sales tax, bank account, financial records, and so on. As soon as possible, they get out and sell something, anything. In the real world, we learn from what I term "Random-Chaotic Learning." When you obtain a new job, your first day on the job is confusing. Everything comes at you at once. There is no orderly flow of information. Your mind must grab at everything as it comes, trying to make sense of it all. At first, it is very confusing. However, it does not take that long before your brain turns that confusion into identifiable patterns that make sense. The human mind is good at grabbing from a flow of random and chaotic information and slowly making sense of it - WHEN a real-life situation demands it. And that is the key. The spiral, repetitive pattern developed for the caged, fictional world of the school classroom is never applied in real-world demanding situations. It is unending, insipid boredom. When a teenager starts a business, they must grab for knowledge and expertise in many different areas all at once. They must start with 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. And the reward is immediate and valuable. More than that, when the business is still within the semi-protected environment of "schooling," there are no downsides to encounter. Then, as the reality of dealing with customers and making products or providing services continues, the student learns bookkeeping and keeps accounts. Mathematics and measurement must meet the demands of the tax man. To sell on the Internet, well-written persuasive writing is essential. The student writes a business plan, not out of pie-in-the-sky theory, but out of the unfolding reality of a real, howbeit small, business. Business principles mean something because they are applied immediately. And inside of all this, the student is learning craft, working with their hands, making things of value, or serving the needs of others. Then the teenager goes on to developing a website, creating brochures, making a video presentation or photo shoot of their business endeavor. And all of that is just the beginning of weaving so many high school learning objectives into a real-life, valuable learning experience. Help your teen build his or her own business with Micro-Business for HighSchoolers, a nine month course that guides step-by-step in the creation of a real-world business, while learning a whole lot. This course could easily become a central part of your child's high school education. Check it out at http://www.YguideAcademy.com/MicroBusiness.html If you have any questions about applying business-based learning to your teenager's education, please contact us through http://www.YGuideAcademy.com We would be happy to help you to devise what will work for your own family. Copyright 2009 by YGuide Publishing. Freely use without changes, including links. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Daniel_Yordy
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