10.58.505    BUSINESS EDUCATION

(1) The program requires that successful candidates:

(a) create, analyze, revise, and implement business education curricula that facilitates the learning of dynamic subject matter in diverse learning environments;

(b) build professional relationships with stakeholders to produce a relevant learning environment that reflects the real world and provides benefits to the student and the community, including development of career pathways and work-based learning experiences;

(c) demonstrate the development of personal and leadership competencies (e.g., citizenship, personal development, goal setting, and collaboration);

(d) demonstrate and apply ethical professional practice based on the principles and philosophy of business education and career and technical education through civic engagement, advocacy, and active participation in professional development and professional growth activities;

(e) integrate professional student organizations into the curriculum to provide an environment in which students grow professionally, personally, and socially; involve the business and professional community; and recognize the organization provides opportunities for personal growth and leadership development;

(f) identify methods for selection and application of technology tools relating to personal and business decision making;

(g) demonstrate and apply the use of current and emerging technologies used by business, industry, and education;

(h) demonstrate effective communication skills to facilitate learning, incorporate quality standards in all forms of communications, and recognize that culture impacts business communication;

(i) determine the nature and extent of the information needed, access needed information effectively and efficiently, and evaluate information and its sources critically;

(j) demonstrate ethical and social responsibility related to business and the legal framework for personal, business, and social interactions;

(k) identify careers and opportunities in business and related occupational fields;

(l) demonstrate the importance of employment communications to career success (e.g., resume, application letter, application forms and online application system, follow-up letter, electronic database employment search engines), interview techniques, and the skills needed to successfully obtain and maintain employment;

(m) assess student interests, aptitudes, personal qualities, and other information necessary for students to make informed career choices;

(n) demonstrate effective techniques for managing employees, personnel relations, and the budgeting of time and resources;

(o) apply marketing concepts and management fundamentals;

(p) organize, manage, and synthesize information to make wise business decisions;

(q) demonstrate techniques for business problem solving;

(r) apply interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills necessary to function in multicultural business and social settings;

(s) demonstrate an awareness of the interrelatedness of one countryꞌs political policies and economic practices on another including interactions with sovereign tribal nations and an understanding of the global business environment, including the interconnectedness of cultural, political, legal, economic, and ethical systems;

(t) demonstrate and apply principles of economics, free enterprise, and global economies;

(u) demonstrate and apply the basic concepts of personal finance skills, social and government responsibility, and business practices;

(v) demonstrate the role of entrepreneurship in economies and the process of starting and maintaining a business;

(w) demonstrate accounting procedures and use of accounting tools, strategies, and systems to maintain, monitor, control, and plan the use of financial resources;

(x) demonstrate the ability to use technology as a tool for facilitating business functions, coordinate information technology instruction in business education and across the curriculum, and explain the value of information technology and the potential impact it may have on studentsꞌ lives;

(y) develop studentsꞌ ability to analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and apply technologies to solve problems, increase productivity, and improve quality of life; and

(z) demonstrate the different functional areas of business as interrelated parts rather than distinct and separate entities.

History: 20-2-114, 20-2-121, MCA; IMP, 20-1-501, 20-2-121, MCA; NEW, 1979 MAR p. 492, Eff. 5/25/79; AMD, 1984 MAR p. 831, Eff. 5/18/84; AMD, 1989 MAR p. 397, Eff. 3/31/89; AMD, 1994 MAR p. 2722, Eff. 10/14/94; AMD, 1997 MAR p. 313, Eff. 2/11/97; AMD, 2000 MAR p. 2406, Eff. 9/8/00; AMD, 2007 MAR p. 190, Eff. 2/9/07; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 2936, Eff. 7/1/15.