Junior Cycle Business Studies
Personal Finance
Personal finance focuses on students developing a set of skills, knowledge and values that allows them to make informed decisions to effectively and responsibly manage their financial resources.
Enterprise
Enterprise encourages students to identify opportunities and turn them into practical and targeted activities within business and wider society through the development and application of their understanding, skills and values. It develops students’ basic understanding of the financial, marketing and operational functions of an organisation.
Our Economy
Our economy enables students to understand the dynamic relationship between the local, national and international economic situation. It develops students’ ability to identify and understand basic economic concepts as they relate to personal finance, enterprise and the Irish economy. While the learning outcomes associated with each strand are set out separately in this specification, this should not be taken to imply that the strands are to be studied in isolation. The students’ engagement and learning are optimised by a fully integrated experience of Personal finance, Enterprise and Our economy. To give further emphasis to the integrated nature of learning, the outcomes for each strand are grouped by reference to three elements: • Managing my resources • Exploring business • Using skills for business. These elements describe a three-fold focus for learning in the business classroom. Each element particularly focuses on the goals of the learning process, that is, the acquisition of new knowledge, skills and values. As the students progress through each of the strands, there will be a systematic development of their fundamental knowledge, their principles and values, and key skills through each of the elements.
- This new specification for Junior Cycle Business Studies covers teaching, learning and assessment in business studies for the first, second and third years in post-primary school.
- The specification focuses on improving students' understanding of the business environment and on developing skills for life, work and further study through the three inter-connected strands: Personal Finance , Enterprise and Our Economy.
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Personal Finance
Personal finance focuses on students developing a set of skills, knowledge and values that allows them to make informed decisions to effectively and responsibly manage their financial resources.
Enterprise
Enterprise encourages students to identify opportunities and turn them into practical and targeted activities within business and wider society through the development and application of their understanding, skills and values. It develops students’ basic understanding of the financial, marketing and operational functions of an organisation.
Our Economy
Our economy enables students to understand the dynamic relationship between the local, national and international economic situation. It develops students’ ability to identify and understand basic economic concepts as they relate to personal finance, enterprise and the Irish economy. While the learning outcomes associated with each strand are set out separately in this specification, this should not be taken to imply that the strands are to be studied in isolation. The students’ engagement and learning are optimised by a fully integrated experience of Personal finance, Enterprise and Our economy. To give further emphasis to the integrated nature of learning, the outcomes for each strand are grouped by reference to three elements: • Managing my resources • Exploring business • Using skills for business. These elements describe a three-fold focus for learning in the business classroom. Each element particularly focuses on the goals of the learning process, that is, the acquisition of new knowledge, skills and values. As the students progress through each of the strands, there will be a systematic development of their fundamental knowledge, their principles and values, and key skills through each of the elements.
Junior Certificate Business Studies Awards 2019
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(Back Row L to R: Professor John McHale (Dean of the College of Business), Margaret McDonnell (National President Business Studies Teachers Association, Joanna Clancy (Business School NUIG), Martina Hayes (Business Teacher PCS), Mr. Tom Acton (Head of School of Business & Economics)
Front L to R: Stephen Donelan & Niamh Mahoney) |