Lesson Artifact Sheet

Grade Level 9-12 Subject Business Education Date March 6, 2012 Concept or Topic Name Allison Hood :Functions of Management - Evaluating School Burke County High School Instructional Goal or Goals:
Students will understand the importance of evaluating corporations and will relate this back to the importance of the evaluating function of management.

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Attach directions or an assignment that engages students in learning about the concept or topic cited above. Examples are a worksheet, homework or class assignment, project guidelines, or a problem.

Corporate Social Responsibility Project

Description: Student will research a major retailer to determine the companys
support/sponsorship or involvement in social/charitable concerns. Take notes. You will use your findings to complete a graphic organizer with your elbow partner. Research a major retailer to determine corporate support/sponsorship or involvement with social/charitable concerns. The intent of this project is to develop within students an awareness of corporate social responsibility and/or activity. Utilizing this project would hopefully translate into increased student interest in volunteerism.

Your collected information should include the following: What is the retailers mission statement and/or philosophy/vision? What local community activities/charities/etc. does the retailer support? o Why do they support? 1. Is this a corporate initiative? 2. Is this an employee initiative? o What type of support? 1. Financial (donations, sponsorships, scholarships, etc.) 2. In-kind contributions (use of facilities, help with publicity, manpower) What national activities/charities/etc. does the retailer support? o Why do they support? 1. Is this emphasized also at the local level? 2. Are all employees involved? o What type of support? 1. Financial (donations, sponsorships, scholarships, etc.) 2. Promotion (advertising, publicity, sales promotion, etc.) 3. Other Does there appear to be a major emphasis in one area? (Environment, education, sports, children, medical/health, social/public welfare issues, etc.) How accessible was this information?

2. Provide three samples of student work on this assignment. They should reflect the full range of student ability in your class and include feedback you provided to the students on their papers

Good Job. Please draw or complete a graphic organizer in the future. No clipart

Good work. You have a clear understanding of corporate responsibility.

Please use correct grammar and complete sentences. Please draw or write instead of copying and pasting images from the Internet.

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Write a brief commentary about the assignment, answering the following questions: What is the context of the assignment in terms of students prior knowledge and the other topics they have been studying? The students participated the previous day in brainstorming terms related to what it means to be a manager. We put the work on the board and then each group (4 groups) represented one of the four functions of management. They also had to take the key terms and put them under the function of management that represented that term. We have been studying the different functions and today we pulled evaluating to discuss. In order to understand what it means to evaluate, they had to evaluate a website.

What do the samples of student work tell you about the students level of understanding? They were quickly able to analyze website and focus on mission statements and sustainability.

How does the assignment help students develop their understanding? It stated exactly what they should look for when evaluating something. What do you plan to do next with these students? The students will create concept maps discussing the four functions of management.