JA Company Program

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

Classroom Based OR After School

PROGRAM DURATION

36 weeks

PROGRAM GRADE LEVEL

High School

JA Company Program encompasses business, economics, and entrepreneurship curriculum for students in high school. The program emphasizes business content, while providing a strong focus on mathematics, reading, and writing skills. The JA Company Program experience enhances students’ classroom curriculum. Students are encouraged to use innovative thinking to learn business skills that support positive attitudes as they explore and enhance their career aspirations.

Through a variety of hands-on activities and technological supplements designed to support varied learning styles, students develop a better understanding of the relationship between what they learn at school and their successful participation in a worldwide economy.

PROGRAM CONCEPTS

Business, choices, competition, division of labor, entrepreneurship, expenses, fixed costs, goods, incentive, income, liquidation, management, marketing, parliamentary procedure, price, productivity, profit, production, research and development, services, stock, variable costs.

PROGRAM SKILLS

Assembling products, consensus-building, critical thinking, estimating, filling out forms, interpreting data, math computation, negotiating, presenting reports, problem-solving, public speaking, research, selling, teamwork.