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**Standard 2** ** Teachers know how children grow. **  The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development.


 * Evidence 1 ****:** Student run school store


 * Rationale 1: ** The Wolverine Den, a student run business has become a great learning lab for our students. The employees are students currently enrolled in a class in the Business and Information Technology Department who are required to complete a minimum number of hours in the store. The management team consists of students that complete one or more Business and Information Technology Department classes and go through an interview process with the teachers in the department. Management team members will be responsible for the total operation of the store as well as being responsible for their own division of the store. The management team will consist of the store manager, merchandise manager, sales promotion manager, financial manager and Web Master. The Web Master has the responsibility to create and maintain the website, using a GoDaddy merchant account. Brining in the e-commerce part to the business has made it even more relevant to the current work world.

The use of the school store model presents a learning lab that the regular classroom cannot duplicate. Members of the management team develop leadership and interpersonal skills that will give them a unique work experience not available to most students. The students from the different classes will have a chance to put the theories presented in class into practice. Many of the younger students complete the first experience working for someone other than a family member. The thing that most students learn is how dependent all members of a business are on each other, by not showing up for your shift it affects everyone in the business.

The use of the Management Team will help students develop many skills that they will not get in a classroom setting. We can talk about how businesses are run, but when given the responsibly to run the business things take on a different level of maturity. Most students in the management team thrive on the challenge and except expectations.
 * KSD: **2.K.1 The teacher understands how learning occurs -- how students construct knowledge, acquire skills, and develop habits of mind – and how to use instructional strategies that promote student learning for a wide range of student abilities.

2.S.2 The teacher stimulates student reflection on prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas, making connections to students’ experiences, providing opportunities for active engagement, manipulation, and testing of ideas and material, and encouraging students to assume responsibility for shaping their learning tasks.

Students will learn to better and more effectively use and employ effective employer/employee communication, and appropriate customer relation responses in a selling situation through their encounters with real customers. They will experiment with real work experiences by providing other students, teachers, administrators, counselors, and staff at Waterford High School with a variety of needed/wanted items both school-related and for personal use, all of which are providing the student with job readiness skills

2.D.2 The teacher is disposed to use students’ strengths as a basis for growth, and their errors as an opportunity for learning

Students will apply performance indicators for accounting, financing, purchasing, selling, pricing, promotion, product and service planning, risk management, distribution, marketing-information management, and cashiering. They will apply individual critical thinking and group decision-making skills to a realistic business/marketing situation as well as effectively communicate and treat others with respect and decency.