Lesson Plan Assure Model

Lesson Plan Assure Model

Lesson Plan Assure Model

Subject:          Principles of Business

Topic:             Organization Chart

Subtopic:         Introduction to Organization Chart

Grade:                        10

Age Group:    15-16 year

Time:            15 minutes

Date:              April 7, 2014

Analyze Learners

The lesson plan is prepare for student at the grade 10 level. The class population is consists of 20 students. Principles of Business is one of the prefer subject by students.  They always pay keen attention to this subject and they are eager to learn. Student tends to have varied learning styles in the classroom such as visual and auditory. Some students prefer view video and images meanwhile some students learn best when they hear information. Therefore we plan the lesson plan to meet each students needs.

Entry competencies

Students will:  

Become aware of The Organization Chart.

Learning Styles

Student tends to have varied learning styles in the classroom such as visual and auditory. In order to ensure that each student actually learns, we cater for everyone.

Objectives:

Students should be able to:

1.1  Accurately define what an Organizational Chart is after the introductory activity.

1.2  Clearly explain the rules of drawing an Organizational Chart after discussion.

1.3  Accurately draw an Organizational Chart after class discussion.

1.4  Correctly assess the importance of The Organizational Chart after class discussion.

Selected Media, Materials and Methods

Projector: The teacher will use the projector to allow the students to view PowerPoint presentation.

Computer: A computer will be used to run slides on the overhead projector.

Digital Storytelling: the teacher will use this to give an overview of an Organizational Chart

Speakers: With the aid of speakers the students will be able to hear the clip clearly. The speakers will enhance their learning experience

Marker: This will be used to write on the whiteboard.

Whiteboard: to record students and demonstration.

Ruler: This will be used to make partitions on the whiteboard and draw straight lines.

Text book:  This will be used as the teacher’s reference: Principles of Business text, by: Karlene Robinson and Sybile Hamil, Unit 2 (page 52-53).    

Major Concepts

Organization: An organization is a social entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

Organizational Structure: is a design of an organization, which indicates formal, planned relationships between its personnel and the function they perform in relation to each other.

Organization chart: is used to display, visually, the structure of a formal organization.

Authority: is the right or power to command.

Responsibility: is the obligation to perform a task efficiently, or to see to it that a task is performed efficiently.

Content Summary

Organizational Chart is used to display, visually, the structure of a formal organization.

Every business whether large or small, has an Organizational Chart. This should be appropriately displayed within the organization; it is the duty of all employees to know the organization chart since it serves a number of functions in a business such as: demonstrating the distribution of power to concerned stake holders and established clear line of authority in the company.

Rules for drawing organization chart

v  Charts must show different levels of authority and different position of work within organizations.

v  The person or individual having the highest authority must be placed at the top of the pyramid.

v  managers with the same level of authority are placed on the same level

v  If boxes are used to identify these managers, care must be taken to make them the same size because large boxes would indicate more authority.

v  Unbroken line represents direct authority.

v  broken line show functional relation

v  Secretaries and consultants who do not have direct authority are drawn to the side of the main structure.

v  Workers in the various department or units in the organization are placed at the bottom of the charts or at the lowest level.

v  Supervisors within the department or store of the functional area are drawn below the functional area.

The Organization Chart shown above is a Simple Organization Chart that shows how authority flows from top to bottom in an organization and it gives or explains the designation of jobs within an organization and the relationships among those jobs. For example the manager is in charge of the supervisor while the supervisor is in charge of the clerks.

Importance of an Organizational Chart

v  It helps build and design the organization structure to meet the business' objectives.

v   Organizational chart can guide the employees to know their rights and responsibilities

v  It also shows the relationships between the organization's staff members.

v  It helps divide the functions of a company, enterprise or department.

Introduction

The lesson will be introduced with a scenario which will be used to formulate the topic. Students will be probed by the teacher to formulate the topic for the lesson. After the formulation of the topic anything that the students did not understood from the scenario will be cleared up through explanation by the teacher.

Step 1

The teaching strategies that will be used are Discussion, Explanation, Questioning and Cooperative Learning. The lesson will be introduced by scenario. After the introductory activity the students will be questioned on what they have grasped from the scenario. Prior knowledge can be used by the students to devise an answer which will be recorded on the white board. Subsequently the teacher will ask the students to use their responses to determine what they think the lesson will be. The teacher will evaluate their responses and then establish the topic for the lesson.

Step 2

 Students will be further questioned based on the introductory activity to formulate a definition for Organizational Chart. The responses of the students will be recorded on the white board by the teacher. The responses of the students will be modified if necessary. Then the teacher will show the definition of Organizational Chart on PowerPoint to the students. Afterward the students will be given three minutes to copy the definition off the board in their note books.

Step 3

After discussion students will be questioned to decipher the rules of drawing an Organizational Chart. Their responses will be recorded on the board and then students will make comparison with the ones provided by teacher on a multimedia projector. Subsequently students will be allotted two minutes to copy any rules from multimedia presentation that was not brought out during questioning. 

Step 4

Students will ask to construct an Organizational Chart of their school after class discussion. Students will be allotted four minutes to complete the task. The teacher will check the books of the students to see if they are doing task that is required of them. Following that the teacher will randomly select students to come to the board and draw their organizational chart.

Step 5

Students will be further questioned to assess the importance of the Organizational Chart. Students’ responses will be recorded on the board. Following that a comparison will be made between students’ response and that of the teacher which will be presented on a power point. Teacher will then clear up any misconception if necessary. Subsequently three minutes will be allotted to students to write the information from the projector. The teacher will then show students a digital storytelling of the overview of an Organizational Chart.

Lesson Summary

The lesson will be summarized using the hand print strategy where students will sketch their hands on a sheet of paper that will be given to them by the teacher. In each finger on the sketch, the students will write what they have learnt from the lesson. The students will place the main thing that was learn in the thumb. The students will use five (5) minutes to complete this activity. The teacher will collect the papers at the end of the five minutes. This will allow the teacher to determine what the students have grasped from the lesson and what each student think is the most important thing that they have learned.

Culminating Activity

Students will be given four (4) Questions to complete, two short answer questions and two true and false questions. The students will be given ten (10) minutes to complete the activity in their notebooks.