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Welcome to the Tennessee Business Education Wiki A place for teachers to share This is the link for the Business Ed Curriculum and Benchmarks: []

Template for Lesson Plans:  What is this for?
 * 1) To share lesson plans with other business teachers across the state for each of our business courses at the middle and high school levels
 * 2) To discuss things with other teachers like:


 * Helpful resources
 * Motivation techniques
 * Training opportunities
 * Anything else you desire to discuss

How do I use this site? This is a private site, only for Tennessee Business Educators (or future educators), so you will have to register. To register, click on “Join this Wiki” in the top left corner and follow the instructions. This will shoot an email to me ( jkirk@ortn.edu ) where I can give you permission to post to the site. Once you receive confirmation, you can post away!

What do I do once I’m registered?
 * 1) Click “Sign In” in the top right corner.
 * 2) Find the course/courses you teach on the left side of the page.
 * 3) Click on the course name to view or post information related to that specific course.
 * 4) To post a lesson plan, click on the “Edit Page” button and attach your plan with a little description for us. The button that you click to attach your plan looks like a little box with trees. Find your file and click, Upload. Then, double click on the file to insert it into the page. This might seem weird at first, but, trust me, it works.
 * 5) To discuss, click on the “Discussion” button. This area is kind of like a blog where you can really talk about anything or ask questions and have people respond.
 * 6) If you have something general you’d like to share that is not class specific, you can post to the main page. I also think this would be a great place to post FBLA information as well.
 * 7) For those of you that are not familiar with a wiki, anything can be changed by anyone at any time. If you are uncomfortable with this, but would still like to share, please email me something and I will post it for you ( jkirk@ortn.edu ).
 * 8) I would also like to encourage you to create a profile for yourself so we can all get to know each other. To look at your profile, click on your name in the top right corner. Then, you can edit your information.

I’ve already placed some lesson plans that I have used as well as reading lesson plans from Ms. Burkett to get us started. Shown above is the template you should use for your lesson plans. Ms. Burkett has requested that we all use the same formatting for our lesson plans so they are easier to use and understand.

If you have additional materials that go along with your lesson that you’d like to share, attach those along with the lesson plan as you see fit.

Thank you for participating in this, or at least checking it out. It would be so beneficial if we could utilize this site for communication as we are all teaching the same thing. Let’s stop reinventing the wheel!

If you have any questions please contact me:

Julia Kirk (formerly Julia Volk) Robertsville Middle School, Oak Ridge City Schools 865.425.9214  begin_of_the_skype_highlighting    865.425.9214  end_of_the_skype_highlighting  (work) 865.318-8060 (cell) jkirk@ortn.edu or jvolk@utk.edu

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