Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY › Chapter 130 - TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION › Subchapter D - BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION › Section 130.138 - Business Lab (One Credit), Adopted 2015

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) General requirements. This course is
				  recommended for students in Grades 9-12 as a corequisite course for students
				  participating in a coherent sequence of career and technical education courses
				  in the Business Management and Administration Career Cluster. This course
				  provides an enhancement opportunity for students to develop the additional
				  skills necessary to pursue industry certification. Corequisite: any course in
				  the Business Management and Administration Career Cluster. Recommended
				  corequisite: Business Information Management I or Business Information
				  Management II. This course must be taken concurrently with a corequisite course
				  from the Business Management and Administration Career Cluster and may not be
				  taken as a stand-alone course. Districts are encouraged to offer this lab in a
				  consecutive block with the corequisite course to allow students sufficient time
				  to master the content of both courses. Students shall be awarded one credit for
				  successful completion of this course.
(b) Introduction.
(1) Career and technical education
				  instruction provides content aligned with challenging academic standards and
				  relevant technical knowledge and skills for students to further their education
				  and succeed in current or emerging professions.
(2) The Business Management and
				  Administration Career Cluster focuses on careers in planning, organizing,
				  directing, and evaluating business functions essential to efficient and
				  productive business operations.
(3)
				  Business Lab is designed to provide students an opportunity to further enhance
				  skills of previously studied knowledge and skills and may be used as an
				  extension of Business Information Management I or Business Information
				  Management II; it is a recommended corequisite course, and may not be offered
				  as a stand-alone course. Students implement personal and interpersonal skills
				  to strengthen individual performance in the workplace and in society and to
				  make a successful transition to the workforce or postsecondary education.
				  Students apply technical skills to address business applications of emerging
				  technologies. Students develop a foundation in the economical, financial,
				  technological, international, social, and ethical aspects of business to become
				  competent consumers, employees, and entrepreneurs. Students enhance reading,
				  writing, computing, communication, and reasoning skills and apply them to the
				  business environment. Students incorporate a broad base of knowledge that
				  includes the legal, managerial, marketing, financial, ethical, and
				  international dimensions of business to make appropriate business
				  decisions.
(4) Students are
				  encouraged to participate in extended learning experiences such as career and
				  technical student organizations and other leadership or extracurricular
				  organizations.
(5) Statements that
				  contain the word "including" reference content that must be mastered, while
				  those that contain the phrase "such as" are intended as possible illustrative
				  samples.