Business/Marketing
Technology
Program Update
2013
Jim Brock
Teacher Information System
Maria Swicegood
 ace.arkansas.gov
 Career & Technical Ed. Tab
 Teacher Information System
–Everyone is new user
–Username: cte
–Password: teacher
–Optional Information
–Grades K-6 Business Waivers
Frameworks Revision
2013-2014
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• Introduction to Finance
• Insurance and Risk Management
• Investments and Securities
• Introduction to Hospitality
• Introduction to Travel and Tourism
• International Travel
• Travel Destinations
• Lodging Management I & II
• Volunteers will be needed
• New Framework Template (Addition of Common Core and NBEA
Standards)
New Courses
Proficiency in Keyboarding (K-4) OR 399050 Keyboarding (5-7)
355910 Input Technologies
(40 min per week)
378920 Introduction to Business
Communications and Technology
(one-semester)
366910 Technologies Communications
(40 min per week)
378910 Information and Communications Technology
(one-semester)
460100 Technology Design and Applications
(two-semesters)
Courses to be Tested 2013-2014
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• (492140) Advanced Databases
• (492450) Advanced Spreadsheets
• (492050) Banking and Finance Principles
• (492100) Computerized Accounting I
• (492110) Computerized Accounting II
• (492120) Computer Business Applications
Courses to be Tested 2013-2014
• (492150) Digital Communications I
• (492160) Digital Communications II
• (492360) Digital Communications III
• (492370) Digital Communications IV
• (492170) Entrepreneurship I
• (492180) Entrepreneurship II
Courses to be Tested 2013-2014
• (492240) Introduction to Finance
• (492320) Management
• (492330) Marketing
• (492350) Marketing Management
• (492380) Office Management
Courses to be Tested 2013-2014
• (492490) ACE Approved Computer
Applications I
• (492500) ACE Approved Computer
Applications II
In-Services
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Digital Communications I, II, III, and IV
Hospitality
CBA/Microsoft IT Academy
Marketing Inservice (Sept 12-13, 2013)
New Teacher Inservice (Sept 26-27, 2013)
Advanced Microsoft IT Academy (Sept 26-27, 2013)
Licensure
Jim Short
419 Grade 5-6 Business Technology
Endorsement
250 Business Technology Grades 4-12
(given to all teachers who had 225
Business Technology 7-12)
Anyone who has Old Business
Endorsements (Secretarial) may add 250
Business Technology Grades 4-12 by
testing out
Licensure
Anyone with 4-8 or 7-12 license can add 250
Business Technology 4-12 by testing out
– Praxis II: Business Education, test #0101 Minimum
score required: 154
Anyone with 7-12 license can add 222
Marketing 7-12 by testing out
– Praxis II: Marketing Education, test #0561
Minimum score required: 156
Technical Assistance Visits
Sandon Williams
Crowley’s Ridge
North Central
Northeast
Only one notebook
per school per
department
“School Information”
form on our website
Check with your CTE
coordinator for dates
Perkins
• Academic achievement--aligned to NCLB
academic content & achievement standards
• Graduation rates
• Technical skill attainment--aligned to industryrecognized standards if available and
appropriate completion
• Placement
• Non Traditional
Changes in Programs of Study
Jim Brock
FBLA
Maria Swicegood
2012-2013 Total Membership
– Senior Level
Chapters – 264 (-10)
Members – 9245 (-476)
– Mid-Level
Chapters – 107 (-6)
Members – 4476 (-316)
FBLA National Leadership
Conference
Anaheim, CA– June 27 – July 1
Total attendance – 9,500+
Arkansas attendance – 300
Arkansas competitors – 169 in 60 events
FBLA National Winners
2nd Place—Electronic Career Portfolio,
Kennedy Langton, Omaha
2nd Place—Technology Concepts, kevin
Fialkowski, ASMSA
FBLA National Winners, cont.
2nd Place—Word Processing II, Bridget
Sciarra, Omaha
3rd Place—Excel Pilot, Alan Pinter, FS
Southside
FBLA National Winners
4th Place—Business Communications, Taylor
Noakes, Viola
4th Place—Computer Problem Solving, Alan
Pinter, FS Southside
FBLA National Winners
4th Place—Desktop Publishing, Sammy
Shelley and Janessa Gallegos, Cotter
5th Place—Help Desk, John Parker,
Springdale
FBLA National Winners
7th Place—Accounting I, Taylor Walls,
Greenbrier
9th Place—Future Business Leader, Connor
Donovan, LR Central
FBLA National Winners
10th Place—Word Processing II, Madison
Carr, Armorel
FBLA Finalists
American Enterprise Project—Rebecca
Cooley, Erin Whitfield, Paris
Help Desk—Connor Boyster, Piggott
Management Information Systems—Ayush
Sarawat, David Chen, LR Central
FBLA National Recognition
Who’s Who—Kiley Anderson, DeWitt
Teacher of the Year—Kelley Todd, FS
Southside
March of Dimes Local Chapter Most Money
Raised – Brookland, 5th
2nd Place Open Event Professional
Division—Angela McCallie, Carlisle
9 out of the 67 total members achieving
the “America” level of the BAA’s were
from Arkansas
FBLA National Recognition
Southern Region Vice President
– Rachel Ford, Siloam Springs High School
Microsoft IT Academy
Spring of 2013
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Schools set up as testing site—120
Vouchers sent out to high schools—3600
Lake Hamilton High School—47 passed in 1 day
855 Certifications passed as of May 29, 2013
Bryant High School-149 passed/206 taken = 72%
2011-2012
ARKANSAS
June 2013
Percent
Change
Number of Schools
with Certiport
Testing
24
59
+246%
Number of student
tested
256
1694
+662%
Number of
students passed
214
849
+397%
National Certiport Winner
In Excel 2007
Noah Heffron , Roger’s Heritage
Heather Grosze, Teacher