Business and Economics | Resources 

You can buy this TAP as a downloadable resource which you can access through myaccount. You will receive a zip file containing all the individual resources that you can download. In the future, you’ll be able to access our TAP content through myBTEC, a new free-to-access online toolkit which is currently in developmemt.

This Teaching and Assessment Pack contains:

- sample scheme of work to help you plan your teaching

- sample lesson plan

- delivery guidance

- sample marked learner work

- activity sheets

- readymade presentation slides.

You can buy this TAP as a downloadable resource which you can access through myaccount. You will receive a zip file containing all the individual resources that you can download. In the future, you’ll be able to access our TAP content through myBTEC, a new free-to-access online toolkit which is currently in developmemt.

This Teaching and Assessment Pack contains:

- sample scheme of work to help you plan your teaching

- sample lesson plan

- delivery guidance

- sample marked learner work

- activity sheets

- readymade presentation slides.

• Save valuable planning time: readymade assignments for a full Diploma so you can get straight into delivery* - use them as they stand or edit them to suit your needs.

• Deliver a varied and engaging course: assignments give learners the opportunity to produce a broad range of evidence types – not just reports – from witness statements and role plays to presentations and posters.

• Assess learner work with confidence: sample learner work for each unit that has been graded by BTEC experts to help understanding of BTEC levels of Pass, Merit and Distinction.

• Stretch the most able: covers the Level 3 Unit ‘Starting a Small Business’, which can be used to challenge the most able candidates, and to give learners a flying start if they choose to continue to BTEC National Business.

• Upload to your VLE: CD ROM enables you to share materials with colleagues, print multiple copies, tailor assignments and provide in class examples.

  *Subject to internal verification
  
  All materials are available in a ring binder.  A CD-ROM is also provided to give you all materials electronically: view these on screen, share examples at the front of class, tailor the assignments for your own use, and share materials with your colleagues by uploading to your VLE.

*Subject to internal verification

• Covers the full Diploma including in-depth coverage of the four mandatory units and 11 most popular optional units, giving you the breadth to tailor the course to your learners’ needs and interests.

• Assessment activities give practice for all grading criteria for the units covered, with grading tips – written and reviewed by BTEC experts – to help learners achieve their potential.

• WorkSpace case studies in each unit put the learning into a real-world context giving exclusive access to real businesses, motivating learners by linking their learning to their future careers.

• Written by best-selling, tried-and-trusted BTEC Level 2 First authors with more than 20 years’ experience so you can be confident that the book is written at the right level and provides sufficient depth.

 Author Team:

Carol Carysforth and Mike Neild

Both have worked with BTEC First Business courses since 1992.  They have variously taught BTEC First programmes and written best-selling educational resources that have helped thousands of BTEC First Business students achieve their full potential.

Catherine Richards

Vice Principal at Fareham College, an experienced author for BTEC

Nicola Mortimer-Stokes

A Lead Verifier for BTEC.

• Covers 15 units including all four mandatory units with differentiation built into activities, schemes of work and lesson plans to stretch the most able towards Distinction grades.

• Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans help to save you planning time so you can spend more time supporting your learners.

• A bank of @t Work resources puts engaging videos, interactive activities and PowerPoints at your fingertips – full of vocational relevance and designed for those who learn better by doing.

• Stretch and support guidance helps you to differentiate your delivery to challenge the most able and provide scaffolding and guidance where necessary, helping learners achieve their potential.

• VLE-ready CD-ROM contains all resources for easy upload.

Why not try out one of our exciting interactive activites| and see for yourself how our @t work content will help enthuse and inspire students.

Author Team:

Catherine Richards

Vice Principal at Fareham College and an experienced BTEC tutor and verifier. She has brought her experience to bear in this resource and created an innovative range of differentiated planning and delivery materials designed to engage, support, stretch and motivate learners.

Carol Carysforth and Mike Neild

Best-selling BTEC authors.

• This student book includes all four mandatory units plus eight popular optional units – providing complete coverage for the BTEC Level 3 National Supplementary Award or BTEC Level 3 National Certificate qualifications.

• Assessment activities in each unit give practice for grading criteria and grading tips, to help learners achieve their potential.

• WorkSpace case studies link each unit to real-world business decisions, helping learners to see how the theory is put into practice in industry and to relate their learning to their future careers.

Author Team:

John Bevan, Helen Coupland-Smith, Rob Dransfield, John Goymer and Catherine Richards

They all have a wealth of experience to their writing. The author team combines verifying, pedagogical excellence and best-selling authors to bring you a range of engaging and motivating BTEC resources for the 2010 specifications. 

• Covers 12 units including all four mandatory units with differentiation built into activities, schemes of work and lesson plans to stretch the most able towards Distinction grades.
• Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans help to save you planning time so you can spend more time delivering the course.
• A bank of @t Work resources puts engaging videos and PowerPoints at your fingertips – putting the theory into a vocational context and designed to support experiential learning.
• Stretch and support guidance helps you to differentiate your delivery to challenge the most able and provide scaffolding and guidance where necessary, helping learners achieve their potential.
• VLE-ready CD-ROM contains all resources for easy upload.

Helen Coupland-Smith and Carlo Mencattelli

They are experienced teachers and examiners. They have blended inspirational teaching ideas with practical classroom experience to produce activities that will engage learners. The differentiated delivery notes will stretch learners towards the higher grades

• Brings learning to life through links to the real business world, case studies and lively snapshots of real business settings.
• Contains embedded activities for functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills to ensure learners develop these skills as they progress.
• Includes useful links to work experience, helping students to apply what they have learnt to the workplace.

• Brings learning to life through links to the real business world, case studies and lively snapshots of real business settings.
• Contains embedded activities for functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills to ensure learners develop these skills as they progress.
• Includes useful links to work experience, helping students to apply what they have learnt to the workplace.

• Contains a PDF of the Student Book so you have everything you need to plan your lessons in one place.
• Delivery plans and a bank of ready-made activity sheets for each unit to support principal learning, functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills, and dramatically reduce your planning time.
• A networkable and VLE-compliant CD-ROM contains electronic copies of everything in the printed pack that can be customised to suit your needs.

• Contains a PDF of the Student Book so you have everything you need to plan your lessons in one place.
• Delivery plans and a bank of ready-made activity sheets for each unit to support principal learning, functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills, and dramatically reduce your planning time.
• A networkable and VLE-compliant CD-ROM contains electronic copies of everything in the printed pack that can be customised to suit your needs.

• Contains delivery guidance and sample lesson plans to support you in using the material in this pack to deliver each unit.
• Photocopiable activity sheets and case studies help your students explore all aspects of theory and practice.
• A networkable and VLE-compliant CD-ROM contains electronic copies of everything in the printed pack that can be customised to suit your needs, as well as the unit specification giving you everything you need for each unit in one place.

• Contains delivery guidance and sample lesson plans to support you in using the material in this pack to deliver each unit.
• Photocopiable activity sheets and case studies help your students explore all aspects of theory and practice.
• A networkable and VLE-compliant CD-ROM contains electronic copies of everything in the printed pack that can be customised to suit your needs, as well as the unit specification giving you everything you need for each unit in one place.

Edexcel’s new GCSE resources offer complete flexibility for you and your students with the core Student Book for the compulsory units and three Student Books for the optional units – so you have available materials for the different Business pathways. 

Teacher and Student Support

Deliver engaging lessons with the Student Books and ActiveTeach CD-ROM, providing you with tools to motivate and interest your students.

• Plan lessons with ease using Edexcel’s exceptional support materials – the ActiveTeach CD-ROM includes interactive activities and suggested answers, plus a host of teaching resources linked to the e-spec, the electronic version of the specification, all in one easy-to-use package to be used with the student book.

• Assess your students' performance with Edexcel’s exclusive ResultsPlus and examzone features, fully integrated throughout the Student Books and ActiveTeach CD-ROM.

• Structured to help guide students through all apsects of the new controlled assessmenet to ensure complete coverage of the specification requirements.
• Provides guidance, examples and activities at every stage so students can complete the controlled assessment with confidence.
• A write-in format allows students to store data in one place.
• Templates are provided that can be used when researching, presenting, analysing and evaluating tasks.
• Packed with ‘good practice’ examples to stretch and challenge students. 

• A PowerPoint tutorial with audio voice-over explains how to approach multiple-choice questions and the skills for approaching this type of assessment.
• End-of-topic interactive tests enable your students to test their knowledge and understanding of the Unit 1 content.
• Two Edexcel-style exams are available as interactive tests or as paper versions to provide skills practice.
• PowerPoint revision notes for each topic cover all of the key concepts and ideas.
• The CD content is also appropriate for Unit 6 (the short course).

Edexcel’s new GCSE resources offer complete flexibility for you and your students with the core Student Book for the compulsory units and three Student Books for the optional units – so you have available materials for the different Business pathways. 

Teacher and Student Support

• Deliver engaging lessons with the Student Books and ActiveTeach CD-ROM, providing you with tools to motivate and interest your students.
• Plan lessons with ease using Edexcel’s exceptional support materials – the ActiveTeach CD-ROM includes schemes of work, lesson plans plus a host of teaching resources linked to the e-spec, the electronic version on the specification, all in one easy-to-use package.

• Assess your students' performance with Edexcel’s exclusive ResultsPlus and examzone features, fully integrated throughout the Student Books and ActiveTeach.

The Building a Business Teacher Guide and editable CD-ROM supports the Student Book providing planning and teaching support including suggested answers and mark schemes for the objective tests case studies, practice exam questions from the Student Books adaptable schemes of work and short revision exercises to help you monitor your students' progress.

You might also be interested in:
978 1 846904 97 4 Student Book
978 1 846904 95 0 ActiveTeach

Edexcel’s new GCSE resources offer complete flexibility for you and your students with the core Student Book for the compulsory units and three Student Books for the optional units – so you have available materials for the different Business pathways. 

Teacher and Student Support

• Deliver engaging lessons with the Student Books and ActiveTeach CD-ROM, providing you with tools to motivate and interest your students.
• Plan lessons with ease using Edexcel’s exceptional support materials – the ActiveTeach CD-ROM includes schemes of work, lesson plans plus a host of teaching resources linked to the e-spec, the electronic version on the specification, all in one easy-to-use package.

• Assess your students' performance with Edexcel’s exclusive ResultsPlus and examzone features, fully integrated throughout the Student Books and ActiveTeach.

The Introduction to Small Business Teacher Guide and editable CD-ROM supports the Student Book providing planning and teaching support including suggested answers and mark schemes for the objective tests case studies, practice exam questions from the Student Books adaptable schemes of work and short revision exercises to help you monitor your students' progress.

You might also be interested in:
978 1 846908 72 4 Student Book
978 1 846904 95 0 ActiveTeach

• This full-colour Student Book covers all the course content so students can focus on exactly what they need to know.
• Up-to-date case studies from a range of sectors and companies bring a work-related fell to lessons and support students in relating theory to practice.

• For first teaching from September 2009 and first examination in 2011.
• Its attractive, full colour design and large format makes the laying out of financial statements such as balance sheets clear and easily read.
• Examples and case studies have been drawn from a wide variety of international contexts.
• The free student revision CD is a valuable tool for individual revision – no need for additional revision material.
• Written by Sheila Robinson who has been a lecturer in Accounting for over twenty years and has collaborated with Frank Wood on the last three editions of Book-keeping and Accounts.
• Full answers to the Student Book questions are available to teachers and parents by emailing customersolutions@pearson.com (for UK teachers and parents) or icsorders@pearson.com (for all other teachers and parents).

Author Biography

Sheila Robinson is a well-established author of Accountancy textbooks both in the UK and internationally. She has had extensive teaching experience as a lecturer in Accountancy and management courses. She is a former council member and director of the Association of Accounting Technicians and is currently an advisor on their Assessment Panel.

Edexcel International GCSE Business Studies Student Book provides complete coverage of the Edexcel International GCSE Business Studies specification, so you can be sure you and your students have all the material you need. The Student Book’s attractive, full-colour design and engaging features makes it accessible for every student.

• Written by Rob Jones, a highly experienced teacher and examiner.
• Contains lots of up-to-date, relevant examples and case studies drawn from a wide variety of international contexts.
• Includes a Getting Started case study for each chapter, photos from around the world, helpful artwork and diagrams, useful margin features, key terms and questions at the end of each chapter.
• Free ActiveBook CD with every Student Book, containing a full glossary, revision questions and exam preparation material.

Author Biography

Rob Jones is currently an Examiner for a major awarding body. He is also a consultant to the University of Manchester, where he is working with trainee teachers in Business Studies and Economics. He has over twenty years’ teaching experience and for most of this time was head of a large Business Studies department in a highly regarded North West Sixth Form college. Since he began writing in 1990 he has been involved in over 50 major publications in the fields of Business, Economics and Accountancy.

More Business Studies for International GCSE resources: Longman Business Studies for International GCSE|

• Covers all the relevant skills that learners need to develop to help them achieve success with their project.
• Serves as a reference for learners to access the central relevant theories and ideas which will underlie their project work and to help provide support for independent learning.

• Offers teachers further guidance on the specific Project units to enable learners to work on the compulsory skills needed to achieve success in their project;
• Is closely linked to the Student Guides to offer an extension of this learning and further support and opportunities for practice.
• Provides a range of themed case studies, incorporating the underpinning project skills, that can be used in a variety of ways.

• Brings learning to life with strong links to the real business world, with lively snapshots of the workplace and related activities to engage learners.
• Covers the principal learning and provides a variety of differentiated activities designed to encourage learners to apply their skills and knowledge to real-life settings.
• Functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills features are included in each unit to ensure learners are developing these essential skills in context.

• Brings learning to life with strong links to the real business world, with lively snapshots of the workplace and related activities to engage learners.
• Covers the principal learning and provides a variety of differentiated activities designed to encourage learners to apply their skills and knowledge to real-life settings.
• Functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills features are included in each unit to ensure learners are developing these essential skills in context.

• Contains a PDF of the Student Book so you have everything you need to plan your lessons in one place.
• Specific guidance on functional skills, personal, learning and thinking skills, the Project and working with local employers, helps you feel confident delivering every part of the Diploma.
• A networkable and VLE-compliant CD-ROM provides a bank of ready-made and customisable resources including case studies, industry factsheets, worksheets, lesson plans, schemes of work and PowerPoint slides, to reduce planning time.

• Contains a PDF of the Student Book so you have everything you need to plan your lessons in one place.
• Specific guidance on functional skills, personal, learning and thinking skills, the Project and working with local employers, helps you feel confident delivering every part of the Diploma.
• A networkable and VLE-compliant CD-ROM provides a bank of ready-made and customisable resources including case studies, industry factsheets, worksheets, lesson plans, schemes of work and PowerPoint slides, to reduce planning time.

• Covers all the relevant skills that learners need to develop to help them achieve success with their project.
• Serves as a reference for students to access the central relevant theories and ideas which will underlie their project work and to help provide support for independent learning.
• Covering the following essential skills: gathering and processing information, thinking skills, organisation and execution.

• Offers teachers further guidance on the specific Project units to enable learners to work on the compulsory skills needed to achieve success in their project
• Is closely linked to the Student Guides to offer an extension of this learning and further support and opportunities for practice.
• Provides a range of themed case studies, incorporating the underpinning project skills, that can be used in a variety of ways.

• Written in line with the revised QCF Framework to offer authoritative coverage of the new 2010 NVQ/SVQ Business and Administration standards.
• Covers the mandatory, most B-category units, and most popular optional units with additional support for the Technical Certificate and Functional Skills.
• Highly illustrated units and varied activities meant that candidates are kept engaged and can access the information they need quickly.
• Office Life case studies show learners how the qualification supports their working life and provides practical best-practice tips for making the most of their career.
• Assessment guidance features throughout offer advice on how to prepare for assessment, and how candidates can achieve their best.
• Suitable for all awarding organisations, including OCR, EDI, C&G, Edexcel and EAL.

• Written in line with the revised QCF Framework to offer authoritative coverage of the new 2010 NVQ/SVQ Business and Administration standards. 
• Covers the mandatory, most B-category units, and most popular optional units with additional support for the Technical Certificate and Functional Skills.
• Highly illustrated units and varied activities meant that candidates are kept engaged and can access the information they need quickly.
• Office Life case studies show learners how the qualification supports their working life and provides practical best-practice tips for making the most of their career.
• Assessment guidance features throughout offer advice on how to prepare for assessment, and how candidates can achieve their best.
• Suitable for all awarding organisations, including OCR, EDI, C&G, Edexcel and EAL.

Designed and tested with students, Edexcel’s revision resources are the smart choice for those revising for GCSE Business.

Ideal for classroom or independent study, this Revision Guide is for those students studying Edexcel GCSE Business Units 1, 3 and 5. 

• Written with students in mind, using an informal voice that talks directly to them without patronising.

• Revision resources that are priced to meet both your budget and your students.

• ResultsPlus data delivers insightful exam experience and guidance on the common pitfalls and misconceptions.

• The one topic-per-page format provides hassle-free revision for students with no lengthy set-up time and no complex confusing revision concepts.

• Target grades on the page allow students to progress at a speed that is right for them.

• For exam practice, Revision Workbooks are available that provide plenty of practice in 3 speeds: guided practice questions, unguided practice questions and practice exam papers.

• Get any Revision Guide or Workbook for the school price of £1.99 (Retail price £3.99) when ordering online. This represents a 50% discount on the retail price! Just quote T24 BUSW when prompted at checkout.

Designed for exam practice, this Workbook is for those students studying Edexcel GCSE Business Units 1, 3 and 5.

• The Revision Workbooks provide plenty of practice in 3 speeds: guided practice questions, unguided practice questions and practice exam papers.
  
• Revision resources that are priced to meet both your budget and your students.
  
• ResultsPlus data delivers insightful exam experience and guidance on the common pitfalls and misconceptions.
  
• The one topic-per-page format provides hassle-free revision for students with no lengthy set-up time and no complex confusing revision concepts.
  
• Target grades on the page allow students to progress at a speed that is right for them.
  
• Ideal for classroom or independent study, Revision Guides are available that are written with students in mind, using an informal voice that talks directly to them without patronising.

• Get any Revision Guide or Workbook for the school price of £1.99 (Retail price £3.99) when ordering online. This represents a 50% discount on the retail price! Just quote T24 BUSW when prompted at checkout.

• Activities are integrated within each unit to ensure that candidates practise their key skills and apply theory as they are learning.
• ‘Evidence Planning’ boxes provide guidance throughout each unit to help learners think about and plan what evidence they will produce for their portfolio.
• Links to core units within the optional units, highlight opportunities to gain evidence towards the mandatory units of the portfolio.
• Each unit contains a ‘Snapshot feature’ linked to topics, to provide real-life examples that candidates can relate to.
• Useful 'Changing places' features show how various skills are transferred between different jobs.
• Special sections ensure candidates can build knowledge towards their Technical Certificate.