Business and Economics Life Skills Stage 6 (2010)
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The new Business and Economics Life Skills 11–12 draft syllabus is available for consultation, as part of the NSW Curriculum Reform.
About the course
The Business and Economics Life Skills Stage 6 course provides opportunities for students to develop their financial literacy through the study of economic behaviours of individuals, businesses, institutions and governments.
Study of the Business and Economics Life Skills Stage 6 course should contribute to students’ understanding of the role of businesses in society in designing, producing, marketing, delivering and supporting a range of goods and services.
The structure of the Business and Economics Life Skills course allows teachers to provide a broad and balanced program that reflects the needs of individual students within the context of the collaborative curriculum planning process. Students may study selected outcomes and content within the course.
Study of the Business and Economics Life Skills course involves knowledge and understanding of the:
- economic behaviour of individuals
- roles of individuals, businesses, institutions and governments in the operation and management of economies
- function and operation of markets
- nature, role, functions and processes of businesses
- key issues and challenges for businesses and economies.
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 16688 Business and Economics Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary)
- 16688 Business and Economics Life Skills (2 units – HSC)
Prerequisites: A student studying any Stage 6 Life Skills course will usually have completed one or more courses based on Life Skills outcomes and content in Years 7–10, except under special circumstances.
Corequisites: Nil
Eligibility: Life Skills Eligibility
Study via self-tuition: No
Exclusions:
- 11040 Business Studies (2 units – Preliminary)
- 15040 Business Studies (2 units – HSC)
- 11110 Economics (2 units – Preliminary)
- 15110 Economics (2 units – HSC)
- 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary) (where Business and Economics is undertaken within the course)
- 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – HSC) (where Business and Economics is undertaken within the course)
On entering students for the Business and Economics Life Skills Stage 6 course, the principal is certifying that the student is eligible and the decision is the result of the collaborative curriculum planning process.
Students are expected to address or achieve one or more of the Business and Economics Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes. They need not address or complete all of the content to demonstrate achievement of an outcome.
The knowledge and skills developed in this course can be applied across a range of career pathways.
Industries related to this course include, but are not limited to, the following outlined on the Your Career website:
What are Life Skills courses
All students are entitled to participate in and progress through the curriculum. Life Skills courses provide course options for students with intellectual disability or imputed intellectual disability in Years 11–12 who cannot access related general education courses.
Students with disability can access syllabus outcomes and content in a range of ways, including through a range of adjustments to teaching, learning and assessment activities. Decisions regarding curriculum options should be made in the context of collaborative curriculum planning.
Assessment support and advice
Teaching and learning support
The Life Skills outcomes worksheet can be used to collect information on the outcomes that a student has achieved before recording them in Schools Online.
Business and Economics Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes worksheet (DOCX 16.16KB)
Read more about supporting students with special education needs.