Pickens High School Faculty

Business Procedures

Business Procedures is a required class for freshmen at Pickens High School.  The curriculum for this class includes four major units.  These units are communication skills, technology literacy, people skills/business savvy and financial literacy.  In addition, keyboarding/skill building lessons and time management principles will be taught and applied in each unit throughout the course.

The keyboarding review/skill builder lessons will calculate into each student’s daily average.  Daily assignments will count 75% of their daily average. Comprehensive project grades for each unit will count 25% of the student’s daily average.  There will be an exam at the end of the nine weeks that will count 15% of the student’s course grade and their daily average will count 85% of their final grade.

Cheating Policy: Cheating is stealing. The person who copies is cheating himself or herself by not learning. The person who allows his or her work to be copied is cheating the other person out of learning. If you are caught cheating, you will receive a “0” on the assignment, your parent will be notified and you will be referred to administration according to school policy. This includes computer work on or off disk, thumb drive, or network.

Do not bring anything to eat into the classroom.
Water is the only beverage allowed in the room and it must be in a bottle or container with a sealable cap.

Attendance/Tardy Policy: Attendance and tardy policy will follow school policy. See the Attendance/Tardy policy in the student handbook.

Make-up Policy: The Pickens Co. BOE has instituted a new policy for make-up work this year. Please read and understand this policy. It is outlined in the student Code of Conduct.

Computer Use: The PC at your station is for school-related use only. Much of our work will take place on the computer; however there will be days when we do not use them. Only approved, assigned websites will be permitted. NO GAMING or E-MAIL PLEASE!

Principles of Marketing

Course Description: Marketing Principles is the foundational course for all pathways in Marketing Education. Marketing Principles addresses all the ways in which marketing satisfies consumer and business needs and wants for products and services. Students develop an understanding of the functions of marketing and how these functional areas affect all businesses. They learn basic marketing concepts and the role of marketing in our economy. Students also develop skills in applying economic concepts to marketing, distribution and logistics, marketing information management, finance in marketing, product/service planning, pricing mixes, promotional strategies, and personal selling.

Text: Marketing 3e (3rd Edition) South-Western CENGAGE Learning $68.00.
Textbooks will be kept as a classroom set, not to be issued or removed from the classroom by the student without permission.

Course Standards:

1. Examine marketing principles in relation to the free enterprise system and the global environment.
2. Integrate social-studies skills into marketing, sales and service to obtain an understanding of customers and the economic environment in which they function.
3. Acquire foundational knowledge of marketing concepts to understand the scope and impact of marketing on the economy.
4. Implement, modify, and improve business and marketing systems to facilitate business activities.
5. Acquire foundational knowledge of international business and marketing concepts to understand the scope and impact on the economy.
6. Utilize distribution knowledge to manage supply-chain activities.
7. Employ financial knowledge and skill to facilitate marketing decisions.
8. Acquire foundational knowledge of marketing information and research to understand its scope on business and marketing decisions.
9. Utilize pricing strategies to maximize return and meet customers' perception of value.
10. Employ processes and techniques to develop, maintain, and improve a product/service mix to utilize market opportunities.
11. Employ processes and techniques to sell goods, services and ideas.
12. Utilize promotional knowledge and skill for communicating information to achieve a desired marketing outcome.

Cheating Policy: Cheating is stealing. The person who copies is cheating himself or herself by not learning. The person who allows his or her work to be copied is cheating the other person out of learning. If you are caught cheating, you will receive a “0” on the assignment, your parent will be notified and you will be referred to administration according to school policy. This includes computer work on or off disk, thumb drive, or network.

Class Notebook: You will need to keep a 3-ring binder and you will keep all of your work (notes, handouts, quizzes, tests, projects, etc.) in this notebook. There may be notebook checks periodically, counting toward your daily grade.

Do not bring anything to eat into the classroom.
Water is the only beverage allowed in the room and it must be in a bottle or container with a sealable cap.

Attendance/Tardy Policy: Attendance and tardy policy will follow school policy. See the Attendance/Tardy policy in the student handbook.

Make-up Policy: The Pickens Co. BOE has instituted a new policy for make-up work this year. Please read and understand this policy. It is outlined in the student Code of Conduct.

Computer Use: The PC at your station is for school-related use only. Much of our work will take place on the computer; however there will be days when we do not use them. Only approved, assigned websites will be permitted. NO GAMING or E-MAIL PLEASE!

Class Evaluation:
Unit tests (3-5 per 9-week period) 25%
Daily grades/homework/quizzes/ notebook 25%
Projects/Reports 35%
Final Exam 15%

Pickens County Non-Discrimination Policy

Federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin. (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964); sex (Title IX of the Educational Amendments 1972 and the Perkins Act of 1998); or disability (Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) in educational programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.

Students, parents, employees and the general public are hereby notified that the Pickens County Board of Education does not discriminate in any educational programs or activities or in employment policies.