G.C.E. A/L - Business Studies - Teachers' Guides
The Business Studies syllabus for the General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level) is implemented in the Sri Lankan school system from 2017 onwards after being revised under the national curriculum revising policy which is implemented once every eight years.
Business studies, an Advanced Level subject was undergone to the first revision on competency-based in 2009 has been orderly listed out under 18 competencies. Competencies from 1 to 11 are relevant to grade 12. A practical teaching-learning process that can be implemented in the classroom for 66 competency levels from competencies 12 to 18 in the grade 13 syllabus has been proposed in this guide.
The relevant competency, competency level, the number of periods allocated for that competency level, the learning outcomes expected to have been achieved at the end of the learning are contained first and then proposed instructions for lesson planning, followed by a guideline to explain the subject matters are also contained in this guide in great details. The classroom teaching-learning process is expected to be planned in a manner of Business
Studies will be developed parallel to the growth of attitudes, skills, and practices of the students. Adequate guidance is expected to be gained for that purpose through these Teachers’ Guides. In this manner, a teacher has a higher ability to lead the students for practical learning to make them acknowledge with subject matters as well as to keep the classroom alive through planning the lessons for classroom teaching-learning process with reference to the proposed benchmarks under instructions for lesson planning and the detailed facts contained in the guideline to explain subject matters.
This new syllabus that has been implemented from the year 2017 in schools, has already been in use among the teachers in the forms of the syllabus for grades 12,13, and the grade 12 teachers’ guide. When compiling this teachers’ guide, some parts in the grade 13 syllabus were subjected to be revised under the recommendation of the subject board. Therefore, it is emphasized here that those revisions have been provided as an appendix in this grade 13 revised syllabus.
Since Business Studies is a practically lively subject, it is expected to enrich the Business Studies subject as well as to perform as a successful teacher at teaching-learning process by expanding the boundaries of the scope of their comprehension, reviewing the updated subject matters simultaneous to the prospective charges that may possibly take place in the business field.
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