High School Programs

Junior Achievement’s High School Programs are economic and business curricula for students in grades 9-12 and include a student-led enterprise. The dynamic interaction between the volunteer and the students promotes active learning and brings theory to life.

JA Company Program™ is an in-school or after-school curriculum that focuses on analyzing and exploring personal opportunities and responsibilities within a student-led company.

Concepts and Skills
· Business · Capital · Choices · Competition · Division of Labor · Entrepreneur · Expenses · Fixed costs · Goods · Incentive · Income · Management · Marketing · Price · Productive resources · Productivity · Profit · Services · Stock · Variable costs · Assembling products · Estimating · Filling out forms · Giving reports · Graphing · Interpreting data · Math computation · Negotiating · Problem solving · Research · Selling · Teamwork

JA Economics™ is a one-semester course that examines the fundamental concepts of micro-, macro-, and international economics

Concepts and Skills
· Advantage · Demand · Economic systems · Exchange rates · Fiscal policy · GDP · Government · Income distribution · Inflation · Investment · Labor · Markets · Opportunity costs · Productivity · Scarcity · Supply · Trade · Applying information · Classifying · Critical thinking · Decision making · Giving reports · Graphing · Interpreting data · Math computation · Reading · Research · Taking notes · Writing

JA Titan™ is a Web-based business simulation at its core where students learn how to make price, production, capital investment, marketing, and research and development decisions for a fictional Holo-Generator™ product.

Concepts and Skills
· Business · Capital · Capital investment · Cash flow · Competition · E-commerce · Inventory · Management · Marketing · Price · Production · Profit · Research and Development · Risk · Supply · Analyzing situations · Applying information · Charting data · Consensus building · Critical thinking · Decision making · Giving reports · Interpreting data · Math computation · Reading · Teamwork

JA Careers with a Purpose™ introduces students to the importance of seeking careers that help them realize their life potential and noble purpose. The program demonstrates the importance of positive values, life maxims, and ethical decision-making within the context of career and life decisions.

Concepts and Skills
· Career · Career choices · Job · Life roles · Maxim · Noble purpose · World of work Analyzing information · Building self-confidence · Categorizing data · Oral and written communication · Public speaking · Working in groups

JA Banks in Action™ teaches high school students the principles of the banking industry, and introduces them to the challenges of successfully operating a bank in a competitive environment.

Concepts and Skills
· Banking· Banking careers · Central bank · Human capital · Interest rates · Liquidity · Long-term deposit and loan products · Marketing · Products · Profits · Research and development · Reserve · Reserve requirement · Rule of 72 · Services · Short-term deposit and loan products · Spread · Active listening · Analyzing information · Computing · Cost-Benefit analysis · Critical thinking · Data analysis · Decision-making · Following directions · Group discussion · Interpreting information · Math computation · Problem solving · Public speaking · Reading · Teamwork


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