Lessons

Video Lessons for Children Ages 5-7

This section is entirely speculative, written by an amateur in Early Childhood Education and DAP. This is only a dart thrown at a map. I openly invite expert help from seasoned Early Childhood Education professionals. In any case, let’s guess what one childhood development measure — ages 5-7 — might offer.

We might discuss trading including trading at lunchtime.  What is the meaning of the words, “fair exchange?”  

We might discuss buying and selling.  What do grown-ups buy when they go shopping?  Where do they go?  What are their favorite stores?

Video Lessons for Children Ages 8-11

We might compare the inner structure of any business (small, medium, or large) with the skeletal structure of  mammals (small, medium, or large).  

Mammals come in widely diverse variations and yet they share a basic skeletal structure (head, teeth, neck, rib-cage, backbone, limbs, frontal extremities, lower extremities ).  Businesses come in widely diverse variations, too, and yet they all share a basic skeletal structure — we detect eight basic business departments – namely:

Video Lessons for Children Ages 12-13

Although extremely different from each other, our internal organs interact harmoniously with each other in amazingly specific and reliable ways.  Similarly, the eight internal departments of businesses interact in amazingly specific and reliable ways.  .  

In much the same way, if we conceive of the eight departments as eight related organs, then it would be useful to explore exactly how these “organs” interact with each other.

For example, a child first recognizes any place to shop from its Advertising. From there children might go to a retail store and make an order with one of their Sales folks. Then they’d pay money which is eventually collected by the Accounting folks. Then they’d go to some Distribution to collect their purchase.

/Notice that even children can directly touch four out of the eight basic business management departments. The other four tend to be irrelevant for the children, though they oversaw the whole transaction. I speak of the Owner, Marketing, QA, and HR. These four have distinct, repeated connections with each other and with the other four Departments, too. .

Anyway, we might use charts to trace the inner anatomy of our favorite businesses by using our unique model. 

We might observe at a general level how customers flow through an ordinary business.

Video Lessons for Children Ages 14-15

We could explore some single-person businesses.
We could explore some small companies.
We could explore medium-sized businesses.
We could explore service companies.  
We could explore entertainment businesses.
We could explore multi-national giants

Given all of these sizes and diversity of companies, we might explore whether we have found any exceptions to our universal skeletal structure of businesses.

Video Lessons for Children Ages 16-17

We could direct to student to identify the type of Department that interests the student more than the others as a potential workplace.

We could direct the students to ask themselves: “Where would I fit in?”

We could direct the students to seek Department supervisors among their friends and family. We could try to interview one or more of them with some friendly questions.  

We could direct the students to explore all eight Departments of companies that they might like working for in the near future. . 

Results

Any students who have explored these simple principles among their peers for 8 childhood years will graduate fairly well prepared to work within the global business reality into which they will soon be thrown.

We maintain that our program would help to inoculate graduates (and dropouts) against Unemployment and its Poverty. When even dropouts know how to survive in a modern business environment can be useful in many workplaces, that dropout will pay taxes – a benefit for the State, for businesses, and for workers.

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