Current
Programs
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General Overview |
Specific Lesson Topics |
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JA Success Skills
Form 4
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Success
Skills enables students to acquire creative thinking
capabilities, improve their communication skills,
interpersonal relationships in teams, rapport building skills,
resume writing and presentation skills early in life, to
enable them to be on the competitive edge of the labor market
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Success skills also addresses behavior change and decision
making skills |
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Creative Thinking Skills
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Communication Skills
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Rapport-Building Skills
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Teamwork Skills
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Resume Writing Skills
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Presentation Skills
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Behavior Change Activity
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Decision-Making Skills
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What’s Next?
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JA Company Program
Form 3 |
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Student Company Program: Teaches students how to organize and
operate a business with the assistance of business volunteers
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The
students go through the process of incorporating and
capitalizing through selling stocks, organizing a Board of
Directors and an Administrative team, developing a business
plan, producing and marketing a product or service,
establishing production and sales goals for the company,
maintaining financial records, compiling an annual report to
stockholders, and liquidating the company
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Students also learn and practice leadership within the company
context and the community they live in
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The
entrepreneurial spirit
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Organizing a Junior Achievement Company
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Self-motivation
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Developing a Business Plan
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Managing a Junior Achievement Company
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Qualities of a leader.
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Community Leadership project
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Creative thinking skills
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Liquidating a Junior Achievement Company |
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JA Leadership Skills
Form 3 |
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Enables young people to gain insights on leadership, qualities
of good leadership. Young people are empowered to see
themselves as leaders in their personal lives as well as in
the communities in which they live |
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The
nature of leadership
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Qualities of a good leader
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The
leadership project
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Leadership case study
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Local leadership
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Proven leadership |
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JA Personal Economics
Form 2 |
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Helps students assess their personal skills and interests,
explore career options, learn job-hunting skills, and discover
the value of an education
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They also learn about budgets, personal and family financial
management, and the use and abuse of credit |
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Marketing yourself
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Identifying your skills and interests
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Job
interviewing
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Personal budgeting
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Family finances
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Paying bills
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Credit rating
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The
stock market
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Analyzing investments |
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Life Skills
Form 1&2 |
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A
US Peace Corps program focusing on HIV/AIDS and behavior
change. It concentrates on development of skills needed for
life such as communication skills, decision-making skills,
thinking, self-esteem building and relationship skills
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The
program uses an interactive approach to teaching
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HIV/AIDS information
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Communication skills
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Relationship skills
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Decision Making Skills |
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JA Job Shadow
Form 3 |
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Provides young people with a hands-on experience of their
dream jobs
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Students are teamed up with business executives for a whole
day. At the end of the day, the students have had an up-close
look at a real job, and they understand how the skills they
learn in school are used in the workplace
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