JA Business Communication

JA Business Communications, part of the JA High School Experience courses, is a one-semester teacher-led course that equips high school students to focus on communication skills necessary to succeed in business, including communicating up, down, and across organizations, talking about performance, and writing in a business setting. Volunteers engage with students through a variety of activities that includes subject matter guest speaking and coaching or advising for case study and project course work.

Students will learn the necessary concepts applicable to state and national educational standards; apply these standards-based concepts to the real world; synthesize elective concepts through cumulative, tangible deliverables (projects); analyze a business situation or principle through the use of a case study; and demonstrate the skills necessary for future career pathway success.