Engage:

• Designed for the needs of the Entry 3/Level 1 learner in full colour, with a spread-based approach, and topics broken into clear, bite-sized chunks to retain learners’ attention.
• Lively activities, mini case studies and clear checklists and summaries help learners engage with - and remember - content.

Achieve:

• Extensive coverage with 11 Level 1 units and 2 Entry Level 3 units – covering 39 credits - so you can be confident your learners have the content they need to achieve their qualification.
• Edexcel’s own Assignment tips, written by BTEC experts, help learners to achieve their potential in assessments.

• Activities mapped to the assessment criteria in each unit, provide support and clear direction for learners, helping them to work towards the criteria.

Progress:

• Prepare your learners for employment with a focus on employability skills and definitions of key terms.
• Help your learners progress to BTEC Level 2 First by building their confidence with the style of BTEC qualifications.

Teaching Book

• Your copy of the Student Book, with tailored introduction notes to help you to get the most from BTEC’s own resources.

Resource Disk

• Save your planning time with schemes of work, unit introductions and delivery guidance – including advice on covering Functional Skills – to help you plan and prepare for lessons.
• Easy-to-use with the Student Book covering all the units from the textbook andwith clear references to the activities and content.
• Inspirational teaching ideas for each unit give you engaging ideas to get you started on each topic.

• Save valuable planning time: readymade assignments for a full Diploma so you can get straight into delivery* - use them as they stand or edit them to suit your needs.

• Deliver a varied and engaging course: assignments give learners the opportunity to produce a broad range of evidence types – not just reports – from witness statements and role plays to presentations and posters.

• Assess learner work with confidence: sample learner work for each unit that has been graded by BTEC experts to help understanding of BTEC levels of Pass, Merit and Distinction.

• Stretch the most able: covers the Level 3 Unit ‘Starting a Small Business’, which can be used to challenge the most able candidates, and to give learners a flying start if they choose to continue to BTEC National Business.

• Upload to your VLE: CD ROM enables you to share materials with colleagues, print multiple copies, tailor assignments and provide in class examples.

  *Subject to internal verification
  
  All materials are available in a ring binder.  A CD-ROM is also provided to give you all materials electronically: view these on screen, share examples at the front of class, tailor the assignments for your own use, and share materials with your colleagues by uploading to your VLE.

*Subject to internal verification

• Covers the full Diploma including in-depth coverage of the four mandatory units and 11 most popular optional units, giving you the breadth to tailor the course to your learners’ needs and interests.

• Assessment activities give practice for all grading criteria for the units covered, with grading tips – written and reviewed by BTEC experts – to help learners achieve their potential.

• WorkSpace case studies in each unit put the learning into a real-world context giving exclusive access to real businesses, motivating learners by linking their learning to their future careers.

• Written by best-selling, tried-and-trusted BTEC Level 2 First authors with more than 20 years’ experience so you can be confident that the book is written at the right level and provides sufficient depth.

 Author Team:

Carol Carysforth and Mike Neild

Both have worked with BTEC First Business courses since 1992.  They have variously taught BTEC First programmes and written best-selling educational resources that have helped thousands of BTEC First Business students achieve their full potential.

Catherine Richards

Vice Principal at Fareham College, an experienced author for BTEC

Nicola Mortimer-Stokes

A Lead Verifier for BTEC.

• Covers 15 units including all four mandatory units with differentiation built into activities, schemes of work and lesson plans to stretch the most able towards Distinction grades.

• Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans help to save you planning time so you can spend more time supporting your learners.

• A bank of @t Work resources puts engaging videos, interactive activities and PowerPoints at your fingertips – full of vocational relevance and designed for those who learn better by doing.

• Stretch and support guidance helps you to differentiate your delivery to challenge the most able and provide scaffolding and guidance where necessary, helping learners achieve their potential.

• VLE-ready CD-ROM contains all resources for easy upload.

Why not try out one of our exciting interactive activites| and see for yourself how our @t work content will help enthuse and inspire students.

Author Team:

Catherine Richards

Vice Principal at Fareham College and an experienced BTEC tutor and verifier. She has brought her experience to bear in this resource and created an innovative range of differentiated planning and delivery materials designed to engage, support, stretch and motivate learners.

Carol Carysforth and Mike Neild

Best-selling BTEC authors.

• This student book includes all four mandatory units plus eight popular optional units – providing complete coverage for the BTEC Level 3 National Supplementary Award or BTEC Level 3 National Certificate qualifications.

• Assessment activities in each unit give practice for grading criteria and grading tips, to help learners achieve their potential.

• WorkSpace case studies link each unit to real-world business decisions, helping learners to see how the theory is put into practice in industry and to relate their learning to their future careers.

Author Team:

John Bevan, Helen Coupland-Smith, Rob Dransfield, John Goymer and Catherine Richards

They all have a wealth of experience to their writing. The author team combines verifying, pedagogical excellence and best-selling authors to bring you a range of engaging and motivating BTEC resources for the 2010 specifications. 

• This student book comprises eight optional units, giving additional unit choice for the Supplementary Award and Certificate, and enough support for students to complete the full Diploma.

• Assessment activities in each unit give practice for grading criteria, with grading tips – written and reviewed by BTEC Level 3 National experts – to help learners achieve their potential.

• WorkSpace case studies link each unit to real-world business decisions, helping learners to see how the theory is put into practice in industry and to relate their learning to their future careers.

John Bevan, David Dooley, John Goymer, Catherine Richards and Neil Richards

They all have a wealth of experience to their writing. The author team combines verifying, pedagogical excellence and best-selling authors to bring you a range of engaging and motivating BTEC resources for the 2010 specifications.

• Covers 12 units including all four mandatory units with differentiation built into activities, schemes of work and lesson plans to stretch the most able towards Distinction grades.
• Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans help to save you planning time so you can spend more time delivering the course.
• A bank of @t Work resources puts engaging videos and PowerPoints at your fingertips – putting the theory into a vocational context and designed to support experiential learning.
• Stretch and support guidance helps you to differentiate your delivery to challenge the most able and provide scaffolding and guidance where necessary, helping learners achieve their potential.
• VLE-ready CD-ROM contains all resources for easy upload.

Helen Coupland-Smith and Carlo Mencattelli

They are experienced teachers and examiners. They have blended inspirational teaching ideas with practical classroom experience to produce activities that will engage learners. The differentiated delivery notes will stretch learners towards the higher grades

• Brings learning to life through links to the real business world, case studies and lively snapshots of real business settings.
• Contains embedded activities for functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills to ensure learners develop these skills as they progress.
• Includes useful links to work experience, helping students to apply what they have learnt to the workplace.

• Brings learning to life through links to the real business world, case studies and lively snapshots of real business settings.
• Contains embedded activities for functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills to ensure learners develop these skills as they progress.
• Includes useful links to work experience, helping students to apply what they have learnt to the workplace.