Category «Guest Blogger»

Help Wanted: Guest Bloggers

Do you blog? Would you like to start blogging? The MBEA is looking for guest bloggers! We’d love to relaunch an existing blog post or something new that you write. We’re looking for material on all of the following topics to share with our members: Accounting Financial Literacy Social Media Marketing Economics Entrepreneurship Digital Citizenship …

Forms Data Collection . . . Reverse The Order

I am not a fan of Google forms collecting data by putting the newest entries at the bottom. I often reuse forms with my students (I have some that I’ve been using since 2012) and can’t stand having to scroll to row 750 to find today’s entries. However, if you create a second tab in …

What makes someone want to be a Business Educator?

Why do we Teach?  How did we get here?  What makes someone want to be a Business Educator? I regularly teach the first year introduction to education course in our teacher education program.  The students come from all disciplines and programs.  They include prospective early childhood teachers, elementary school teachers, middle year teachers, arts educators, …

Edcamp Southeastern Massachusetts

A few years ago, I was introduced to Edcamp and my first experience with an unconference. What’s an unconference you ask? An unconference is a professional development event where the attendees build the schedule of sessions on the spot! No one shows up with a pre-made slideshow, or a lecture that’s ready to go. Edcamp …

Bringing Social Entrepreneurship to the High School Classroom

Teaching entrepreneurship education in the classroom can be done in many ways.  As an educator of teaching entrepreneurship, I have had the opportunity to develop my course for more than a decade.  As a rookie teacher, I approached the course by teaching traditionally from the text book and required students to read a chapter, take …