Welcome to InThinking for the IB DP Business Management course!

This website is designed to help you and your students to achieve success in Business Management as part of the IB Diploma Programme (IB DP) and IB Career-related Programme (IB CP). The website helps you to create and deliver a successful IB Business Management course in your school by:

• addressing all learning outcomes of the syllabus, including comprehensive notes for all sections of the course (first examinations in May 2024).

• providing guidance on all aspects of IB curriculum framework (including the internal assessment, external assessments, the Extended Essay, CAS, TOK, concept based learning, and ATL skills).

• providing students with a range of resources to assist their revision, such as key terms glossaries and flashcards, covering all sections of the IB Business Management course, including the new Business Management Toolkit (BMT).

• giving you ideas for delivering engaging lessons and learning experiences for students, including ATL activities, interactive quizzes, worksheets, crosswords, embedded videos, exam practice questions, and mock examination papers (with full mark schemes).

Watch this brief introductory video to see what the website has to offer you and your students:

Please note that your IB Business Management students can have completely free access to the website once you have activated Student Access. You can also register other teachers in your school to gain access to the website, which is updated every week, 52 weeks a year. The annual subscription therefore represents extremely good value for money and will save you hundreds of hours of planning:

To add some context, a three-day IB Business Management workshop with IBICUS costs around GBP940 and the cost for a similar three-day (15 hours) IB workshop organized by IBICUS is around GBP1,085.

The InThinking Business Management website is organized in syllabus order:

1. Unit 1 - Introduction to Business Management

2. Unit 2 - Human resource management

3. Unit 3 - Finance and accounts

4. Unit 4 - Marketing

5. Unit 5 - Operations management

There is also coverage of all other aspects of the IB Business Management course:

• The Internal Assessment for both HL and SL students. This section of the website includes advice on formulating focused research questions, research methodologies, and interpretation of the new common assessment criteria. Sample research questions are included along with many top tips to support you and your students in understanding how to successfully complete the internal assessment.

• The Examinations section of the website provides an array of resources for all three papers: Paper 1 (based on a pre-released statement), Paper 2 (structured questions with a quantitative focus), and the new Paper 3 (HL only). These include advice on command terms, key terms (glossary), and revision. This section also includes  exam practice questions and full mark schemes to support teachers and students. An "exam tracker" is also included to help teachers to plan their assessments and mock exams for students.

• The Core aspects of the IB Diploma Programme (CAS, EE, and TOK) are covered in this section of the website. It provides advice and case studies about embedding CAS in the delivery of the IB Business Management course, and integrating TOK in the Business Management curriculum. There is an array of resources to support teacher who are supervising students undertaking a Business Management Extended Essay.

• Updates & Notices are provided to help teachers and students to see the latest additions to the website.

• Resources for IB Business Management such as textbooks, workbooks, resource packs, YouTube channels, and so forth are included. Make sure you check this section of the website on a regular basis for updates and additions.

To get an overview of the new syllabus (first exams 2024), please watch this short introductory video.

One of the many benefits of your subscription to InThinking Business Management is your ability to ask questions directly to the site author. Please feel free to post any questions you may have related to the relevant part of the website. InThinking also welcomes any suggestions that you may have.

Supporting and advising teachers is a hugely rewarding aspect of my role with InThinking. So, please feel welcome to ask any questions that you may have. To do show, scroll to the bottom of any page on the website and enter your comments and click on the "Submit comment". You will typically get a response directly from the site author within 24 hours.

Alternatively, you can contact the site author ([email protected]) for content-specific matters.

Please contact the IT team ([email protected]) for any technical issues related to the InThinking IB Business Management website.

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