Ms. Davidson is the Business Studies and Economics teacher at Lucton School Chongqing. She teaches an introduction to business and economics for Year 9 and IGCSE Business Studies and IGCSE Economics for Year 10 and Year 11. Let's take a look into her class and see what the students have been doing recently.

Business studies and economics are highly relevant to the students' daily lives, yet they do not always realise it. Ms. Davidson's classes stimulate students' interest in business studies and economics and make links between the theory we study in class and the real world. This encourages the students' interest in business and economics and assists them to see the relevance in their daily lives and for the future.

Economics is about more than just money! Interesting questions to stimulate student interest in the relevance of economics in the real world.
Students are the centre of learning in Ms. Davidson's classes and the students analyse interesting case studies to apply their learning to the real world. The Year 10 Business Studies class have been learning about how businesses make decisions regarding where they locate their business. This has been an interesting topic for the students and each student chose a particular business and analysed the proximity to the market, proximity to materials, proximity to resources and proximity to customers. This allowed students to understand the reasoning for why specific businesses chose a location.

• Ms. Davidson helping the students as they prepare their presentations.

• Gason's poster analysed the factors that affect where to locate a banana farm.
This topic has been a great opportunity for students to improve their presentation and public speaking skills. Each student spent time researching their particular business and then analysing the factors that affect the decisions on location. Following from this, each student had the opportunity to present their analysis. The students did a fantastic job at presenting and were very professional. The students were also encouraged to ask each other questions at the end of the presentation so they can develop their analysis skills further and help each other.

• Oscar giving his presentation about the factors that affect where to locate a new gym.

• Albert giving his presentation about the factors that affect where to locate a new Lucton school campus.
For year 11 students this year, there has been more focus on exam preparation. Command words are very important at IGCSE level. The students do not only need to understand the exam content, but also know how to approach the exam question in the correct way. Year 11 students have been focusing on command skills that require higher-level thinking such as 'analyse' and 'discuss'. The students have practiced analysing the exam question to understand what the question is asking and then using the teacher feedback to improve their own answers further and improve their grade.

• The key command words for IGCSE Economics and Business Studies are displayed in the classroom.