5th Six Weeks | Business, Marketing & Finance | 5 class periods (50 minutes each)
Lesson Objective
Students compare real-estate careers and their Texas regulatory boundaries, sequence the current TREC Sales Agent route, calculate a clearly fictional commission scenario, make an evidence-based renovation decision in Flip This House, interpret current national labor evidence, and prepare a private professional briefing.
Learning Target and Success Criteria
Learning target: I can distinguish real-estate roles, explain how variable compensation works, use current license and labor evidence, and make a bounded recommendation.
Students succeed when they can:
- distinguish Sales Agent, Broker, Property Appraiser, and Property Manager work;
- sequence the current Texas Sales Agent requirements without claiming every role uses one license;
- calculate a hypothetical commission and keep gross revenue separate from take-home pay;
- select workbook renovations under $25,000 and calculate cost, value added, and net value change;
- interpret May 2024 U.S. median wages and 2024-34 projections without calling them DFW starting pay or live vacancies;
- deliver a private 45-60 second evidence briefing and complete a six-weeks reflection.
TEKS Alignment
- d(1)(C): Identify career opportunities in Business, Marketing & Finance.
- d(2)(A): Research and describe current training and licensing requirements.
- d(3)(I): Define entrepreneurship and identify a real-estate opportunity and responsibility.
- d(4)(C): Demonstrate professional oral communication through an individual briefing using a companion/evidence card for live or conference delivery, a private recording, or an AAC/speech-generating device.
- d(5)(A): Analyze dated wage, outlook, openings, and economic-sensitivity evidence.
Source and Platform Boundaries
- TREC is the source of record for Texas Sales Agent requirements. Current stable requirements include age 18+, 180 classroom hours across six named courses, application, fingerprint/background review, exam, and broker sponsorship for active practice.
- BLS is the fixed national labor source: May 2024 U.S. medians of $56,320 for Real Estate Sales Agents and $72,280 for Real Estate Brokers; 3% projected growth for the combined group from 2024-34; about 46,300 annual openings. These figures are not DFW starting pay and the wage survey excludes self-employed workers.
- Current Irving ISD public evidence names Real Estate Marketing at MacArthur within the School of Business and Entrepreneurship. It does not by itself promise admission, transportation, schedule, college credit, license completion, exam eligibility, placement, or a specific credential.
- H&L is supplemental. Xello may provide a separately labeled local cross-check. Students can complete the week without a live platform, favorite, screenshot, or open search.
- Required Xello Save careers was completed earlier in the year. It is not repeated in this week.
- All commission percentages, splits, sale counts, and expenses used for class math are explicitly fictional. Real compensation agreements are negotiable and variable.
Week at a Glance
| Day | Focus | Durable evidence | Canvas interaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four careers and regulatory boundaries | Four-role record + two-role comparison | Private annotation |
| 2 | Current TREC route and fictional variable-income math | TREC sequence + three visible calculations | Private annotation |
| 3 | Flip This House ROI and entrepreneurship | FYF plan + one-page individual companion | Private annotation |
| 4 | BLS labor evidence and economic sensitivity | Trend/limitation analysis | Unlimited-retry practice Quiz |
| 5 | Six-weeks synthesis | Private oral evidence brief + written reflection | Private multimodal Assignment |
Assessment Map Boundary
- Days 1-4 are formative. Do not grade platform clicks or daily exit slips separately.
- Day 5 is formative synthesis only. The 5SW assessment map already contains three minors and two majors. The brief does not add a third major and does not replace a prior grade.
- The four Day 5 criteria are source/measure accuracy, role and compensation reasoning, entrepreneurship/labor connection, and individual professional communication/reflection.
- Career preference, family income, drawing quality, accent, public-speaking confidence, grammar, partner attendance, and submission mode do not determine mastery.
Accessibility, Privacy, and Absence
- Required directions remain visible; optional models and vocabulary may use native disclosures.
- Every multi-sentence prompt receives a dedicated full-width writing block. Short cells are reserved for numbers or short labels.
- Allow calculator, enlarged print, screen reader, speech-to-text, dictation, chunked reading, bilingual labels/glossary, teacher conference, and AAC.
- Do not require public financial disclosure, real home addresses/listings, a real application, or an identifiable family budget.
- Absent students receive the same fixed cards, locked workbook visuals, and individual evidence route. A site outage never becomes a grade penalty.