Commerce teacher resources

Resources to help your students successfully transition to university study.

Request 'Where can business take you?' posters

We are delighted to offer schools a poster highlighting a selection of the exciting and varied career pathways your students could explore by studying business.

As you will know, perceptions of career opportunities play a major role in determining what courses students choose to enrol in when entering tertiary study. However, the breadth of jobs available after completing a business degree aren’t always obvious, and this can result in students choosing not to pursue a subject they’re passionate in, because they’re uncertain of the employment opportunities on the other side.

Please fill out the form below to request printed copies of our 'Where can business take you?' posters in our next mail-out.

Minister of Finance presentation

Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Wellington School of Business and Government, Professor Ian Williamson, sits down with Hon Grant Robertson, New Zealand's Minister of Finance, to talk about the 2020 Budget and to ask Minister Robertson questions submitted by high school students from across the country.

Resource kit

• pdf895KBResources for secondary commerce teachers—thanks to Jan Stewart from Student Learning Services for providing practical information and insight into preparing students for the university transition.
• How to create a study routine for university—A module to work through with your students when discussing time management.
• pdf588KBHow students learn—Research commissioned by Wellington School of Business and Government examining the range of ways in which students learn.
• pdf1MBAcademic writing skills booklet—Some of the basic skills needed to write at the university level, regardless of the type of assignment.

Professional development workshops

Wellington School of Business and Government hosts professional development workshops for secondary school commerce teachers, with sessions that cover a range of business disciplines and topics.

Below are some of the presentations from previous Commerce Teachers Professional Development Days.

2020 presentations

• pdf1.2MBProfessor Alex Richter: How COVID-19 changed the way we work
• pdf2.8MBDr Ben Walker: "But I’m an A student?!": A primer on performance-based identities
• pdf2.0MBAssociate Professor Jessica Lai: Potential legal barriers to getting a Covid-19 vaccine or treatment to New Zealanders
• pdf823.8KBTim Ng: COVID-19 economic impacts, responses and outlook
• pdf3.2MBVic Crone: Innovation—thrive or survive
• pdf725.2KBProfessor Lisa Marriott: Taxes and society
• pdf4.7MBProfessor Karen Smith: Corporate Social Responsiblity (CSR)—Who cares?
• pdf858.9KBPatrick Lindsay: The construction sector accord
• pdf1021.1KBDr Kate Prickett: Family economic and social wellbeing during and after lockdown in Aotearoa NZ
• pdf613.6KBMay Guise: Preparing for the future, in partnership
• pdf1.0MBDonna Purdue: Impacts, outlook, and resetting our future
• pdf837.3KBTom Greally: Garage Project
• pdf1.7MBAndrew Grace, Ben Keall, Jonathan Ling - PowerBI Benchmarking

Recordings

• Dr Kate Prickett—Family economic and social well-being during and after lockdown in Aotearoa NZ
• Dr Ben Walker—"But I’m an A student?!”: A primer on performance-based identities
• Associate Professor Markus Luczak-Roesch—Complex systems in our daily lives.

2019 presentations

• pdf192.1KBAssociate Prof Dan Laufer: Communicating with the media during a crisis
• pdf2.8MBProfessor Ian Ball: Public sector accounting—boring to the power of two?
• pdf1.9MBProfessor Ian Williamson: Managing tomorrow's workforce
• pdf1.8MBJane Fletcher: Pathways and employment trends
• pdf808.9KBMelissa van Rensburg: The economical and fiscal implications of an ageing population
• pdf3.2MBNeil Paviour-Smith: What can we make of the uncertain world we are in?
• pdf4.3MBProfessor Karen Smith: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Who Cares?
• pdf6.9MBBrett Hoskin, Clemenger BBDO: Creatures of the creative economy

2018 presentations

• pdf2.2MBProf Ian Williamson: Doing business in South East Asia and Latin America: leadership challenges and opportunities
• pdf1.9MBGrace Campbell-Macdonald: Living standards framework
• pdf1.5MBDr Jan Feld: Modern empirical econometrics
• pdf1.5MBProf Norman Gemmell: Are the poor getting poorer? (and the rich getting richer?)
• pdf2.3MBAssociate Prof Todd Bridgman: Why we need new histories of management
• pdf6.0MBDr Sendirella George: Contemporary accounting education—the universe of all possible accountings
• pdf322.2KBDr Allan Sylvester: Using data science principles for developing business students' critical thinking skills
• pdf1.3MBDr Noelle Donnelly: Progressing gender equity in the workplace—what needs to happen?
• pdf1.6MBJessica Smith: The Māori economy
• pdf4.7MBMāori economy investor guide