How a Technical School teaches business with simulations?

Country

Poland

Institution

Technical Schools Complex in Mikołów

Simulation

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+750

Client

The Technical School Complex in Mikołów is a public secondary technical school in southern Poland that prepares students for both higher education and future careers through vocational and general education.

The school offers programmes in economics, accounting, commerce, programming, robotics, advertising and automotive technology. As part of the Business and Management curriculum, students develop an understanding of entrepreneurship, business operations, market mechanisms and economic decision-making alongside their vocational education.

The school places strong emphasis on practical learning methods that help students connect classroom knowledge with real-world business challenges.

Challenge

Teaching business and management well means more than explaining concepts from a textbook. The Technical School Complex in Mikołów, a public secondary school preparing students for both higher education and future careers, wanted its students to actually make decisions, not just study them: to see how pricing, marketing, staffing and financial choices affect a company, and how those areas influence one another.

The school’s Business and Management classes sit alongside vocational programmes in economics, accounting, commerce, programming, robotics, advertising and automotive technology, and the teaching team wanted those subjects to connect rather than stay separate. There was also a recruitment angle: at Open Days, the school wanted a concrete way to show prospective students what a modern, practice-based education actually looks like.

Solution

The school’s teachers built their answer to this around Revas Business Simulation Games, working them into existing Business and Management lessons without changing the curriculum.

Working in teams, students run virtual companies: making pricing, marketing, staffing and investment decisions, then watching how those choices play out in the numbers. The simulation gives them the sandbox; how the lessons are structured, how results get discussed, how the exercise ties back to what students are learning in economics or commerce, is the school’s own teaching design.

That same setup has since found its way into how the school presents itself at Open Days, a way of showing, rather than telling, prospective students and their parents what a hands-on business education looks like.

Students leave these classes having managed a company through a real set of trade-offs, not just read about one. What they take from it, the habit of testing an idea, watching the outcome and adjusting, is something the school built through its own teaching, with the simulation as one tool inside that.

Results

Lessons built around the simulation are more practical and engaging.

Students actively participate in teamwork, analyse data, make business decisions and immediately see the consequences of their choices. Instead of memorising concepts, they solve realistic business problems and adjust their strategy as conditions change.
Working through the simulation, students build a stronger sense of how costs, revenue, marketing, competition and financial performance connect, skills they can carry into further education and future careers.
The impact reaches beyond the classroom too. The school now uses these lessons as one of its distinguishing features during Open Days, part of how it shows prospective students what a modern, practice-oriented education looks like.

Summary

The Technical School Complex in Mikołów shows what happens when a school builds its own practical approach to Business and Management around a decision-making tool.

By combining decision-making, teamwork and real business scenarios, students gain a deeper understanding of how companies operate while developing skills that prepare them for higher education, entrepreneurship and the modern labour market.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Technical School Complex in Mikołów?

It’s a public secondary technical school in southern Poland, offering programmes in economics, accounting, commerce, programming, robotics, advertising and automotive technology alongside its Business and Management curriculum.

Which Revas simulations does the school use?

The school runs its Business and Management lessons around several Revas simulations, including travel agency, IT services, restaurant and electronic store, letting students manage different types of virtual companies.

How are the simulations built into the curriculum?

Teachers worked the simulations into existing Business and Management lessons without changing the curriculum. Students work in teams, making pricing, marketing, staffing and investment decisions, then see how those choices play out in the numbers.

What do students take away from running a virtual company?

Students leave having managed a company through a real set of trade-offs rather than just reading about one, building a habit of testing an idea, watching the outcome and adjusting their approach.

How does the school use this beyond the classroom?

The lessons have become one of the school’s distinguishing features during Open Days, giving prospective students and their parents a concrete way to see what a modern, practice-oriented education looks like.