This guide sets forth minimum approval criteria for secretarial training in office occupations education programs in Oregon. The information in the guide is intended for use by district-level curriculum planners, teachers, regional coordinators, or state education department staff involved with new program development or revisions of existing programs. The guide outlines the instructional content of secretarial education programs in terms of program descriptions, areas for training, program goals, course/content goals, and sample performance objectives. Descriptions are given of the following course titles: Office Procedures, Typing, Office Machines, Business Communications, Bookkeeping/Accounting, Shorthand, and Cooperative Work Experience. A section on organizational options is designed to illustrate a few of the many ways to deliver the minimum instructional content required for an approved vocational cluster program. Content is illustrated by course titles for the instructional levels to recognize that students from different grades may enroll in one or more levels of a program. (KC)