Designed to develop selected skills common to many health occupations, the course includes fundamental and manipulative skills such as those required of the nurses aide. There are no prerequisites, and the 45-hour course is planned to provide the student with selected theoretical knowledge correlated with laboratory periods of applied practice in…

This curriculum guide provides the student with an understanding of the various methods of handling, paying, and recording payroll and sales taxes; fixed assets and their disposal; depreciation; losses due to bad debts; various types of notes; and accrued interest and expenses. Also listed are the 27 performance objectives, a course outline,…

The curriculum for the training of the entry level health workers (referred to as nursing aid, assistant, or basic health care worker) is organized with a modular approach and designed within the framework of a humanistic learning growth model. Module 1, The Health Core, provides basic education for any health care worker. Module 2, The Patient…

The course outline guides the teacher in presenting to students the skills necessary to become proficient in the use of the collator. It is highly desirable for the student to have mastered introductory and advanced keypunch courses before beginning the collator operation course, which is one of a series of four preparing the student for…

This beginning course is designed to introduce elementary typewriting skills and provide an exploration of office career opportunities. Course content includes goals, specific objectives, typing, spelling and business vocabulary, alphabetic filing, and exploration of office occupations. A post-test and bibliography are appended. (NH)

The course, which can also be taken as part of the Vocational Office Education--Secretarial series, gives students experience in typewriter composition, spelling, proofreading, setting up letters in two styles, acting as a receptionist, and in keeping bank records, a petty cash book, and a payroll. Course content includes the proportional space…

Filing in all aspects--alphabetic, subject, numeric, geographic, and chronological--along with the organization and management of filing systems makes up the thrust of the course content in the curriculum guide. The objective is to prepare students for office occupations. Content includes course guidelines, performance objectives, learning…

The course aims to help students develop an understanding of the organization of corporations, corporate stock and bond transactions, fiscal reports, income tax returns, and dividends. Students also analyze financial statements and complete a corporation practice set. An outline of course content includes: (1) equipment and supplies, (2)…

This pamphlet describes a course designed to give students mastery over the 10-key and full-key adding-listing machines in solving special business problems. With course guidelines, performance objectives, course content, learning activities, evaluative instruments, student and teacher resources, the course content seeks to develop occupational…

The course outline has been developed to assist instructors to plan for and teach a 9-week course in operating the sorter and in advanced keypunch techniques, preparing the student to perform as a keypunch operator trainee or sorter operator trainee. The first week of the course provides a short review of key punching principles. In the following…

The document presents a syllabus which would serve as a guideline for health occupations educators in establishing a course of study for training medical assistants which would meet New York State requirements and be acceptable for State credit. The syllabus is arranged in three columns: (1) minimum acceptable content of study which requires 80…

This curriculum guide provides an introductory course for secondary students interested in health careers. The instruction is sequential and exposes the student to a core curriculum including interpersonal, vocational and practical skills basic to the health occupations cluster. The course objectives are to: (1) Identify jobs and job opportunities…

The guide is designed for use by agricultural instructors, administrators, supervisors, school boards, and others who are involved in planning instructional programs for vocational agriculture/agribusiness education in high schools and adult education. Part 1 details information pertaining to the administrative aspects of program development,…

The course prepares the business education student for the duties and ethics of the medical secretary and involves intensive practice with a high degree of speed and accuracy in taking dictation and transcribing materials related to the medical profession. Included are skills in spelling, pronouncing, and defining the most-used medical terms and…

The emphasis of the course is placed on identification of the responsibilities of the parent, community, and school to provide for the needs of the child within a framework of the health and safety requirements established by law. The student may participate in schools and centers in the area in order to observe the guidance techniques and…