The general objective of the vocational office training program is to prepare high school and postsecondary students (general clerical, clerk typist, and stenographic) for initial office jobs and for advancement on the job. The handbook is designed to assist teacher/coordinators in implementing a vocational office training program and an intensive…

One of 11 guides intended for use at the junior high school level of career exploration, the document identifies job families within the business and office occupations cluster, identifies occupations within each family, and gives suggestions for possible classroom experiences, references, and evaluations, as well as supportive materials. The…

The manual for the secondary and postsecondary component of the Business and Office Career Education Curriculum Project consists of four parts. Part 1 contains a concept paper on business and office occupations that describes some of the changes occurring in business and industry and points out some curriculum implications deriving from these…

The curriculum guide presents guidelines for planning and implementing a program in cooperative office education. Techniques include relating individual in-school instruction to individual job needs and career goals and to coordinate the student's education with actual work experience in an office in the community. A summary of Federal and State…

This curriculum guide is the first part of a two-part volume developed to assist those who are engaged in implementing prevocational exploration programs concerned with business and office occupations. It consists of experiential learning pacs that sample a variety of competencies performed by various workers employed in the business and office…

A combination of facts, examples, models, tools, and sources useful in developing and teaching word processing (WP) programs is provided in this guide. Eight sections are included. Sections 1 and 2 present introductory information on WP (e.g., history, five phases of WP, problems occurring in WP offices, factors of people, procedures, and…

A collection of program and course goals in business education, developed by outstanding teachers using available models and guides, together with several indexes and a business education taxonomy which serves as a table of contents and provides an overview of the topics in the subject area, comprise the document. The goals state concisely what…