Studies and identifies characteristics and attitudes most desired by employers. Provides a rationale for educators to take an aggressive role in adding employability skills instruction to their school's curriculum. Includes four brief sample employability skills activities. (HB)

Business educators must teach word-processing concepts to business administration students. While administrators are not the operators, they are the users in that they prepare material for input and use the output. (JOW)

By incorporating a discussion of systems into the beginning accounting class, students will have a more accurate picture of business and the role accounting plays in it. Students should understand the purpose of forms, have a basic knowledge of flowcharting principles and symbols, and know how source documents are created. (CT)

Keyboarding differs from typewriting in the basic purpose it serves. Keyboarding is the act of entering alphanumeric data on a keyboard of information processing equipment for the purpose of obtaining or communicating information. The target populations for keyboarding are those whose typewriting skill will be primary to their vocations, those…

Educators responsible for preparing the business leaders society needs are challenged to provide more than technically competent workers. They need to nurture growth of persons who can lead creatively. As business educators plan their teaching, they need to use tools like performance objectives effectively, yet keep clearly in mind their inherent…

To meet the needs of industry a variety of communications courses have been designed to improve the speaking and writing skills of pre-professional students. Unfortunately, such courses stress the quality of message production in the business setting while neglecting to emphasize properly the equivalent need for strong reception and comprehension…

Comments upon the lack of writing skills often exhibited by corporate executives and outlines a plan for a one-day workshop on writing that focuses on the businessperson's needs. (JC)

Relates the difficulties of teaching a college business writing course when the majority of the students are foreign. (NKA)

This volume of the Ohio Business Teacher contains articles on teaching business education, especially in the secondary schools, although some articles also include information on teaching business-related material to elementary school children and to adults. Eight of the articles concern classroom teaching techniques for the electronic office,…

This yearbook contains 19 papers (selected by referees) that concentrate on the "hidden curriculum"--integrated topics often taught or needing emphasis, but having limited coverage in classroom textbooks. The book is organized in three parts. Part I calls attention to the subject of excellence versus mediocrity, introduces the reader to current…