In this article, the author reflects on her continual journal in regard to improving her teaching skills. She opines that this journey is a story that could resonate with other colleagues to whom teaching is also critically important but to whom it does not come naturally. She describes lessons she learned in her early years of teaching, and she…

Four articles are presented concerning program justification, student recruitment, and quality course offerings. Hosler and Harris discuss factors related to program justification and student recruitment. Goddard and Raabe share teaching implications of P.L. 94-142, and Duff and Syck examine instructional strategies in accounting. (CT)

This article makes an argument for including a capstone, or end-of-term, business simulation course in community college business curricula. The International Business Practice Firm (IBPF), a worldwide virtual business network, is proposed as a foundation for such a course. The author argues that, in general, graduates of college business programs…

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…

Includes five articles: "Women in Management" (Zimmerer); "Business Boot Camp (interviews with young entrepreneurs)" (Kaser); "Plan Your Own Business Project" (Kohns); "Business Education and the Middle Level Student" (Patterson, Leblanc); and "Small Business Ownership Planning" (Fiber). (SK)

Discusses some of the fears and anxieties of automation held by older adults. Teaching techniques that aid the older adult learning process are suggested. The article also contains an interview with Anna M. Tucker, director of the Rhode Island Department of Elderly Affairs, concerning the elder adult's fear of automation. (CT)

Offers a rationale for the concern with and involvement of business education in the topic of productivity in the workforce, and suggests ways in which business education can prepare more productive workers. (Author/JOW)

Discusses ways to build a business education program that has student support, the endorsement of the community, effort and involvement from the school, the district, the profession itself, and independent funding for special projects, and therefore, will be a strong, viable department within the school district. (JOW)

Traditional business courses, such as typing, shorthand, and accounting, must be expanded to include communication, computational, and keyboarding competencies. These competencies can be integrated into existing courses. (JOW)

School services include work performed in school by students that is related to the instructional objectives of any course. These services for others benefit the students, the business programs, and the school. (JOW)

Provides seven suggestions for enhancing student performance and for reliably documenting student achievement through the use of carefully developed criterion-referenced measures. (JOW)

States that the advent of word and data processing centers necessitates an integrated approach to business education curriculum. Describes how a typical word processing center should operate in a school as if it were situated in a large corporation or business. (NRJ)

Considers what British case studies are currently available. Includes a classified bibliography of books of case studies and materials available from the Case Clearing House of Great Britain and Ireland. Discusses the suitability of this material for use with pre-experience business students. (Author)

Presents the implications of changing office technology for the business education classroom. (JOW)

Describes a course in information processing which combines word processing (WP) and date processing (DP). The purpose of the course is to make students aware that WP and DP should not work in isolation but together for the common good of the organization. (JOW)