The survival of business education depends on how well we predict the future in developing a curriculum and how well we promote it on national, state, and local levels. (Author)

Discusses the need for state and local professional associations to have an active public relations program to develop and maintain the visibility necessary to attract and hold members and gain and retain public awareness. (JOW)

With microcomputers becoming more readily available and the forecast for a growing need for a computer literate society, business education teachers should be ready and willing to accept the challenge of preparing students for the information age. (Author)

Word processing can be integrated into business courses, even if the school system doesn't have funds for word processing equipment. The basics of word processing have always been taught by business education teachers; however, it is now time to integrate more specifics regarding word processing skills, terminology, and concepts. (CT)

Since computers are universally accepted in business today, the accounting classroom is the appropriate place to teach their use. A California high school accounting committee's recommendation led to the school's development of a computer processing program within the accounting department. The program's curriculum is described. (CT)

Round Robin is a game in which students must express accounting information in their own words. It is a means of familiarizing students with the language of vocabulary and of developing their verbal expressiveness. (SK)

Humor contributes to teamwork, creative problem solving, mental flexibility, and risk taking in the workplace. As a classroom tool, it increases student attentiveness and retention of information. (SK)

Candyconomy is a technique that uses a single commodity to illustrate several basic concepts in economics such as scarcity and choice, opportunity cost, trade-offs and decision-making, exchange, supply and demand, and equilibrium. The example has been used with over 5,000 elementary and secondary students. (JOW)

The study of persuasion is a significant means of dealing with others in the business environment. Speaker credibility and methods of establishing credibility are essential elements in the process of educating students for and about business. (JOW)

Describes techniques for teaching business students about the benefits of recycling in the office and ways to purchase office equipment and supplies with ecological concerns in mind. (JOW)

To assist students in understanding the emerging workplace, teachers must help them realize the importance of creating opportunities for themselves. Students must learn from their experiences that they can find or create enterprises that provide needed products or services. (JOW)

Explores the importance of relationship literacy--the ability to create good relationships with others--in the next economy and offers perspectives on how business education instructors can help students develop and improve their human relations skills for business success. (Author/JOW)

Suggests that by incorporating entrepreneurship into the basic business curriculum now, business educators will better prepare students for a changing environment. Offers the business plan as a tool for integrating entrepreneurship into the curriculum. (SK)

Explains the implications for business educators of globalization of business. Provides an annotated list of resources and a table of additional Web resources for teaching international business concepts. (SK)

The guidelines described here were developed to help novices to microcomputer hardware develop an increased understanding of the different types of microcomputer hardware available. (Author)