Methods to help students develop the ability to plan, organize, and control are suggested. These include a simulation in which an office procedures class plans, organizes, and holds a meeting and involves such details as selecting and reserving rooms, scheduling speakers, preparing agendas, planning budgets, preparing name tags, and arranging a…

Describes functional literacy for those interested in office-based occupations. Components of office literacy include computer and cultural literacy, as well as reading skills. Offers six propositions that have implications for office literacy curriculum development. (CH)

Focuses on how business educators can train students realistically for the future, combining change, content, and challenge with traditional basic skills to provide office occupations students with the skills needed to find jobs in today's technological office. (JOW)

Presents teaching techniques and a model to build compositional skills at the typewriter. (HD)

Suggested ways of introducing "realism" into the classroom by exposing students to the problems, jargon, and forms used by a variety of businesses using the "in-basket" on simulated projects. (HD)

Exponential technological change must be accepted and managed as the means to achieve goals of good ethics and an even more satisfying standard of living for all. This will become a reality only to the extent that, as a service function in the organization, clerical procedures become a facilitating catalyst. (Author/SC)

This section, Selected Occupational Topics," includes articles on the various areas within the business education curriculum. (JS)

This section on occupational topics presents ten writers' on problems and methods of teaching in occupational Programs. (JS)

The advent of word processing centers has provided typewriting teachers with an alternative measurement system that, instead of penalizing errors, grades students according to Usable Lines Produced (ULP). The ULP system is job-oriented and promotes realistic office standards in typewriting productivity. (MF)

If a typing teacher makes maximum use of intrinsic rewards, it will not be necessary to use many extrinsic motivational devices. The implications of Maslow's "hierarchy of needs" for teachers of adolescents, and the basic motivational principles developed by Rowe are presented. (Author/AJ)

A general description of the State supervisor's role in coordination, curriculum, public relations, student organizations, program funding, and special project. (JT)

Office procedures must be taught and learned in the context that each country is dependent upon the others for economic survival. This dependence will be successful if the work force in each country understands and appreciates that productivity and cooperation are necessary in a global economy. (Author)

The here-and-there approach to teaching and evaluating business and office skills will teach the skills, but training the totally competent office employee can best be accomplished by integrating and evaluating those skills as the business and office graduate will find them on the job--as a total performance. (Author/BP)

A regular class activity in typewriting classes at Amherst, Massachusetts, regional secondary schools is making and viewing video tape recordings of the students' typing techniques over closed circuit television. Taping procedures, student reaction, and benefits of the program are described. (MF)

Discusses the opportunities, career training and skills, and earnings surrounding a job as medical office assistant. (HD)