The clerical office practice curriculum can provide an important thrust toward the improvement of the learning-teaching goal in human development, where student experiences can become more meaningful and purposeful. Concern for maximizing student human potential as well as acquiring technical competence is the emergent goal of human development.…

The continuing experiments of individual teachers plus the introduction of new kinds of instructional materials and instructional equipment are likely to generate a new wave of innovations during the seventies. (Author)

Six suggested units for a records management course on the high school level and five teaching strategies for the course are presented, along with information about the Association of Records Managers and Administrators, and the course materials available from this organization. (MF)

Presents a flexible plan for scoring straight-copy timed typewriting in any typing class, secondary or postsecondary, which is particularly useful for classes where the students have varied backgrounds in typing. (MF)

Secretarial survival skills of communication, organization, and decision making should be incorporated into the secretarial training program, according to the author. She discusses these skills in relation to career mobility. (MF)

The individual typing teacher in the large urban high school can develop a program within the classroom to lessen the disinterest, resentment, and frustrations that lead to failure by: (1) determining objectives, (2) subdividing course content; (3) determining evaluation procedures, and (4) determining classroom management procedures. (MW)

Four of the real problems that recur in model office simulations are discussed by a teacher, and the methods she and her students have evolved to deal with them are presented. (AJ)

North Dakota Occupational Model instructional packets (approximately 3.280 pages of office simulation materials) focus on the performance of production projects that actually take place in a variety of companies and businesses. The concept can substitute for, or enrich, the cooperative work-experience and expose students to a variety of careers.…

The author describes a sequence of units that provides for competency in payroll procedures. The units could be the basis for a four to six week minicourse and are adaptable, so that the student, upon completion, will be able to apply his learning to any payroll procedures system. (Author/AJ)

Due to the growing complexity of records management, the vocational education of secretaries should extend beyond filing and indexing. Records management principles, transfer and retention plans, retrieval and storage systems, and the value of records management should be included in curriculums to enable secretaries to advance within their jobs.…

This article deals with changes in secretarial jobs and implications for administrative services departments. It considers the impact of technology (elimination of jobs, upgrading of other jobs); opportunities for advancement; and predictions (severe shortage of secretaries, change in job descriptions, dependency on technology). (CT)