Designed for use by practitioners and classroom teachers with varying backgrounds and teaching experience, this curriculum guide is intended as a pattern to aid in the enrichment and development of more inclusive curriculums. Complete with behavioral objectives, course content, suggested learning activities, materials and equipment, teacher…

Curriculum materials are provided for courses to be taught in business labs, including typing I, advanced and production typing, office procedures (clerical and secretarial), recordkeeping, accounting I and II, consumer math, and business law. Introductory materials include suggestions for setting up labs and a listing of required and suggested…

Some basic areas of law that the author feels should be included in a unit of work for secretarial students are outlined. (HD)

A program covering the duties and knowledge required of a legal secretary. (MS)

To keep students aware of the advantages of shorthand and in the shorthand program, the author presents some techniques for teaching the first week of beginning shorthand, among them letting the students learn basic strokes without a textbook in order to write simple shorthand during the first few days. (MF)

This Administrative and Office Technology Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) is one of a series of competency lists, verified by expert workers, that have evolved from a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) job analysis process involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from throughout Ohio. This…

Conventional secretarial courses typically use competency-based approaches. The author argues that these approaches are not appropriate for providing higher-level secretarial students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for new employment roles. The purpose of secretarial education is discussed, as well as the need for management…

Presented is volume 54 of the official magazine of the Michigan Business Education Association (MBEA), consisting of 5 issues. Among the contents of issue number 1 is a message from the association president; articles on placing business education in the mainstream of Michigan education, the changing roles and responsibilities of secretaries, and…

This secretarial task simulation is designed for use in office occupations programs at the secondary level. The primary purpose is to give the student the opportunity to become familiar with the tasks and duties that may be performed by secretarial personnel in a real work situation. The employee's manual provides general information for the…

A study of perceptions of 562 Illinois secondary students and 45 business teachers regarding secretarial office occupations found students more negative than teachers and male students and teachers more negative than female students and teachers. Significant differences were found in student attitudes by mothers' educational level. (SK)

The course is designed to help the student qualify for employment as a typist in a legal office. Instruction is given to enable the student to prepare all types of legal documents, spell and use legal terminology correctly, and transfer legal information from one document to another. The course description includes: (1) equipment and supplies, (2)…

High school students from various types of schools neither stereotyped nor chose to stereotype the secretarial position. A small group of interested males should be encouraged to become secretaries. (Author)

Suggests instructional activities to prepare secretaries for planning and organizing efficient meetings, both formal and informal. Includes reserving rooms, inviting participants, preparing the agenda and meeting materials, and recording minutes. (MF)

Research offers educators information on the skills that will be needed by office employees as new technologies are introduced into the workplace. Surveys and studies sponsored by private organizations as well as private businesses indicate that employers still require secretaries to have a solid foundation in the more traditional secretarial…

To provide increased career potential for secretaries, the author gives procedures for teaching secretarial students how to dictate business correspondence and includes a guide on how to speak on a dictating machine. (MF)