Based on "Typing 2," Gregg's new second-year vocational typing book for high schools, this article discusses ways to use the textbook and what the teacher can do to support the spirit of realism, purpose, and efficiency that the author feels should dominate the vocational typing course. (TA)

The teacher developed audit simulation takes the student away from the textbook into the real work situation. (BP)

This word processing 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 word processing personnel in a real work situation. The employee's manual provides general information for…

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…

This accounting 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 accounting personnel in a real work situation. The employer's manual provides general information for the student…

A high school Business Enterprise Training Program allows students to participate as a management team in charge of a variety of classroom business enterprises. Teaching strategies, activities, and organization for the program's experiences in basic business principles and management techniques are discussed. (Author/MS)

Describes a business education program for potential entrepreneurs in Arkansas secondary schools called Junior Executive Training (JET). JET includes management principles, investments, parliamentary procedure, banking, consumer education, business law, note taking, dictation and transcription, memory training, public speaking, human relations,…

Describes a simulated auto insurance company at Greenfield High School (Greenfield, Wisconsin), a comprehensive model designed for business students but involving other high school classes such as distributive education, home economics, and auto mechanics. The model is noted to not only train students for an opportunity field but provide them with…

Describes the development of an office simulation program at a California high school. The program also permits career exploration at business offices in the town in the student's area of interest. The article also discusses a followup study of program graduates, who were overwhelmingly supportive of the program. (CT)

This clerical 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 clerical personnel in a real work situation. The employee's manual provides general information for the student on…

Designed to combine a family of related jobs in the accounting field into a realistic learning atmosphere, this simulation revolves around a fictitious company that distributes pet supplies. The simulation has been kept flexible and open-ended to allow for its incorporation into any clerical, bookkeeping, or accounting instructional program.…

This final report of a project to develop an Interchange Model Office Program providing training and work laboratory experiences also contains two products of the project--an employee's handbook and a manager's guide. The narrative describes the program involving two separate classes, each representing a business that conducts transactions with…

BOP, Inc., is a simulated mortgage and loan office serving students in the high schools of Bingham County, Idaho, through a mobile educational service program. The program's primary purpose is to provide work experiences for high school students who have office skills so that they can make decisions about working in an office. The teacher's manual…

Location Decisions is a simulation game in which students obtain and evaluate information about several potential business locations in light of location requirements specific to their game businesses. In Location Decisions, the specific content area taught to students is the process for choosing a location for a small business; the basic skills…

This task-simulation learning module on introduction to business for secondary and postsecondary teachers and students, the second in a series of eleven task and in-basket simulations, was designed to provide individualized instruction in office occupations courses, such as introductory business and typewriting. (Each of the modules in the set is…