This secondary distributive education performance-based instructional unit on operating your own business contains nineteen lesson plans, each based on a fifty-five minute period. Among the topics covered are the following: (1) the various types of business establishments in the community, (2) small-scale establishments and various small-scale…

Consumer mathematics topics taught in the subject areas of mathematics, business education, and home economics were compiled. The compilation was analyzed and revised by a panel of secondary teachers and university professors from the three subject areas. The proposed curriculum contains 32 topics arranged in rank order of importance by the panel.…

This guide states competencies expressed in performance objective format that would normally comprise the instructional goals for business data processing programs on the secondary level. These competencies are grouped into the following categories: punch card equipment operator, data entry operator, data control clerk, data processing librarian,…

Intended as an instructional aid for teachers of general business and other secondary school business courses, this annual bulletin discusses the following four general economic concepts: Opportunity costs, supply and demand, industrial organization, and marginal analysis. For each concept, principles are developed which can often be applied in…

Designed to prepare students to operate the types of accounting machines used in many medium-sized businesses, this instructor's guide presents a full-year high school course in machine accounting covering 120 hours of instruction. An introduction for the instructor suggests how to adapt the guide to present a 60-hour module which would be…

A collection of six papers by New York business educators deals with criteria for judging the completeness and effectiveness of a business education program. The curriculum, recruitment, program promotion, image, and other aspects of a comprehensive high school program are outlined by C. Irene Schindler. Karen R. Gillespie of New York University…

The outline presents six units of instruction for use in secondary schools and adult education programs to help prepare students with basic typewriting skills for employment as data entry operators. The units are: (1) introduction to punched card data processing, (2) nonbuffered card punch machines, (3) punched card verifiers, (4)buffered card…

The document includes guidelines for the planning and organization of an instructional program for a course of study in typewriting and a complete course outline. The course is divided into the following units: (1) basic typewriting, (2) personal applications, (3) business and personal applications, (4) special applications, (5) office…

This curriculum guide gives a brief review of the relation of business to the community and an introduction to problems in organizing a small business. These problems include basic long-range decisions: type of financing, need for the business, and method of financing. The document also focuses on the more immediate problems of location, housing,…

This course explores questions of why we have taxes and how they benefit people. Various other taxes (local, State and Federal, property, income, excise, and inheritance taxes) are dealt with. There is no specific prerequisite for this course, but it is recommended that students enroll in other consumer economics and business mathematics courses…

With changes in the student body and in society, the author states that the role of business education should be expanded to: enlarge the clientele served, particularly adults; expand the scope of the subject matter taught; and include more services in the areas of counseling and placement. The author offers suggestions for implementing these…

Describes equipment and visuals developed for use in a high school business classroom: flannel, felt, and magnetic boards; "hook 'n' loop" board; pegboard and electric educational board; typewriter book holder; window shade visuals; flip charts; advertising display pieces; diorama; typewriter keyboard; and strip brochure. (MF)

Some of the major areas of concern in business education, as expressed by forty-two supervisors, are student selection and placement, preparation of teachers, scheduling, curriculum, articulation with postsecondary education, cooperation of the business community, funding, and supervisory performance. (MF)

This study reports that the growth of distributive education on the secondary level in the United States will continue for the next five years. It also indicates that enrollments in distributive teacher education programs will need to increase significantly during the period from 1975-80. (HD)

The West Valley Occupational Center in Woodland Hills, California, has design features that are flexible enough to be adapted to a level of technology as yet unknown. (Author/MLF)