Self-Paced Learning Activity Guides (SPLAGs), which have been used in typewriting classes at Oklahoma State University for four years, are described in terms of organization, suggestions for classroom procedures, management of paper work, solution booklet utilization, testing procedures, and student reactions. (BM)

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)

Looks at the failure rate of students in Accounting 211 in the Virginia Community College System. States that rote teaching styles that do not incorporate interdisciplinary and other diverse methods, do not take into account developing learning skills, and do not encourage active learning are doomed to fail. Makes recommendations for new…

This guide is intended to help vocational teachers design and implement a cluster program in office occupations (clerical and secretarial, including word processing). The guide suggests teaching ideas for a program aimed at high school students, as well as those wishing to enter community college, university, or apprenticeship programs. To develop…

This study was designed to determine the effects of variable and specific practice of typing individual letters on response time to typing those letters within specific letter combinations and on overall speed and accuracy of intermediate typists (46 high schools students who were taking Typewriting II). The letters selected for investigation were…

The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference in the achievement of students in shorthand and typewriting classes taught by a master teacher using automated instruction as compared with the achievement of students using the same method and material with an instructional assistant supervising the classroom. This…

New features are described which were added to the business and office teacher education program currently in existence at the University of Minnesota in Duluth. Teaching approaches used are individualized instructional systems and traditional, group-scheduled situations. Classroom management (tutoring) experiences, a professional education…

The success of shorthand/transcription programs should be judged more on students' abilities to satisfy the ultimate goal of shorthand/transcription--neat, error-free copy--rather than on their abilities to pass three-minute speed takes with 95 percent accuracy. (CT)

A formula for a rotation plan and eleven steps for individualizing programs for student assignment on office machines or other individualized units are presented. Illustrating the plan are a worksheet showing time allotments for the students and machines and the rotation units for the same students and machines. (MF)

This volume of the Ohio Business Teacher contains articles on teaching business education, especially in the secondary schools, although some articles also include information on teaching business-related material to elementary school children and to adults. Eight of the articles concern classroom teaching techniques for the electronic office,…

This booklet contains 30 one-page strategies for teaching mathematical skills needed for office procedures. All the strategies are suitable for or can be adapted for special needs students. Each strategy is a classroom activity and is matched with the skill that it develops and its technology/content area (communications and/or mathematics). Some…

Written as a reference for teachers of shorthand and transcription, this instructional guide is organized into three sections. The first section discusses the administration of the stenographic program and focuses on the needs, objectives, and organization of the program. Characteristics of occupational preparation programs are also noted. Section…

Editorial, like clerical, proofreading cannot be left to chance; the know-how, what and why must be reviewed, recalled, reinforced, and refined daily. There are four avenues of daily activities available to the teacher to establish these skills: (1) homework reading assignment, (2) dictation-for-control material, (3) dictation for…

The article reports on a critical incidents study of effective and ineffective teacher behaviors in the instruction of college-level beginning shorthand, to provide data which would lead to more effective teaching. The report includes a list of 44 effective teaching behaviors, discusses the findings, and offers five concluding statements. (AJ)