Eleven units on typing and related occupations are presented in this teacher's guide. The unit topics include the following: refining typing techniques; correcting originals and carbon copies; typing outlines, business forms, business letters and envelopes, memoranda, telegrams and cablegrams, minutes, agenda, itineraries, speeches, manuscripts,…

This teaching guide consists of statements of goals and objectives, teachers' notes and suggested activities, and lists of suggested materials to use in teaching two consecutive secondary-level shorthand and transcription courses. Covered first are the rationale behind each course, evaluation procedures to be used in the course, course time…

This Technical Committee Report prepared by industry representatives in Idaho lists the skills currently necessary for an employee in that state to obtain a job as a business systems specialist, retain a job once hired, and advance in that occupational field. (Task lists are grouped according to duty areas generally used in industry settings, and…

This teaching guide consists of guidelines for conducting two secondary-level introductory accounting courses. Intended for vocational business education students, the courses are designed to introduce financial principles and practices important to personal and business life, to promote development of clerical and bookkeeping skills sufficient…

This teaching guide consists of statements of goals and objectives, teachers' notes and suggested activities, and lists of suggested materials for use in teaching a series of three secondary-level typewriting courses. Designed primarily but not solely for vocational business education students, the courses emphasize the skills necessary for entry…

Offering a study of records that deal with buying and selling at retail and wholesale levels, the course includes invoices, statements, charge sales, cash sales, sales taxes, and returns. Prerequisite skills include the objectives of Welcome to Recordkeeping and Money Records, and a pretest to aid in student placement is offered. Performance…

This handbook is intended for teachers in Alaksa who are developing and/or operating home-based business programs. The curriculum included in the guide can be used to set up a school-based business to provide students with actual experience in the business. The curriculum also serves as a basic course of study for small business and…

The course prepares the business education student to maintain voucher systems, inventory and budgetary controls, including notes, drafts, and business taxes. The student should have attained the objectives of Partnership Accounting prior to enrollment. Course content includes equipment and supplies, the voucher system, inventory control systems,…

Designed to provide performance objectives and performance guides associated with current occupational information relating to the job content farm business manager, this Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) catalog lists eighty-two competences performed by farm business managers in the areas of obtaining and/or disposing…

This instructor's guide contains the materials required to teach the fruit and nut production component of a competency-based horticulture course that is intended to provide students with technical skills and the basic business skills to run a successful operation or be a productive employee. The following topics are covered in the 12…

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…

The course prepares the business education student for the duties and ethics of the medical secretary and involves intensive practice with a high degree of speed and accuracy in taking dictation and transcribing materials related to the medical profession. Included are skills in spelling, pronouncing, and defining the most-used medical terms and…

A project was undertaken to develop a continuous, competency-based line of vocational training in business and office education programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels that would prepare students for entry-level employment in business and office occupations. To accomplish this goal representatives from 15 South Carolina high schools--2…

This teaching guide consists of statements of goals and objectives, teachers' notes and suggested activities, and lists of suggested materials for use in teaching a secondary-level course on office procedures. Designed for students enrolled in an office skills cluster of courses, this course is intended to synthesize the knowledge and skills…

Designed to help teachers provide students with various word processing skills, this teacher's guide contains nine units of instruction. The units address various skills that are prerequisite for entry-level word processing positions, including concepts and theories of word processing, language usage, mathematics, machine transcription and…