The guide presents 15 learning tasks for students preparing to teach business education. Each task contains problem areas, performance objectives, prerequisites, and learning activities. The learning tasks are: orientation to basic business; systematic planning of instructional units; writing objectives for teaching bookkeeping or a basic business course; organizing long term instructional units in a basic business course; teaching a lesson in bookkeeping; selecting and developing materials in bookkeeping or a basic business course; specific instructional approaches in bookkeeping; methods of presentation in bookkeeping and basic business classes; evaluation processes unique to bookkeeping; educational accountability for teachers; contracting as a process for managing individualized instruction; classroom control and behavior modification; verbal learning for teachers of business education; and skill learning. The largest single unit is that on methods of presentation which covers 30 pages. (JR)