- Content is important but students are more important. Be student centered. Help all students find some level of success.
- Use plus points not minus points.
- Allow students to go back and correct their mistakes before moving on.
- Do not allow inferior work to count. Emphasize quality over quantity. Use mailability standards. Three mistakes and it is unsatisfactory and must be redone.
Encourage students to work in pairs and to learn together - In society and the workplace people are expected to work well together. We need to make our classrooms more representative of what is taking place in the work environment. Fewer and fewer people work in isolation. They are part of a team who work together to solve problems and get things done.
- Have assignments turned in as units not just daily assignments.
- If your computer application students have poor keyboarding skills, provide them with some keyboarding drills they must complete as part of their growth and development effort. First-finger, first reach drills work well to improve the use of the correct fingers. (www.educ.uidaho.edu/bustech) under keyboarding. Alphabetic sentences also work well to improve basic keyboarding skills.
- At 20 to 25 wpm students can keyboard more efficiently than they can hand write.
Don’t Ignore the Basics - Teach basic business, accounting, and economics in your technology classes.
- Teach technology in your basic business, accounting, and economic classes.
- Give students a problem or simulation and have them determine how they are going to use technology to solve the problem.
- Don’t rely too heavily on tutorials for computer applications. Give them real assignments for which there is no answer key.
- Entrepreneurship and school based enterprise activities are popular.
- When developing a business plan teach students to develop a chart-of-accounts for their business and then to come up with sample transactions they might have the first month they are in operation.
- Journalize, post, prepare a worksheet and financial statements for the business.
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