Career Preparation Program Curriculum Guide for: Business Education.

Overview & Synopsis

This curriculum outline provides secondary and postsecondary instructors with detailed information on student learning outcomes for completion of the business education program requirements. A program overview discusses the aims of education; secondary school philosophy; and career preparation programs and their goals, organization, and evaluation. Sections two and three provide the curriculum format for programs in grades 11 and 12, respectively. Each program is divided into units containing 5 to 27 modules. Both course and unit general aims are cited. Modules consist of these components: goal statements, learning outcomes, and student activities to support the learning outcomes. Topics covered in the four units in the grade 11 program and the three units in the grade 12 program include cooperative career preparation, typewriting, business records, general business (economics, labor relations, personal finances), business communications, and business machines procedures. Section four lists resource materials. (YLB)