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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-05-30, Page 17Practical experiences gained in school office By n135714'4 Typing and Business PraOtiCe Teacher An innovation in commer, 041 education le; the nee of a student's practice office, (you may have seen the Write-up in the paper in Feb. ruary,) The practice office is a small room located in the centre of the Commercial wing and contains the fol, lowing business equipment: electric typewriters,' spirit duplicaters, mimeograph duplicators, off-set dppli- cator, photo-copying equip- ment, filing facilities, and reception counter. This office is manned by grade eleven and twelve commercial students on a day to day basis. The student office manager receives work orders from various teachers requiring some clerical assistance. The Work is delegated to the various stedente in the of, fice that day and upon cOnl- pletion is either picked up or sent back to the teacher in, volved. A record is kept of work completed and an approval form is filled out by the re- ceiving teacher. This in- formation along with a copy of the completed work is filed under the student's Mine! The practice office staff consists of: an office man- ager, (grade twelve student) and two assistants from grade eleven. The office manager receives work, sees that work is completed correctly, assists in t he operation of the various ma- chines and supervises the delivering of the finished product. The assistants pick up supplies, type, operate the various machines and return: finished, eeignments, • The ,object of the Prectige Office is to te4ch the stu, 0ente to be self-reliant; to give them some pragtical nimeriences; to learn to. work without constant t p.ac h er supervision; to give and re, peive orders; to evaluate -their own work; to try to Iron out their own problems before asking for help and . to teach that along wit h greater freedom goes,great., er responsibilities. The approval sheets pool, pleted by the receiy in g teachers are assessed and the work in the practice of- fice forms part of the office practice course. The com- mercial teachers feel that the benefits derived from the practice office certainly contributed towards the suc- cessful completion of the work week. Students from the grade 12 commercial classes held a egwork week" in April as they took up duties at area industrial and business offices. Reaction from the owners and managers of the businesses hosting students was extremely favorable. Rosemarie Weigand is shown with Ausable River Conservation Authority sec-treas. Mrs. C. Hume and SHDHS commercial director Don Webster. In Steno Lab Students set own pace By MRS. D. WEBSTER The benefits of a type- writing course are obvious to everyone as our world be- comes more industrialized and penmanship is stressed less and less. One of the new rooms in the commercial -kr wing is completely equipped u with manual typewriters. These machines are plac- tiA on desks that have a low- ering and raising section, so that each typewriter maybe adjusted to suit the individual student each period. A fil- ing cabinet provides storage where the students keep their day to day work. A sink and cupboards are located in the back of the room. All students take their first and second year train- ing on the manual typewrit- ers. This year, all five year students, as well as the stu- dents in four year Business and Commerce branch are receiving typing instruction. This course varies from personal typewriting to the regular commercial course, so that any student wishing to continue instruction or to use the learned skill later may do so without any dif- ficulty. Electric machines are used extensively in grade eleven and twelve. All four year students in the Business and Commerce Branch receive instruction in Business Practice. This is a broad course outlining the many aspects of business which enter into the life of the average citizen; it stresses consumer's educa- tion and the ability to solve the business problems which confront the layman. As well as developing good work habits, this course is the beginning of record keep- ing. This subject is taught in one of the new classrooms in the east section of the build- ing. Films, filmstrips, over- head projector, as well as field trips add valuable in- formation for the students. BY ARMITA JANES Office Practice and Shorthand Teacher The new Stenographic La- boratory at S ou t h Huron makes possible what educa- tors have long dreamed of — a means of feeding infor- mation to all students in a class according to their in- dividual capacities f o r learning. The Shorthand teacher, without a Steno Lab, must dictate practice material at a rate geared to the middle or majority, of the class. This means that often stu- dents who find Shorthand dif- ficult in the early stages of the learning process, be- come frustrated at not being able to keep up, lose confi- dence, and too often "drop out". At the other end of the spectrum is the student who becomes bored because class dictation is much too slow. Contrast this with Short- hand Classes this year in our new Steno Lab. Here, stu- dents have a choice of three channels, each offering the day's Shorthand Lesson at a different rate. Like Goldi- locks, the students h av e three choices and they choose the one that is "just right" for them. By the end of the year, under this system, (where all students can achieve)our Grade 12 Secretarial stu- dents have gradually worked up, at their own pace, to taking dictation at 100 words per minute. The Steno Lab is also equipped with a record play- er that permits the teacher to play shorthand dictation records that students can "“tune in" on their individ- ual stations. This permits students to adapt to voices other than the classroom teacher, and also introduces a variety of additional material to those students who reach the class objective ahead of their classmates. With a Steno Lab, one teacher in any one Shorthand period, in effect, becomes four or five individual tu- tors, serving that many dif- ferent groups of students at various stages of the learn- ing process. The teacher, who has pre- pared dictation in advance, can circulate the Steno Lab —free to watch, and if nec- essary, correct faulty tech- niques employed by students as they take dictation. By careful advance prep- aration of lessons on dic- tation discs, the Shorthand teacher in the Steno Lab demonstrates that to-day's new “teaching machines" do not• replace the classroom teacher, but rather are a veritable extension of the teacher — opening up hith- erto undreamed of vistas in teaching and learning. The Steno Lab is equipped with an Ampex tape recorder used for training Junior Shorthand students. This year, for the first time, Grade 11 students practice accelerated Speed Writing from Pitman Tapes tailored to their Basic Shorthand Text. Still another innovation in the new Steno Lab is a ,,line- up" of six Edison Voice- writer machines that enable both Grade 11 and Grade 12 'students to gain experience transcribing material from dictation machines typical of those used in so many offices to-day. Typewriters in the Steno Lab, used by Secretarial Stu- dents of the Business and Commerce Branch,' are the widely - acclaimed I.B.M. "Selectric" models just as seen in Life Magazine. But after all, school is just the beginning of the life-long learning process . . . a springboard into the World of Business. This year, Secretarial Students, with the co-operation of area business men, were able to put into practice some of the things they had mastered in the Steno Lab. In addition, they were initiated to many other ma- chines in daily use in the community in whichtheylive and will work. Thus, Secretarial Students because of their exposure to the modern equipment in our Steno Lab move with comparative ease and con- fidence into the local Busi- ness Community. t`sitm. %.4..M.04›,".,Aw • Senior students in the business and commerce course gain experience in practical work by running an office at the school where they perform various typing, shorthand and clerical work for staff members. Arlene Chipchase takes an order from Principal J. L, Wooden while Bonnie Sims and Mary Lou Howard wait to get at the work. 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