Course Syllabus
Masters of Education – Business Education
Course Description: This course emphasizes the development of competencies in secondary/post-secondary
teachers that apply to teaching in the area of business education. Special emphasis is placed on technology;
instructional strategies; course/program planning, implementing, and evaluating; professional development;
and research.
Required Textbook: McKeachie’s Teaching Tips. Written by Wilbert J. McKeachie. ISBN 0-618-11649-4.
Objectives: Through systemic study, the student will be able to:
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Design and justify an appropriate secondary/post secondary business and office technology
education curriculum which promotes personal qualities, academic skills, interpersonal skills, and
job-related business skills and knowledge while promoting equality regardless of gender, race, or
handicap.
Develop and express a personal philosophy of teaching business and office technology education.
Design and begin the creation of a professional portfolio.
Outline a course and prioritize the content for the appropriate time line and learning style
reinforcing the importance of sequential instruction and identify the learning outcomes.
Develop an organized unit of instruction that accommodates:
a. Learning outcomes, various appropriate instructional alternatives/strategies, and appropriate
assessments.
b. Presentation of information in a simple to complex sequence.
c. Transition of learning.
d. The three domains of learning—cognitive, affective, and psychomotor.
e. Different styles and models of learning.
Develop and design a professional and appealing course syllabus that includes learning outcomes,
course content, learning experiences/assignments, evaluation grading system, and classroom
discipline and management policy.
Develop lesson plans from the unit of instruction objective above that include appropriate
learning outcomes, various instructional strategies, transitional and sequential learning, classroom
environment, necessary equipment/materials/supplies, and evaluate measurements.
Develop strategies to implement and/or strengthen a program’s youth organization.
Design a power point presentation marketing the department’s offerings for an audience that may
include students as well as parents of those students.
Display an understanding of the importance of being proactive as well as reactive to student
behavior and the role that the teacher plays in management.
Demonstrate an understanding of the appropriate professionalism necessary to parents, students,
administrative communication, legal compliance, ethical appropriateness, community
involvement, self-growth and development.
Demonstrate an understanding of the diversity among people.
Demonstrate an ability to equip and maintain a computer lab for the business and office
technology department that will facilitate reaching the district’s mission and goals as well as the
department’s objectives while meeting budgetary and procedural confines.
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Course Content: An applications function will be used in this performance-based, special methods course.
By completing these applications (learning experiences), the student will demonstrate competence in
performing the tasks of the classroom teacher.
Learning Experiences:
1. Preparation of a course outline for selected subject from core area.
a. prioritize the content according to the appropriate time line and learning level
b. sequential instruction must be obvious
c. identify instructional strategies
d. identify and classify the learning outcomes (exiting)
e. student must locate a text book for use.
2. Preparation of a course syllabus for selected subject in core area.
3. Participation in field/clinical experience and journal with reflective statements.
a. a requirement of 3 hours (3 class periods)
b. experience will consist of secondary or post-secondary on-site classroom observations
c. be prepared to conduct reflective observation, information assemblance and analysis, and
application
d. student learning from the three-phase experience must center on the following:
- lesson planning
- instructional strategies with learning styles
- goals and objectives for the course and/or lesson
- classroom and behavior management
- conducive learning environment
- classroom diversity
- time management
- student-teacher communication and interaction
- assessment/evaluation techniques
e. reflective entries concerning the eight areas immediately above must be made in journal
format
f. additional reflective journal entries—one centered on an interested student (anonymous) and
one centered on a disinterested student (anonymous)
4. Program marketing strategies.
a. develop a list of promotional strategies that could be used to promote and market your
business and office technology education department’s youth organization
b. design a power point presentation marketing the department’s offerings and youth
organization for students and their parents—include scanned pictures and/or graphics as
well as power point clip art and text
5. Philosophy of teaching business and office technology education--should be at least two pages
(double spaced) and presented in a professional and scholarly manner with an obvious blend of
theory and application.
6. Design and begin the creation of a professional portfolio.
7. Research one of the following professional organizations: National Education Association (NEA),
National Business Education Association (NBEA), or Association for Career & Technical Education
(ACTE). Describe the benefits of the organization.
8. Design a 20-student computer lab complete with advanced technology. The design should be
presented in “blue-print” format with all equipment labeled accordingly. In addition, prepare a cost
summary.
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Tentative Grading Standards:
Professional Organization
Philosophy of Education
Course Outline
Syllabus
Professional Portfolio
Promotional Strategies
Promotional PowerPoint
Computer Lab
Reflections/Field Experience
Total
150 points
50 points
100 points
050 points
050 points
050 points
150 points
100 points
100 points
600 points
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