InstructorsWork Experience Information
Service Learning Information
- Basic Objectives Of Business Education
- Marking Policy
- Computer Applications
- Introduction To Occupations
- Work Experience
- Marketing
- Accounting
- Business Law
- Keyboarding and Advanced Keyboarding
- Computer Skills
- Math & Finance
- Elementary Keyboarding
BASIC OBJECTIVES OF THE BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAM:
- To help prepare students for life and its demands on each person's business knowledge.
- To provide students with knowledge and techniques about business procedures.
- To develop judgment about the management of responsibilities.
- To learn to organize time and develop punctuality.
- To develop desirable work habits.
- To develop positive consumer attitudes and values.
- To help prepare students for the job market with useful skills.
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Grades are based on the following:
1/3 on tests and or in-class work
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Courses Offered
Computer Applications provides students with hands-on experience with computers.
Students will learn in-depth how to use, databases, spreadsheets, the Internet, word processing and to telecommunicate.
Projects involving Desktop Publishing, Hyper Media, and Web Pages are also part of the course. Practical concepts are combined with computer skills to provide a broad life skills experience.
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The curriculum in Introduction to Occupations will help students develop basic concepts and skill in preparation for other occupational courses.
There are two major purposes of this course.
The first purpose is to develop transferable skills which can be used in later work or home responsibilities. The second purpose is to explore occupational interests and abilities prior to taking more specialized occupational courses.
This course is recommended to be completed in 9th grade; however, instruction may also be completed at later grades.
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This course will cover basic functions of marketing and how those functions are applied to sports and entertainment. The basic functions of marketing are:
- Product/Service Management
- Distribution
- Selling
- Marketing-Information Management
- Financing
- Pricing
- Promotion
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This one-year course in Accounting is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of double-entry accounting.
The first 1/2 of the course covers the entire accounting cycle for both a service and a merchandising business with emphasis a one owner cycle.
The second 1/2 of the course uses a college level textbook to help prepare students for further study of accounting.
Accounting will assist students who are seeking entry level jobs and if they choose to go on to college it will help prepare them for business courses.
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The purpose of this course is to get a better understanding of business law. There will be an introduction to our legal system, court procedures, and the jury process.
An understanding of the need for legal assistance in a variety of day-to-day business transactions, so that you may avoid legal entanglements by having a working knowledge of your rights and obligations.
The class will participate in a mock murder trial. Each student will have a participating role as either a witness, lawyer, judge, jury member or defendant.
Law is a full semester course and is suggested that it be take at grade 11 or 12.
Business law can fulfill credit for either a business sequence or a fifth unit in social studies
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KEYBOARDING AND ADVANCED KEYBOARDING
KEYBOARDING
This one-half credit course is designed to develop touch key-boarding skill. Students completing the course will ordinarily not be expected to attain vocational competency. Yet, some students may achieve enough skill to use keyboarding as a personal tool or as a "supportive" job skill.
The application portion of the course will consist of simple problems in vertical and horizontal centering; one or two business letter formats, brief office memorandums, and simple form fill-ins. This course is suggested for grades 9-12.
ADVANCED KEYBOARDING
A 1/2 credit course which emphasizes the further development of keyboarding competencies needed for entry level employment. Office correspondence and advanced keyboarding applications are emphasized.
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A study of mathematical principles used in most business transactions in our modern society. Areas covered are banking, personal finance, credit, calculation, insurance and investments, tax understanding and home expenditure budgeting. The course has two purposes; 1. to prepare students to deal with personal situations they may encounter in everyday life and 2. to prepare students for entry level jobs. The course is recommended for grades 9, 10, or later.
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Students involved in the Salem Work Experience Program gain first hand experience by working at a business, job shadowing at a business, or interviewing someone who is working in their career interest area.
The benefit of this program is to provide students with experiences that will help them make appropriate career decisions.
Work Experience Newsletter
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Students in grades 3, 4, and 5 are receiving instruction in alphanumeric keyboarding. The purpose of elementary keyboarding instruction is to provide students with additional tools in order to better develop their writing and research skills using available technology.
Research has shown that students write more and better when using a typewriter or a computer. Knowledge of how to keyboard before using a computer will lessen student's frustrations in their attempts to use them as writing tools.
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Thomas McMorris, Business Instructor, Work Experience Coordinator, Technology Coordinator
Attended Adirondack Community College after high school and received an Applied Arts and Sciences degree in Marketing. After a few years of working various jobs, Mr. McMorris completed his Bachelors of Science degree in Education/Business at Castleton State College with Greatest Distinction. Mr. McMorris then earned a Masters Degree in Education in Curriculum Development with an emphasis in computers.
Mr. McMorris attended the Cornell Work Experience Coordinator course and has been certified as a work experience coordinator.
Professional organization memberships: National Business Education Association, BMEA, New York State Business Teachers Association, Adirondack Business Educators Association.
Colleen Fish Business Instructor / Service Learning Coordinator
Attended North Country Community College in Saranac Lake, NY after high school and received an Associates degree in Business Administration. Then moved on and attended Champlain College in Burlington, VT and received a Bachelors of Science in Paralegal Studies. Later attended the University of Albany and became certified in Business Education.
Taught in Tupper Lake, NY for nine years before re-locating and coming to Salem.
Teaching role at Salem Washington Academy includes Elementary Keyboarding and Service Learning Coordinator.
Send comments to mcmorris@sover.net
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