According to Article 1992-19 of the Ministry of education, a new curriculum including a business education program will be implemented in high schools from 1996. there will be a drastic change in business education program. The condition for the succe...
According to Article 1992-19 of the Ministry of education, a new curriculum including a business education program will be implemented in high schools from 1996. there will be a drastic change in business education program. The condition for the successful implementation of a new curriculum is to build infrastructures and secure resources; for example, restructuring pre-and in-service business teacher education programs, developing instructional materials such as textbooks, and updating instructional equipment such as computers.
The purpose of this study is to review the new business curriculum in high school and attempt to make policy recommendations in implementing the new curriculum with a focus on secretarial programs.
The conclusion and recommendations can be summarized as follows: First, each high school curriculum should be moved from a closed structure to an open structure which enable students to choose subject areas more freely based on their needs and future career plans.
Second, if the newly planned curriculum is to be delivered effectively by teachers in the field, pre-and in- service teacher education programs should be provided for teachers prior to the implementation of the new curriculum. It is recommended to open a secretarial teacher education program in the School of Education, Ewha Womans University to train teachers for new subject area.
Third, the current business teacher certificate should be reclassified according to teachers major subject area. Since there will be seven major areas within business education, it is impossible to cover all subject areas without teacher specialization.
Fourth, computer should be utilized as a major instructional aid in most business subject areas, since businesses and offices are operated based on office automated computer systems.
Fifth, the foundation of cooperative educational technology center, in which schools share expensive and everchanging computer facilities, is proposed to be used by area schools to keep up to date the current office automation.
Sixth, developing textbooks and teaching materials is an urgent priority since some high schools have already implemented the new curriculum on a trial basis.
Finally, teachers should discourage students who want to acquire competency certificates in simple and tedious skill areas such as typing, bookkeeping, and using the abacus. Instead, word processing and secretarial certificates should be recommended.