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Teaching Keyboarding

This comprehensive guide outlines the essential principles of teaching keyboarding skills. It emphasizes the importance of active participation, clear goals, and acknowledging progress through psychomotor skill development. With a focus on individual needs and appropriate instructional strategies, including the Home-Row Method and feedback techniques, this resource is designed for educators teaching keyboarding to elementary students. It highlights key motivations, the use of technology, and effective classroom practices to ensure students become proficient keyboard users, paving the way for future academic and career success.

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Teaching Keyboarding

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  1. Teaching Keyboarding

  2. Learning Principles - General • Relevant • Interaction • Active participant • Knows goal • Progress • Expanding behaviors • High level

  3. Learning Principles - Keyboarding • Psychomotor skill • Immediate knowledge of results • Skill development • Transfer of learning • Understand goals • Distributed practice vs. massed practice • Individual needs

  4. Need for Keyboarding Skills • “The ability to use computers to perform everyday tasks will be the most important job skill in the 1990’s” • Word processing skills and computer literacy enhance success in writing and college achievement • Taking a keyboarding course “significantly improve[s] both their post-school employability and earnings”

  5. Equipment • Computers/Typewriters • Stand Alone/Networked Computers • Regular/Split Keyboards

  6. At What Grade Level Should Keyboarding Be Taught? • Fourth grade • 30 hours of instruction to use correct fingers • Not expected to key without watching fingers

  7. Why Elementary Children? • Use keyboard • Develop poor patterns • Develop attitude • Become more efficient • Reinforce writing and editing skills

  8. Who Should Teach Elementary Keyboarding? • Regular classroom teacher • Elementary teacher assigned keyboarding • Certified business teacher at elem school • Business teacher released part of day/year • Support person within school • Community volunteer • Students learn on own from software

  9. National Standards (NBEA) • Difficult to locate (p. 85 & 41) • Proper input techniques • Numeric data • Features of keyboards • Basic keyboarding

  10. Keyboard Presentation • Home-Row Method • First-Finger-First Method • Skip-Around Method • Numbers and Symbols

  11. Typical Lesson Presentation • Machine Adjustments • Objectives • Warmup • Drills and Exercises • Keys • Skill Measurement

  12. Madeline Hunter’s Method • Develop anticipatory set • State objectives • Provide instructional input • Model ideal behavior • Check for comprehension • Provide guided practice • Provide independent practice • Achieve closure

  13. Accuracy • Early Accuracy • Correct Posture • Correct Stroking • Steady Pace • Error Tolerance

  14. Speed • Attainment • Timed Every Day • Observations • Fatigue

  15. Conducting Demonstrations • Students typing or talking • Location, location, location • Demonstration machine • Necessary materials • Follow a routine

  16. Teaching Proofreading • Read copy slowly twice • Work in pairs • Classifications

  17. Teacher Observation • Watch for • moving heads • bobbing shoulders • massaging • keystroking • Feedback • No feedback • General directional feedback • Explicit directional feedback

  18. Teaching Tips • Allow students to look • Provide feedback and reinforcement • Use transparencies for evaluation • Provide guidance and move to confirmation • Understand kinesthesis • Provide real examples

  19. Motivation • Encouraging vs. discouraging remarks • Don’t overuse verbal praise • Be careful with competition • Vary incentives • Allow students to set personal goals • Reinforcement - where they are and reward

  20. REMEMBER • You make a difference in your students’ lives • You can motivate or make them hate class

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