Introduction: A Career as an Office Professional OVERALL TEACHING STRATEGIES Teaching Resources Visit the Instructor Resources site in Revel for access to all chapter resources. The new edition of Kilgour’s Administrative Procedures for the Canadian Office, eleventh edition offers instructors both in-class teaching strategies and suggested online delivery strategies. This manual provides overall teaching strategies, points to emphasize, and suggested answers to both study and reviews question along with production challenges. To further supplement this teaching guide, online activities are available. These will include Instructor resources such as PowerPoints, test bank files, videos, and a quiz game. Teaching Suggestions 1.
Give your students some eye-openers on: • the variety of employment that administrative professionals perform. • the trends influencing the working environment. • the ever-increasing flow of communication and tools used. • the multitude of responsibilities that administrative professionals accept.
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Call attention to employability skills groups for administrative professionals that can be found by the Conference Board of Canada and stress their importance.
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Reinforce the concept that your students are preparing not just for a job but for a professional career—a lifestyle. A career as a professional office administrator can be both satisfying and rewarding. Draw attention to both the Company and Graduate Profiles in the textbook, stressing the company framework and professional status of each. Encourage your students to aspire to these levels. Talk about current office trends influenced in today’s office.
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Assign articles to be read to broaden students’ concepts of the office technology field and how this affects an administrator’s role. Spend some class time discussing what they learned from reading the articles and how they apply it to the industry.
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