This paper reflects on how a 'sense of belonging' is cultivated for both the teaching team and the students in a large, core first year Business unit. In the Innovative Business Practice (IBP) unit students develop their personal brand and professional identity through strength-based science, and also pitch creative solutions to social problems.…

This article, the second in a two-part series, catalogs teaching innovations presented at the 2013 Association for Business Communication Annual Convention, New Orleans. They were presented during the My Favorite Assignment session. The 11 Favorite Assignments featured here offer the reader a variety of learning experiences, including…

Career education is stronger now than at any time in the past, but it is still faced with many challenges and problems. Among such problems, one of the most obvious is the relative slowness with which career education is being implemented at the senior high school level. Vocational educators, from every area of vocational education, must assume…

One purpose of the study was to identify, compare, and report the various patterns of organization and characteristics of student teaching programs in business teacher education. Another purpose was to identify and report the various patterns of organization, characteristics, and distinct features of existing internship programs in business…

Materials are provided from a presentation concerning the Holmes Group, a coalition of 39 education deans from leading research universities, and its reform package for teacher education. The specific focus of these materials is creation of a revamped graduate-level education curriculum for business teacher education at the Ohio State University…

The purpose of this study was to: (1) conduct an empirical examination of applicant reactions to faculty jobs described in recruitment advertisements for business faculty vacancies at community colleges; and (2) assess factors that potentially impact applicant decisions to apply for and pursue position vacancies. The results of this study have…

Representatives from 154 National Association for Business Teacher Education institutions responded to a questionnaire designed to elicit responses about the most effective recruiting practices for business teacher education programs. Several questions were included to determine the present status of business education programs and trends in these…

A study investigated from a national perspective factors that influence the attrition and retention of newly hired secondary business teachers in the public sector. It also identified factors important to determine a business teacher's interest in continuing or not continuing in the teaching profession. The survey developed for the study consisted…

The preferred learning styles of secondary business education students were studied, and whether a match existed between student preferences and the preferred teaching styles of their teachers was also investigated. Eight secondary business education teachers completed the Canfield Instructional Styles Inventory and administered the Canfield…

Teacher educators' views on preparing future business education teachers to deliver workplace skill instruction were examined in a survey of an adjusted sample of 183 members of the National Association of Teacher Educators for Business Education who were in teacher education positions. Of the 71 teacher educators who completed surveys (a 38.8%…

This study examined the career patterns of secondary school business education teachers, focusing on possible demographic differences between teachers who sought alternate career paths and those who did not. A stratified national sample of 284 business teachers completed a survey questionnaire. The study found that the typical respondent was a…

The business education teacher must thoroughly understand why and what he is doing in career education. A career education program can be viewed as consisting of five categories from which the teacher is to form a basic career education philosophy. (1) To develop in the student self-awareness and a positive attitude toward self, school, and work.…

A survey of 50 secondary state officials and one district official with supervisory responsibility for business education was conducted to assess business-subject-related certification/endorsement practices. More specifically, the instrument was designed to determine the following: (1) the number of different types/titles of…

Data were collected on the demographic characteristics, educational backgrounds, and perceptions/attitudes of the approximately 1,429 business and marketing education teachers who were among the subsample of 3,538 vocational teachers and total sample of 56,051 public school teachers who participated in the 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey.…

Three purposes of a study of marketing education (ME) instructors in Tennessee were as follows: to identify the activities they perceived to be effective, to determine the perceptual style orientations of those activities as identified by experts in perceptual learning style research, and to develop a framework for instructional planning that…