Help for a Keyboarding Teacher

[Unregistered]

I'm a college-level keyboarding teacher. Because of the type of college I teach at, I was not required to have a degree in education. Are there any keyboarding teachers out there...on any grade level...who would be willing to share ideas or drills with me? I would greatly appreciate it.

[Unregistered]

I teach 8th grade Computer Discovery and 6-8 weeks of school we spend learning to type. We have a software program that is designed to teach them to type, but to keep them interested in a hard thing!

Once we learn all the keys, I design some sort of "game" if they reach their goal.

What I did last year was if they reached their goal (30 gwam) they put their name on the outside of the classroom door on a "trophy" that was cut out stating that they had reached their goal.

Then, each week, I held contests. I told them on Monday who would get prizes. For Example:

(1) The top gwam in each class period will be allowed to have a drink and candy bar of their choice during the next class period.

(2) The top gwam for the week gets to draw from the "prize bucket"...it had many different things in it.

You basically have to come up with ideas/prizes that they like. Since I teach 8th grade, they are not allowed to have food/drinks in the building, so that works as a great incentive for them. Towards the end of the semester or six weeks grading period bonus points does wonders!!

Hope this helps a little.

[KatieBee]

Those are all great ideas. My typing teacher in middle school was AWESOME she had the best class. She also ran the newspaper and one of the prerequsites for working on it was an A in her typing class--everyone wanted to be on the paper, so they all worked their butts off!

[keyboarding teacher]

Hi . I currently teach a keyboarding class. One of the ideas that I found helpful is to cover the keyboard keys as soon as students become familiar with some keys. this helps to avoid the bad habit of looking at the keyboard while typing.

[Unregistered]

I really liked your idea of awarding student who achieve the target CAWM. My students liked very much, it made them work hard.:)

[Unregistered]

There's one Web site with a free drill program that focuses on learning problem keys. You can make a list of exactly the keys you want to be drilled on. For example, you can specify a list of easy keys and hard keys and have the program drill you mostly on the hard keys, but mix in some easy keys. I love using this site. I never took a typing class, and for years I've only been good at typing letters. I'm using this site to drill me on punctuation and numbers, with special emphasis on 4, 5, 6, and 7. I've been able to make a practice pattern that drills me with lots of punctuation and numbers (especially 4, 5, 6, and 7) mixed with upper and lower case letters.

The Web site is http://uglytyping.goingup.us.

Hope this helps.

[dhom]

Keyboarding games... I think there are lots of them on the Web. :)

[Unregistered]

I've collected up a bunch of typing games and made them easily accessible by kids -- they just click on the picture to go to a fun typing game -- there's a page of easy games, a page of harder games, and a page of downloadable typing games.

Check it out:

http://www.auntlee.com/typinglinks.htm

Aunt Lee
auntlee@auntlee.com

[keyboarding teacher]

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[lukeman]

I'm a college-level keyboarding teacher. Because of the type of college I teach at, I was not required to have a degree in education. Are there any keyboarding teachers out there...on any grade level...who would be willing to share ideas or drills with me? I would greatly appreciate it.

hi am lukeman from ghana 15 yrs old i am a student second yr

[LIBI]

The Long Island Business is seeking keyboarding instructors!
If you have a degree in Business Education or 15credits of keyboarding classes, please send your resume to maladin@libi.edu immediately 4/9/07

[Unregistered]

Hi . I currently teach a keyboarding class. One of the ideas that I found helpful is to cover the keyboard keys as soon as students become familiar with some keys. this helps to avoid the bad habit of looking at the keyboard while typing.

I need to find strong keyboarding covers any ideas where?

[rollerbladingmomma]

Yes, I love to rollerblade and I am a momma--my kids are grown, but I still love it.

In answer to your keyboard covers, I make my own. I use just plain typing paper. Two styles that I have are a picture of the keyboard with the keys color coordinated to the fingers that type them. I make only one and then I scan it and print the amount that I needed. The second cover that I make has a picture of a cartoon character that I drew with a draw program--I added the words "SMILE!!" KEYBOARDING IS GREAT!! I then sent both sets to our school laminating department and had them laminated. I tape these to the keyboards with masking tape so they flip off and on. In the beginning the students use the colored keyboard cover so if they need to look they can to find keys that they forget, but it doesn't take long until they no longer look down. If they do look down after a short amount of time, then I switch the keyboard covers to the one of the cartoon character. Many students request the cartoon character cover. It really does help the students learn the keys better. Without keyboard covers students create their own method of typing, which is NEVER as fast IN THE END as typing the proper way.

I do have my bachelor's degree in Business Education and have taught typing to mainly 6th graders for over 10 years. We continue to build speed with practice in Computer class in 7th and 8th grade. Even the low level learners learn well (a couple have achieved speeds of 25+ wpm) Encouragement and REPETITION are very important. A very good site to build speed has lessons, games, and (automated) timed writings--takes the cheating out of the timed writing is www.freetypinggame.net.

[Unregistered]

Hi,

I am a keyboarding teacher at the high school level, and am interested in teaching keyboarding at the college level. Can you send me some information on teaching keyboarding, such as what the name of the courses are for teaching keyboarding. Please email information to: deidrea.childs@yahoo.com. Thank youN