Keyboarding

7th and 8th Grade / Semester

Students and adults use computers every day for work and for pleasure. Competent touch-typing keyboarding skills are an important 21st century lifetime skill that is becoming a necessity for students in coursework, state testing and personal use, as well as in the workplace. This is a structured touch-typing course for motivated individual. You will not memorize the keyboard, you will learn the keyboard and develop accuracy through touch typing techniques. Emphasis will be placed on consistent safe ergonomic techniques (how to work at a computer to avoid repetitive stress injuries). Enrichment activities are available to the motivated student who first achieves touch typing and accuracy proficiency. Learning to touch type is an investment that will pay off for students by drastically cutting down on the amount of time it takes to correctly type projects and will allow students to direct their focus on the content. State and District testing is done on the computer. Some jobs in the workplace expect that their applicants will have touch typing skills before hiring. Middle School is the perfect time to acquire touch typing skills for a lifetime.