COURSE CODE: 6147

Keyboarding Middle

SCED Code: 12005
Virginia Extended Description: 6
Suggested Grade Level: 6, 7, 8
Duration: 6 Weeks
Prerequisite: None
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: FBLA
Non-Traditional?: M

This course is designed to introduce middle school students to the basics of computers, keyboarding skills, and potential careers. Students will develop and enhance touch skills for entering information using a keyboard to compose and produce personal, educational, and professional documents. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

Note: Completer sequences and certifications do not apply.

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Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
Business Information Management
  • Computer User Support Specialists
  • Customer Service Representatives
  • Technical Writers

Pathway Occupation
Information Support & Services
  • Communications Equipment Operators, All Other
  • Computer User Support Specialists
  • Customer Service Representatives
  • Data Entry Keyers
  • Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
  • Medical Transcriptionists
  • Paralegals and Legal Assistants
  • Receptionists and Information Clerks
  • Technical Writers
  • Word Processors and Typists
Network Systems
  • Computer Occupations, All Other
Programming & Software Development
  • Web Developers
Web & Digital Communications
  • Graphic Designers
  • Web Developers

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