WHO SHOULD TEACH KEYBOARDING SKILLS...

A knowledgeable teacher is needed to help students develop appropriate techniques, as well as provide motivation and reinforcement. However, business teachers must understand the methodology of teaching elementary students, and elementary teachers must understand psychomotor skill development. When first learning to touch type, students need about 30 hours of keyboarding instruction to acquire the ability to use the correct fingers.Oftentimes, elementary keyboarding instruction is limited to 10 or fewer hours and the result is poor or no keying skills. Instruction can be supplied by elementary teachers who have taken a keyboarding methods class, a business education teacher with elementary learning methods, or a combination of business education and elementary education teachers.