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Welcome to Keyboarding for high school students. It is our hope that you will be blessed by the time you invest our class. WCS keyboarding is taught using the Touch Typing method. The method considered by most scholars to be the fastest and most reliable typing method yet devised. During the time you spend with us, you will learn how to format business documents, edit and correct documents, format tables and outlines and create professional looking research papers. Grammatical and syntactical rules are taught by application and you will be taught how to avoid common literary errors.

You will be taught on computers using a typing tutorial program created by IBM and licensed to Westminster Christian School as part of a special research project. After finishing your initial instruction, it is our goal to use asysnchronous teaching techniques to raise your typing speed to 45 words per minute or better with an accuracy at least 90%. Computer programs designed and developed at Westminster will be used to test your speed and accuracy using the most stringent of standards.

You will be graded on completion, speed, accuracy and professionality. Completion grades are calculated based on the number and quality of assignments each student produces during a marking period. Speed and accuracy are calculated by computer based testing programs and are scored using a using a standard distribution curve that is computer based as well. Your professionality will be determined by inspection of fingering methodology and eye tracking. Your work habits and behavior will be carefully scrutinized and graded according to strict business standards.

If you miss a test, you can take a make-up test after upon returning to class. You may make up assignments by checking out a keyboarding book from the WCS library or by coming after school to use the computer lab. All work done at home must be accompanied by a letter from a parent or guardian attesting to the fact that this work was done in their presence. Standard forms for this are available both in the library and in the computer lab.

Mr. Bouwsma (or a computer lab attendant) is available Monday through Friday from 3:10 to 5:30 PM n the computer lab. The computer lab is used by the Middle School After Care Program , as part of a project to determine if playing strategy games effects student mathematical abilities. As a result, the computer lab is not a quiet place to think after school. If you can excuse some noise, you are welcome to come any day work to on your project or use the computer lab for any work that assists you or your parents. We are glad to help in any way that we can.