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Interview

Learning Outcomes: Students will learn and practice the industry standard skills required to apply for employment.
Alignment with Standards: Essential Academic Learning Requirements Grades 9/10 Grade Level Expectations: This lesson is aligned with Writing 1.5.1 and Educational Technology 1.3.2 and 1.3.3. Students will develop materials in a career-appropriate format. They will locate, analyze, and use information from a national career database.

Common Core State Standards Grades 11-12: This lesson is aligned with…College and Career Readiness Standards for Speaking and Listening, Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas 6, Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating a command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

American School Counselor Association National Standards: This lesson is aligned with ASCA Standard C: Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training and the world of work.C:C1 Acquire Knowledge to Achieve Career Goals, C: C1.3 Identify personal preferences and interests influencing career choice and success.

21^st Century Skills:
· Self-direction: Systematic and comprehensive planning, Self-instruction, Resources, Effective and sustained effort, Self-monitoring and reflection, Results are valuable
· Problem Solving: Identifying and addressing obstacles, Identifying solutions, Self-evaluation and reflection
Materials:
· Teacher Lesson

· Teacher Intro. Power Point presentation
· Copies of hand outs:

CE Mock Interview Questions and Rubric
· Computer/Internet Access

Implementation:
· Ask students about their prior experiences with interviews. How many have they experienced? For which positions/jobs? What are their insights in to the process? What went well or not so well in the interview and what did they learn from the process?

· Present PowerPoint providing them with more background information for effective interviewing skills. (Open file: Teacher_Intro._Interview_Presentation)

· Complete the presentation. (*Students will need computers to complete the next part of the lesson)

· Discuss your class process for setting up and participating in mock interviews.

· Create a schedule for interviews and communicate the times to the students.

· Students will need to have access to computers in order to download/save the interview questions & rubric.

· Have students with the list of questions and the rubric. (CE Mock Interview Questions and Rubric)

· Review the questions & rubric and have students write enter their responses for each question & SAVE with their name.

· Once all students are ready, have students pair up & partner practice, scoring each other on the rubric, & providing each other with positive feedback.

· When students have completed their mock interview questions & peer practice they will need to UPLOAD it with their name to the class Moodle site.
Additional Resources: Article:

10 ways intelligent job seekers blow their interviews

Alignment with Standards:	Essential Academic Learning Requirements Grades 9/10 Grade Level Expectations: This lesson is aligned with Writing 1.5.1 and Educational Technology 1.3.2 and 1.3.3. Students will develop materials in a career-appropriate format. They will locate, analyze, and use information from a national career database. Common Core State Standards Grades 11-12: This lesson is aligned with…College and Career Readiness Standards for Speaking and Listening, Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas 6, Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating a command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. American School Counselor Association National Standards: This lesson is aligned with ASCA Standard C: Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training and the world of work.C:C1 Acquire Knowledge to Achieve Career Goals, C: C1.3 Identify personal preferences and interests influencing career choice and success. 21^st Century Skills: · Self-direction: Systematic and comprehensive planning, Self-instruction, Resources, Effective and sustained effort, Self-monitoring and reflection, Results are valuable · Problem Solving: Identifying and addressing obstacles, Identifying solutions, Self-evaluation and reflection
Materials:	· Teacher Lesson · Teacher Intro. Power Point presentation	· Copies of hand outs: CE Mock Interview Questions and Rubric	· Computer/Internet Access
Implementation:	· Ask students about their prior experiences with interviews. How many have they experienced? For which positions/jobs? What are their insights in to the process? What went well or not so well in the interview and what did they learn from the process? · Present PowerPoint providing them with more background information for effective interviewing skills. *(Open file: Teacher_Intro._Interview_Presentation)* · Complete the presentation. **(Students will need computers to complete the next part of the lesson)* · Discuss your class process for setting up and participating in mock interviews. · Create a schedule for interviews and communicate the times to the students. · Students will need to have access to computers in order to download/save the interview questions & rubric. · Have students with the list of questions and the rubric. (CE Mock Interview Questions and Rubric) · Review the questions & rubric and have students write enter their responses for each question & SAVE with their name. · Once all students are ready, have students pair up & partner practice, scoring each other on the rubric, & providing each other with positive feedback. · When students have completed their mock interview questions & peer practice they will need to UPLOAD** it with their name to the class Moodle site.
Additional Resources:	Article: 10 ways intelligent job seekers blow their interviews