75861521Next Step ESL – English for Immigrant Professionals
Course Information
Description
Continue to improve your English and develop confidence in writing, reading and pronunciation skills. This class will be taken as a co-requisite with Pathway to Personal Development, 10145132. Students will learn important life skills while improving English and have the potential to earn a digital micro-badge upon completion.
Total Credits
Course Competencies
  1. Employ intercultural communication skills related to describing hard and soft skills, and personal interests, skills and goals
    Assessment Strategies
    Individual Oral Presentation, Written Product - 3-paragraph essay, 10 question multiple choice quiz
    Criteria
    Use participial adjectives to describe feelings, experiences, people and things
    Use mixed verb tenses to practice job application / program admission questions
    Identify personal interests and goals using different verb tenses
    Define Soft Transferable Skills for professional success
    Discuss feelings, opinions and experiences using participial adjectives and mixed tenses
    Collaborate to develop a summary of a reading about goal setting and professional success
    Write a personal summary of a reading
    Identify main ideas and supporting details
    Include effective topic sentences
    Research support services for college students
    Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with people from diverse cultures and linguistic backgrounds
    Collaborate with others using interpersonal communication skills
    Demonstrate cross cultural competencies including awareness, knowledge, skills, practices and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately in the professional workplace with people from other cultures
    Essay includes interests, skills and career goals, and demonstrated awareness of diverse audiences and readership

  2. Identify personal strengths
    Assessment Strategies
    Written Product - 3 paragraph essay, Short Oral Presentation, 10 question multiple choice quiz
    Criteria
    Identify self and others' strengths, weaknesses and self-confidence using the present and past passive
    Use context clues to decode meaning
    State an opinion and the evidence that supports it
    Your list of personal strengths and examples uses the active and passive verbs
    Your oral presentation includes a classmate’s area of confidence using active and passive verbs
    Write sentences with indirect speech and indirect questions
    Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with people from diverse cultures and linguistic backgrounds
    Collaborate with others using interpersonal communication skills
    Demonstrate cross cultural competencies including awareness, knowledge, skills, practices and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately in the professional workplace with people from other cultures
    Essay demonstrates awareness of diverse audiences and readership

  3. Describe steps in finding and applying for jobs
    Assessment Strategies
    Written product - cover letter, 10 question multiple choice quiz, Short Oral Presentation
    Criteria
    Recognize suffixes that change a part of speech
    Use past and past perfect to share self and others past experiences in written and oral form
    Summarize an article on the dangers of job scammers in writing
    Summarize a reading on tips for effective job applications orally
    Utilize transition words and signal phrases
    Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with people from diverse cultures and linguistic backgrounds
    Collaborate with others using interpersonal communication skills
    Demonstrate cross cultural competencies including awareness, knowledge, skills, practices and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately in the professional workplace with people from other cultures

  4. Demonstrate effective interviewing techniques
    Assessment Strategies
    Written product – Thank you letter, Oral Mock Interview
    Criteria
    Identify the main topics and key details in a written text about successful interviews
    Use context clues to decode meaning of academic words while reading
    Summarize a text about successful interview
    Identify context clues to determine whether words have a positive or negative connotation
    Use past modals in oral discussions about effective interviews
    Respond to peer's mock interview questions with effective answers
    Ask interview questions effectively
    Analyze interview responses
    Reflect on past job experiences and interviews in written and oral form
    Thank you note follows the correct format
    Oral presentation topic is about a mistake
    State an opinion and support with evidence
    Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with people from diverse cultures and linguistic backgrounds
    Collaborate with others using interpersonal communication skills
    Demonstrate cross cultural competencies including awareness, knowledge, skills, practices and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately in the professional workplace with people from other cultures

  5. Employ successful small talk strategies
    Assessment Strategies
    Individual Oral Presentation, Written Product - 3-paragraph essay, role-play
    Criteria
    Determine main topic and supporting details
    Recognize phrasal verbs
    Differentiate between gerunds and infinitive
    Written summary identifies misunderstandings with small talk
    Identify and use academic words
    Role-play demonstrates successful small talk with a partner - you initiate and respond to small talk
    Use true and false statements and tag questions
    Paragraph compares and contrasts small talk with two cultures or demographics
    Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with people from diverse cultures and linguistic backgrounds
    Collaborate with others using interpersonal communication skills
    Demonstrate cross cultural competencies including awareness, knowledge, skills, practices and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately in the professional workplace with people from other cultures

  6. Identify strategies to improve relationships
    Assessment Strategies
    Group Oral Presentation, Group Written 5 paragraph essay
    Criteria
    Use present unreal conditional to discuss imaginary situations and give advice
    Include restrictive and unrestrictive clauses in sentences about relationships
    Project self confidence
    Demonstrate active listening skills
    Provide and receive peer feedback
    Deliver a group presentation on teamwork
    Use punctuation phrases and clauses about improving relationships
    Respond to a letter asking for advice
    Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with people from diverse cultures and linguistic backgrounds
    Collaborate with others using interpersonal communication skills
    Demonstrate cross cultural competencies including awareness, knowledge, skills, practices and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately in the professional workplace with people from other cultures

  7. Give and receive effective criticism
    Assessment Strategies
    Written product – narrative writing; mock meeting
    Criteria
    Narrative includes documented sources from a lecture or video
    Use formal language
    Narrative effectively uses adverbs
    Utilize past unreal conditional to express opinions or untrue wishes and regret
    Narrative includes main idea, detail, and facts and reflects on a personal experience with criticism giving or receiving
    Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with people from diverse cultures and linguistic backgrounds
    Collaborate with others using interpersonal communication skills
    Demonstrate cross cultural competencies including awareness, knowledge, skills, practices and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately in the professional workplace with people from other cultures

  8. Demonstrate a positive professional attitude
    Assessment Strategies
    Written product - application essay for a scholarship or admission to a training program; individual oral presentation
    Criteria
    Essay includes a reflective prompt
    Essay cites textual evidence to support a view
    Use transition words to highlight contrasts: on the other hand, nevertheless, in contrast, however
    Use academic words
    Use adverb clauses “although” and “even though”
    Use transition words to highlight contrasts: on the other hand, nevertheless, in contrast, however
    Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with people from diverse cultures and linguistic backgrounds
    Collaborate with others using interpersonal communication skills
    Demonstrate cross cultural competencies including awareness, knowledge, skills, practices and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately in the professional workplace with people from other cultures

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