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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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