Submitted by Kimberly Kroll

Objectives:

Content:
Students will: -identify personal characteristics by completing a simple self-inventory. -identify their areas of strength in regards to ability by completing a self-evaluation. -identify certain occupational values that are important to them by completing a self-evaluation.

Cultural:

Language: Content Obligatory
Students will: -complete a self-inventory and self-evaluation in the target language using the job-related vocabulary presented in previous lessons, cognates and descriptive vocabulary. See ìAuto Inventarioî and below. maduro inmaduro organizado servicial irresponsable responsable tener experiencia cortés cooperativo puntual independiente trabajador amable etc. -use accurate adjective agreement.

Language: Content Compatible

Learning Strategies / Social and Skills Development:
Students will: -use self-evaluation and reflection to identify personal strength, attributes, abilities and values that will affect the career field/job they choose.

Time Frame:

2 50-minute classes

Materials Needed:

Auto Inventario Planeación para las carreras del siglo XXI

Description of Assessment (Performance Project):

1. As a ìquick startî activity, have students complete the Auto Inventario by circling the 12 adjectives or descriptors that best describe them personally. Students may not be familiar with all of the adjectives on the list so some clarification may be needed. 2. As a class and using the descriptors included in the Auto Inventario, create lists of those adjectives that describe an employee that an employer would want to hire and those adjectives that describe someone an employer would not want to hire. 3. Next, choose a particular job and provide the students with an oral description of two different candidates for the job using the descriptors included in the Auto Inventario. Ask the students to play the role of the employer trying to fill the position. Based on your descriptions, ask students to choose the ìbestî candidate for the job. This can be done numerous times and as a review activity during other lessons. 4. Provide each student with the Planeación para las carreras del siglo XXI. During individual reading/work time, students are to complete the self-evaluation on occupational values and abilities. Upon completion, students should have a basic idea of their strengths and weaknesses, their abilities and the occupational values that are important to them.

Assessment:

Informal assessment of student comprehension occurs in Part 3 of this lesson. Formal assessment of student comprehension can be done as a writing assignment in which students write a short essay in the target language identifying their strengths and abilities that would be attractive to potential employers. Note: The focus should be on the student's positive characteristics to promote self-esteem and self-confidence.

References and Resources:

Cere, Ronald C., Ph.D. (2000). AATSP Career Education Service; 1996-97 Career Handbook pp.12-13. The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Attachments:

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Auto Inventario Planeación para las carreras del siglo XXI

A Lesson from the CoBaLTT Project
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Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
University of Minnesota