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Subject

English Language Arts (2005)

Assessment

• Student job description is assessed on the basis of content, grammar and spelling.
• Student verbal presentations are assessed on the basis of teacher-developed rubric.

Author

John D. Caminiti, Career and Technical Education, Broome-Delaware-Tioga BOCES, Binghamton.

Duration

1–2 days

Essential Question

Who am I as a worker in the 21st century?

Description

Objectives:

• Students will research criteria for hiring a “leader” from the perspective of an employer.
• Students compare and contrast their findings by evaluating whether they possess the attributes of a leader.

Activity:

• Students are presented with a role-play situation in which the management of a successful design organization needs to hire a “team leader” to see a crucial project through to completion. Additionally, the potential team leader will be required to assist the organization in maintaining positive growth in the 21st century.
• Students compile a list of attributes that would be critical for the team leader position.
• Students work in teams to create a job description for the team leader position. The teacher discusses the components of a job description and provides examples of existing job descriptions to use as models. The criteria for the job description must be based on the identified list of attributes.
• Upon completion of the job descriptions, students identify how to develop skills to fit the criteria in the job description.
• Students make a brief (two- to three-minute) verbal presentation of their findings.

Materials / Resources

• Copies of job descriptions
• Computer with Internet access
• Trade publications
• Local and national newspapers

Comments / Modifications

This lesson is valuable to students because it allows them to view a work-based situation from a different perspective. Also, it creates opportunity for self-examination and reflection following objective analysis.

Source

Caminiti, John. “We Need to Hire a Leader.” In Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. New York State Department of Education, 154.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

CDOS.C.1.1.B Students apply decision-making skills in the selection of a career option of strong personal interest.

CDOS.C.1.1.C Students analyze skills and abilities required in a career option and relate them to their own skills and abilities.

CDOS.C.2.1.A Students demonstrate the integration and application of academic and occupational skills in their school learning, work, and personal lives.

CDOS.C.2.1.C Students research, interpret, analyze, and evaluate information and experiences as related to academic knowledge and technical skills when completing a career plan.

CDOS.C.3a.BS.1.A Students use a combination of techniques to read or listen to complex information and analyze what they hear or read; convey information confidently and coherently in written or oral form; and analyze and solve mathematical problems requiring use of multiple computational skills.

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