Transcript Resume Writing

Linda Prince
West Valley High School
June 29, 2001
CTAP 295 Teaching With Technology
Final Presentation
Resume Writing
Introduction
 I am a Business Teacher at West Valley High School in
Cottonwood.
 E-mail address: [email protected]
 Web site: http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~lprince
This lesson is designed to be used in an ROP
Computer Technology class made up of juniors
and seniors. As part of an employment unit,
students will research resume styles, identify
their own skills and abilities, and write a resume
that can be used for a job search or a resume
contest held in the spring.
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Teacher Expectations
 Create a lesson to be used in
my class
 Learn how to use a program to
design a web site
 Post the lesson on the web site
 Use PowerPoint to make a
presentation
 Work hard to get all requirements finished in three weeks.
 Meet and work with a variety
of people
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Teacher Outcome
 Identified teaching standards to be addressed in lesson
and designed a rubric for grading culminating project
 Created web page in Netscape Composer
Linked pages, web site addresses, e-mail
Added tables, charts, graphics
Downloaded and uploaded web page file
 Used Excel to create a grade spreadsheet
Created pivot table
Copied and pasted charts into web page
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Student Success
 Interested in a project
about themselves and a
desire to discover their
skills and abilities
 Excitement about
preparing a document that
will be used to obtain a
job
 Use of Microsoft Word to
prepare documents.
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Student Success Continued
 Pride in their final draft
 Excitement about entering their resume in EDD resume
contest.
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Shortcomings For Students
 Resumes have been prepared
before for other classes, so a
few students were not eager to
redo their resume.
 They didn’t like researching
different types of resumes on
the Internet.
 Some students found it
difficult to assess their skills
and abilities with no job
experience.
 Frustration with having to do
many drafts before final
printout.
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The resume was the culminating activity. It was worth 64 points; and as you
can see from the following table, a majority of the students were very
successful.
Resume Final Grade
Student 15
Student 14
Student 13
Student 12
Student
Student 11
Student 10
Student 9
Student 8
64 Points Possible
Student 7
Student 6
Student 5
Student 4
Student 3
Student 2
Student 1
0
10
20
30
40
Score
50
60
70
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Score
Male/Female
Assignment Comparison Scores
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Female
Male
A v e ra ge o f
P re t e s t ( no t
pa rt o f t o t a l)
A v e ra ge o f
S e lf A s s e s s m e nt
(10)
A v e ra ge o f
D o 's & D o n’ t s
T a ble ( 1 0 )
A v e ra ge o f
R e s um e
Wo rk s he e t
(10)
A v e ra ge o f
R e s um e ( 6 4 )
A v e ra ge o f
P o st T est
(16)
F
Assignments
The above table is a comparison of male/female
results. It shows that their scores were very close.
The females did slightly better.
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This charts shows that students were able to score higher on their posttest due to the research and activities performed in this lesson.
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Teacher Revisions
The rubric was too lengthy. It was a little difficult
to grade resumes using this rubric, so I will be
editing this rubric to make it easier to use. I
currently have too many criteria rows on the rubric
so some may have to be eliminated or consolidated
with other criteria.
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Lesson Revisions
Lesson
Suggested Revision
Rubric
Have less criteria to score
Resume Worksheet
Students should turn this in to
teacher first before typing
resume to check data
Have students find and print 2
examples of each style of
resume instead of 1.
Resume search
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Conclusion
 I have learned a lot in this class. At first I was a little
overwhelmed at how I was going to get this done in three
weeks but it all came together.
 Every year I do teach how to write a resume, but I am glad
that I have a web site on this important subject. By having
the students do research on the Internet and find examples
of resumes, they have a better idea of what is expected of
them.
 Having made the rubric is also a great help in that students
know exactly what I will be looking for when I grade their
resumes.
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I’m finished!
I am really glad I took this
class.
The students did a great
job on their resumes and
were really excited about the
resume contest. Some
students asked me every day
if I had gotten back the
results.
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