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LESSON PLAN FOR FILLING OUT A JOB APPLICATION
Preview: Have students complete a Personal Data Sheet three days before the Job
Application Lesson.
Essential Question: How do you fill out a job application correctly?
Time Needed: 2 hours
Activating Strategy: To determine prior knowledge of filling out a job application
correctly.
Materials needed:
A completed sample incorrect job application for each student.
Highlighter pens, one for each group
Pencil for each student
Blank Job Application
Hand out a sample incorrect job application to each student. Give a highlighter pen to
each group. Each student will need a pencil.
Ask the students, "Would you hire this person? How many errors do you think the
sample application contains?" Give the groups approximately 2 minutes to estimate the
number of errors and write the number on the board by the group number. They may
use the highlighter pen to mark the errors. The group that finds the correct number of
errors will win a prize after the acquisition lesson.
Briefly discuss students' prior history in filling out a job application.
Next:
o Have the students divide into small groups.
o Instruct the group to look over the incorrect job application and identify and
circle all errors on the application.
o Count the number of errors that the students found
o Teacher will walk around and listen to groups and guide them as necessary.
o Teacher will ask for a report for the student’s number of errors. Goal: see which
group discovered the most errors. (Prizes may be given)
Acquisition Lesson: Students will learn how to fill out a job application correctly.
Materials and equipment needed:
Overhead Projector and a transparency of a job application and a different color
overhead pen for each group or an Elmo with paper copies of a job application for
each group and a black ink pen.