5.1 Job Applications (PowerPoint)
This is Lesson One (“Job Applications”) of the National FFA Organization’s Unit 5: Employment Skills. Students analyze the information required on a job application by reviewing and correcting a completed example, then practice completing their own application correctly using a provided practice form and grading rubric.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Analyze information required on a job application.
- Demonstrate how to complete an application correctly.
- Time required
- 90 minutes
- Materials
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- “Job Applications” PowerPoint
- A copy of the “Example Job Application” for each group or student
- A copy of the “Practice Job Application” for each student
- Red pens or highlighters for correcting applications
- Blue or black pens for filling out applications
- A copy of the “Application Grading Rubric” for each student (if leveling up)
- Access to AgExplorer (if leveling up)
- Previous Knowledge Recommended for This Lesson
- None
- Resources
- AgExplorer — Plant Systems, https://agexplorer.ffa.org/focus/plant-systems
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Communication; Flexibility and Adaptability; Initiative and Self-direction; Leadership and Responsibility
- Unit
- Unit 5: Employment Skills
- Created
- 05/2017 by the National FFA Organization
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Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
- CRP.02Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. Career-ready individuals readily access and use the knowledge and skills acquired through experience and education to be more productive.
- CRP.04Communicate clearly, effectively, and with reason. Career-ready individuals communicate thoughts, ideas and action plans with clarity, whether using written, verbal and/or visual methods.
- CRP.10Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals. Career-ready individuals take personal ownership of their own educational and career goals, and they regularly act on a plan to attain these goals.
- CRP.11Use technology to enhance productivity. Career-ready individuals find and maximize the productive value of existing and new technology to accomplish workplace tasks and solve workplace problems.
AFNR Cluster Skills
- CS.05Describe career opportunities and means to achieve those opportunities in each of the Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources career pathways.
Common Career Technical Core
- AG5Describe career opportunities and means to achieve those opportunities in each of the Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources Career Pathways.
Common Core – Literacy in Science & Technical Subjects: Writing
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.6Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9.10.4Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Common Core – Math Practices
Common Core – Reading: Informational Text
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
FFA Precept
- FFA.CS-MCommunication: Effectively interact with others in personal and professional settings.
- FFA.CS-NDecision Making: Analyze a situation and execute an appropriate course of action.
- FFA.PG-IProfessional Growth: Assume responsibility for attaining and improving upon the skills needed for career success.
- FFA.PL-AAction: Assume responsibility and take the necessary steps to achieve the desired results, no matter what the goal or task at hand.
- FFA.PL-CVision: Visualize the future and how to get there.
- FFA.PL-EAwareness: Understand personal vision, mission and goals.
NASDCTEc
- AGC09.02Select, research and examine critical aspects of career opportunities in one or more AFNR career pathways in order to gain an understanding of the breadth of occupations within this cluster.