Powerful Learning (Part 2) - Digital Story

THE STORY:  Four students  have been in their career “hang-ups” and bumps when they lost their jobs.  But they have decided to go back to school hoping to “un-slump” themselves as they acquire more work skills needed to find another job.

The teacher partnered with her students to make their stories happen by teaching them how to explore and research occupational information and get the skills required for job searching.

In this 12-week course, we focused on one topic particularly the Interviewing Strategies to illustrate an integrated learning framework called cognitive apprenticeship.  To complete this course, the students completed a mock job interview with an actual HR representative from a local staffing company.

THE ISSUE:  Before they took this course, these students had been going to real job interviews. Unfortunately, they did not receive any requests for a second interview.  It will be very helpful during this course for these students to get feedback from a professional interviewer from the real job world.   
 
THE TWIST:  This course has been revised to give more real-world opportunities to students.  Every student has to call the HR representative to make an appointment for the mock job interview which will take place at the interviewer’s office.  The interview questions are based on the job position the student desires to pursue.  Now these students can identify what works in the real world and what needs to be fine-tuned.

The use of cognitive apprenticeship was an effective instructional paradigm for this learning environment.  To further understand this framework, let us consider the following four dimensions that constitute any learning environment: content, method, sequence, and sociology.

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Thank you ...

•  Amir Hirelowitz for giving me permission to use the animation in this project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_2muj6fxpc

• Joni Rosema, M-TEC Career Services Coordinator, for letting me join your class
• Jason, Anita, Shannon, Jing  - Career Success students
• Val Putnam, M-TEC Director, for all the books and other relevant  resources 

 
This video was created for my digital story project in CEP 800, MSU-MAET, Spring 2012. I have no intention of violating any copyright laws.