Teaching Life Skills And Culture Through A Second Language At GPS Monday, March 8, 2021
Dr. Erin Montero’s Spanish IV classes at GPS explored the question, what do you want to do when you grow up? Most students ditched their uniforms in favor of more traditional business attire as they sat for mock job interviews conducted entirely in Spanish.
Dr. Montero said, “This unit built on girls’ existing skills in interpersonal and presentational speaking, presentational writing, and interpretive listening and reading. It also taught them about some cultural differences between the interview process in Spanish-speaking communities and their own communities.”
Following a career readiness survey, students reviewed authentic Spanish résumés from which they then modeled their own. They also watched interview scenes from the telenovela La fea más bella (México) and the short film Recursos Humanos (Spain) and compared them to their own interview experiences in the past.