FCCLA Lesson Plan: Interviewing Skills
Topic: Integrating the Skill Demonstration Event: Interviewing Skills
Grade Level: 8-12
Timeframe: 3.5 Hours
FCCLA National Program(s) Integration:
Career Connection
Power of One
FCCLA STAR Event Integration:
Interviewing Skills – Skill Demonstration Event
Learning Objectives:
This lesson is designed to utilize resources from the Interviewing Skills, Skill Demonstration Event as
students learn Real World Skills. If students decide to use this for competitions, add in the "extra" Skill
Demonstration Event requirements. If students do well in the assignment, encourage them to compete.
National FCS Standards:
1.0 Career, Community and Family Connections
2.0 Consumer and Family Resources
13.0 Interpersonal Communications
Materials Needed:
Interviewing Skills Specifications
Interviewing Skills Rubric
State Specific Education Posting Sites
*All materials are available for download in the most recent competitive events guide in the FCCLA
Portal.
Activity 1: Apply for a Job
Activity 1 Timeframe: 30 Mins
Activity 1 Materials Needed: Job posting websites, education specific job search sites, use the State
Specific Education Posting Sites document as a resource.
Directions:
Start by demonstrating how to find current Family and Consumer Sciences job posting in your state or
across the country.
Instruct students to each find an FCS position that appeals to them. Have them answer the following
FCCLA Lesson Plan: Interviewing Skills
questions about the positions they find:
Name and location of the school
Full time or part time
Course or courses to be taught
License Requirements
Why you choose this posting
Students will use this posting as the goal for the remainder of the lesson, using their current Family and
Consumer Sciences knowledge and skills, and their current level of education.
Activity 2: Cover Letter and Resume
Activity 2 Timeframe: 120 Mins
Activity 2 Materials: Interviewing Skills Specifications
Directions:
Provide instruction on creating a cover letter and resume
How to Write a Cover Letter: https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/guide/how-to-write-a-cover-letter/
How to Write a Resume: https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/guide/how-to-write-a-resume/
Instruct students to create a cover letter and resume using their current education level that correlates
with the job they are applying for in activity 1.
Use the Interviewing Skills Specifications as a guide to creating the cover letter and resume.
Activity 3: Interview
Activity 3 Timeframe: 60 mins
Activity 3 Materials Needed: Interviewing Skills Specifications
Directions:
Provide instruction on how to prepare for common interview questions:
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/interviewing/teacher-interview-questions
Instruct students to write out 10 common interview questions for a teaching position. Partner students
and have them demonstrate their interview skills in front of the class by using their questions to
interview each other for the job they selected in activity 1.
Assessment:
-Students should turn in all complied assignment pieces from activities 1,2 and 3.
-Use the FCCLA Skill Demonstration Event, interview Skills rubric to establish requirements of the
presentation as well as a grading tool.
Source:
fcclainc.org
