Giving Thanks: KTC students review their interview progress, continue working on their interview responses, and learn the parts of a thank you letter

KTC students just underwent interviews last week with volunteers from the Kent ISD educational services center (ESC), Kent School Services Network (KSSN), Kent Career Technical Center (KCTC), KTC, and D&W Fresh Market.  The students had a great time and really impressed our interviewers.

This week, we hand back their grading sheets so that the students can look them over and see what they did well and what they can improve on.  The students were also told about the comments on the back of the sheets as well from the interviewers to them.  The students thought it was very nice that someone took their time to write specific things for all of our students.

Next, we tried to think about pinpointing what we could mention as a weakness for ourselves and a way we could overcome that obstacle or deal with the problem.  The students thought of 3 weaknesses and 3 solutions and wrote them down on a sheet for both myself and their content area teachers (Early Childhood Careers, Automotive, etc) could see.  We have been using the strategy that if you mention a weakness, that you need to add a positive to it such as a strategy for overcoming, dealing with, or improving that weakness.

Lastly, the students had taken a pre-test on the parts of a thank you letter, now they would be diagramming it out, labeling the parts, and using those notes to compose a thank you letter for their interviewers next week and help them ace their post-tests.