#Driving Learning in The Résumé Project
David Ng
The unit starts by giving the students a little background on résumé writing. Then they create a first draft of their own résumé. Instead of producing a résumé on a sheet of paper, entries are written on individual index cards so that entries can be swapped in and out, and moved around.
The students know how sad their résumés look. They complain that they’re just kids who haven’t had a chance to do anything yet. They think résumé writing in eighth-grade is dumb. This makes me smile inside because I can imagine how shocked they’ll be when they see how compelling their résumés are in the end.
These students have done a lot more in life than they realize; they just need to build a stronger narrative to bring those stories to the forefront.
I select a few students who listed babysitting under experience and conduct a model inter