Wednesday, April 8, 2009

April 5 session

In this week's session of LTI the focus was on improving interviewing skills and raising awareness of world hunger.

The first featured event of this session was a mock interview where students got a chance to practice their interviewing skills. Afterwards, students participated in an activity that demonstrated poverty and world hunger. In this activity, the classroom was divided in two, and half of the students were placed into the "upper class" side of the classroom, while the other students were placed into the "lower class" side of the classroom. Waiters at a fancy restaurant served the students placed into the "upper class" side, while the students in the "lower class" side had to share a bowl of rice. In the end, the students of the "upper class" tried to persuade the guard to let the students from the "lower class" migrate the "upper class" side of the classroom. After the activity, a discussion about poverty and world hunger took place.

Finally, after the lunch break, the students ended the day by comparing and contrasting masculine interviewing skills with feminine interviewing skills. In addition to a discussion, this activity required the students to demonstrating their interviewing style to the entire group.

1 comment:

Mikaella said...

Why are the two topics presented on the same day - they don't seem related at all. Shouldn't each session build on the previous one?