Curriculum / CV Creation & Personal Presentation / module 1

Your First Real CV

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The learner mines their real life (projects, ventures, volunteering, skills) and shapes it into an honest, well-formatted one-page CV.

Parent guide (what to say and do)

Start with the inventory exercise: list everything the learner has made, sold, organized, learned, or helped with in the last two years. Homeschoolers usually discover they have more than schooled peers: micro-businesses, presentations, gardens grown, younger children taught. Then structure: contact, one-line profile, experience, skills, education. Rule: every line must be true and provable in conversation.

Learning material

One-page CV template, plain format (platform library)
Inventory worksheet
Ten real CV examples, good and bad, annotated

Practical exercises and activities

Inventory: two-page brain dump of real experiences. Draft and cut: write everything, then cut to one page, learning that cutting is the skill. Exchange: swap CVs with another learner and ask: 'What would you question in an interview?' Live test: hand the CV to an adult who hires people and collect one piece of feedback.

Materials required

A computer with any document editor, or neat handwriting and one photocopy.

Assessment checkpoints

A finished one-page CV where the learner can speak for one minute about any line on it when asked.

Learn with AI

Ready-made prompts for this module. Copy one into your AI assistant and it becomes a patient tutor that follows the OSH method: no lecturing, no rote learning, hands-on activities included.

For the student

A tutor that teaches this module step by step, asks questions, and never just gives answers.

For the parent or teacher

A coach that helps you prepare, deliver, and troubleshoot this lesson.

How to set this up in ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude

ChatGPT: Open ChatGPT → press your profile → My GPTs → Create a GPT → paste the prompt into Instructions → name it after the module → save for repeated lessons. Or simply paste the prompt at the start of a new chat.

Gemini: Open Gemini → Gems panel → New Gem → paste the prompt into the instructions box → name it after the module → save. The Gem stays available for every study session.

Claude: Open Claude → create a Project (or a Skill in Claude Code) → paste the prompt into the project instructions → every conversation in that project becomes a tutoring session for this module.

Safety note: children under 13 should use AI assistants together with a parent, and account age rules of each platform apply.

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