Leadership

For this unit, students will begin to gain an understanding of Leadership - both personal leadership and that of others in their lives. In order to understand leadership, we will be looking at our own personalities and leadership styles and the leadership styles of others in our lives. Ultimately students will be required to submit a 5-7 page paper on their own personal leadership style, their leadership development and where they find leadership in their lives.

In order to build to this point, students will have assignments along the way that climb towards our goal of a general understanding of leadership in our lives.

To begin, each student will take the following online survey (Project Entry Event) to gain an understanding of their own leadership style. Students can find the online survey here: [|Myers-Briggs Personality Test]

To begin discussion on the results of this personality test, students will use [|Voice Thread]. Each student will be required to post a voice thread discussing the results of their individual test - posts should include personality type, strengths and weaknesses of this personality type and whether or not you agree with these as accurate strengths and weaknesses in your life. Students should also respond to at least two other voice thread's in order to provide affirmation of strengths, NOT to provide weaknesses of other students. Voice Thread example can be found below.

An important piece of being a strong leader, is the desire to continually develop. In order to continually develop, we must learn from situation we are in (from both successes and failures). Before writing our paper, we must reflect on the events in our lives that have shaped us a leader. Students will use [|Time Toast]in order to create a 10+ event timeline of leadership benchmarks in their lives. We should include examples of lessons learned, leadership successes and leadership failures within our timeline. We should also provide details of each event to provide clarity. Time Toast example can be found below.

In order to begin to reflect upon how others leadership styles have effected our lives, each student will be required to create a 2-4 minute animation video which discusses a specific leader in our lives and what characteristics make them a strong leader. Each video should include 3-5 leadership characteristics held by this person and the reasons why these characteristics are important. In order to create this animation, students will use [|Go! Animate]. Example can be found below.

Using the knowledge gathered from the above assignments, we will accumulate our information to write a Personal Leadership Inventory paper - which will include a breakdown of our own leadership and the ways others have effected our leadership abilities.

Creation Tool Examples: Podcast (Voice Thread) - Voice Thread - Example Timeline (Time Toast) - [|Time Toast Example] Animation (Go! Animate) - [|Go! Animate Example]

Students will post their final project (including the lead up assignments) to WikiSpaces. Each student will be required to post the work here and to reflect upon the submissions of at least two other students.

Rubric can be found here: