The Future is Now: Leaders in Nunavik

The Future is Now

This month went by so fast! Wow! We started out the month going over vocab that we would need for Jesse's video. We watched it, and talked about what he meant, and how it related to us. We also made some posters to cheer Jesse on in his race!

Then we started working on our challenge. This was a big one because we really needed to understand what qualities we thought a leader should have before we tried to figure out how we could be better leaders (disclaimer: we are not finished yet!!) 

We started out by watching some videos (Go Kid President!) about the qualities other people thought leaders should have. We also looked at some quotes from everyday leaders about what a leader is. 

Then we did a team building activity. We talked about how leaders are a part of their team, not at the top, but in the middle, and we made teams and did a building challenge. The students had to build a basketball tower out of newspaper and tape (and  few magazines when we ran out) that was at least 50 cm tall.

Then we had a hiatus from school and participated in our second Culture Week of the year. The kids learned how to skin a fox, cut snow blocks, make ice fishing rods, and sew mittens. 

This week we looked at the difference between bosses and leaders. We started off  by looking at this picture:

We talked about why the bottom picture was a leader and the top a boss, and how all the people felt with their job. 

 I printed off a number of actions that a leader or a boss would do. We worked hard to find the phrases that were opposites like show and tell (can you guess which is the leadership quality?) Then we made a chart (that was too small-my bad) that showed the differences between the two.

So the next step is to finish Jesse's challenge to write don three things that we can improve on to be better leaders. I am excited to do this with my students because I want to be a better leader too! I will post a follow up. 

The future is now, and these guys are already leaders in their community. I love to remind them that they are mentors and leaders every day, and everything they do either makes them a better leader, or not. These kids are going to go far and do great things!