Leadership - You can learn to be a leader!

Watching Arianne’s video helped students bridge their learning about Classroom Champions topics.  Arianne summarized how Goal Setting, Fair Play, Community, Perseverance and Friendship contributed to making students leaders.  Here is our summary of her video:

Arianne believes anyone can become a good leader. She thinks leadership takes practice. She thinks the following traits encourage good leadership.
1.	Respect others	Build others up. Showing others respect will give you respect in return.
2.	Good Moral compass	Know the difference between right and wrong. Have the courage to stand up for what is right even when it is really hard. Courage can inspire others and have a positive effect on a community.
3.	Lead by Example	Don’t just “talk the talk” also “walk the walk”. When you follow your own advice people know you mean what you say.
4.	Goal setting	Plan ahead and set goals
5.	Communicate	Make sure you listen to others and make yourself understood.
6.	Perseverance	Show passion for your long term and short term goals
7.	Be Authentic	Be true to yourself
Challenges: Write down a list of traits that make you a good leader.  How can you use these traits to be a good buddy reader?

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly." - Jim Rohn

We charted our thoughts about “What Good Leaders DO” verses “What Good Leaders DO NOT do.”

We had been studying leadership in Social Studies so Arianne’s challenge worked perfectly with our topic of study.  We talked about elected leaders at the federal level, the provincial level and the municipal level in Canada, Alberta and the county of Grande Prairie.  We talked about leadership at the school level and we talked about how volunteers can be leaders.

Our school will be split next year.

Volunteers are working to provide playground equipment for the new school.  The parents of the students in our room set a good example to explain how volunteers can improve the quality of life for a community.  

We also talked about +Arianne Jones and how she sets a good example, as a volunteer, to make our Classroom Champions community better. She showed us how giving back to the community builds leadership. (We also loved learning about her sled and how important the sled shop is).

Next we talked about how grade three students could be good leaders for their Kindergarten reading buddies. Most students agreed that being good role models was the most important way they could influence their buddies learning.  

Learning about leadership has helped students understand they can learn skills that will help them throughout their lifetime.  They know that they can empower themselves towards success and contribute positively to their communities and cultures. That's why I love Classroom Champions.  It brings hope and a skill set to make dreams a reality.

Curriculum Objectives:

Social Studies

3.2.1 - appreciate elements of global citizenship:  

• recognize how their actions might affect people elsewhere in the world and how the actions of others might affect them 

3.2.2 - explore the concept of global citizenship by reflecting upon the following questions for inquiry:

• In what ways can individuals and groups contribute to positive change in the world?

Health

Volunteerism

Students will:
L-3.7 assess how individual contributions can have a positive influence upon the family, school and community
L-3.8 select and perform volunteer tasks as a class or as a group