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TEACHING TIPS: Raising awareness and developing students' leadership
Checklist for designing leadership activities for the classroom
Before you introduce any activities into the classroom, ask yourself the following questions:
| When designing leadership activities for students | ||
|---|---|---|
| Have I thought about...... | Yes | No |
| Which activity I should use and why? | ||
| Whether I can meet the learning objectives of this course with this group of students with this activity? | ||
| Which activities are most likely to engage the students? | ||
| How I will lead them into unfamiliar territory? | ||
| Where the activity fits in the development sequence? | ||
| What pace is appropriate and what the time constraints are? | ||
| What I want students to take away from the activity? | ||
| Whether the activity should be followed up with a formal assessment of individual or group capabilities? | ||
| What I will need for the activity and how long it will take me to prepare? | ||
| Whether the physical space will be appropriate for the activity? | ||
| Whether my instructions will be foolproof? | ||
| Testing the activity with some colleagues first? | ||
| Whether the students will react in unexpected ways? | ||
| Looking at what actually occurred during the activity? | ||
| Examining the meaning of what happened and the interpretations that can legitimately be drawn from the experience? | ||
| How I will debrief the students after the activity? | ||
| How I will get the students to reflect meaningfully on the experience? | ||
Adapted from: Kaagan. S.S. (1999). Leadership Games: Experiential Learning for Organizational Development. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, pp. 18-23
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