High Leadership Skills Development

Segment One:

• Seeking change
• Understanding civic participation
• Recognizing civic responsibilities
• Running for office/leadership position
• Identifying the issues
• Prioritizing tasks
• Increasing voter turnout
• Determining leadership style
• Getting to know your team
• Delegating responsibilities
• Setting the stage for success
• Building consensus
• Establishing goal and milestones
• Determining budget
• Evaluating effectiveness of a program
• Building on success

Segment Two:

• Managing change
• Recognizing conflict
• Clarifying the source of conflict
• Listening actively
• Managing and resolving conflict
• Building on strengths
• Identifying areas for improvement
• Cooperating with others
• Inspiring others
• Leading vs managing
• Making healthy decisions
• Taking care of yourself and others
• Communicating effectively
• Presenting information
• Speaking publicly

 

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***

***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When a proctored exam is administered to assess a student’s integrity, the student must pass the exam with at least a 59.5% to earn credit for the course.

To achieve success, students are expected to submit work in each course weekly. Students can learn at their own pace; however, “any pace” still means that students must make progress in the course every week. To measure learning, students complete self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, projects, discussion-based assessments, and discussions. Students are expected to maintain regular contact with teachers; the minimum requirement is monthly. When teachers, students, and parents work together, students are successful.