High Leadership Skills Development
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Number of Credits
1
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Estimated Completion Time
2 Semesters
Description
In this course, you’ll learn the leadership skills needed to be successful in all areas of your personal, academic, and professional life. You’ll learn the skills to approach problem-solving, decision-making, time management, and goal setting to manage the challenges of day-to-day life, challenging courses, and responsibilities at work more effectively. You’ll also explore the skills needed for approaching public speaking, relationships, organizational management, and team building to better prepare you for whatever professional role you choose in the future. This course prepares students to be leaders in whatever future path they choose for themselves.
Follow the link below for the Department of Education description for this course:
https://www.cpalms.org/PreviewCourse/Preview/22224
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.
Courses subject to availability.
Pursuant to s. 1002.20, F.S.; A public school student whose parent makes written request to the school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with the provisions of s. 1003.42(3). Learn more about the process and which courses contain subject matter where an exemption request can be made.
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