Leadership Summit

We have been learning all about leadership in Room24! Now it is time for our second annual Leadership Summit on December 5th from 10:00 to 11:30.

The Leadership Summit is a chance for fourth graders to reflect on what it means to be a leader. They will be reflecting on these four questions:

1. What qualities to leaders have?
2. What problems exist in my school or community that could be solved if I were a leader?
3. What obstacles stand in my way that prevent me from being a leader?
4. What goals can I set for myself to get past these obstacles?

Here are the slides we will be looking at on Friday. Embeddable from WizIq:



We need your involvement! Here's how:
We will present the answers to these questions on December 5th in three ways. First, we will publish them on this blog. The questions will be posted and students will be commenting. You can comment too. Second, we will Tweet them (follow room24). What is Twitter? It is a way for students to respond online through 140 character "micro-blogs". We will also invite anyone to join us in a live conversation via WiziQ where participants can address these questions themselves, thinking about themselves when they were young, giving advice to Room24 or sharing a story of a great student leader. Sign up for this free session here.

We look forward to sharing all that we have learned.

Room 24

Leadership Conference, Question #1

In Room24 we are finishing up a unit about leadership entitled Follow My Lead. (Information on our Leadership Conference here.) Students are working on answering four questions in the process of developing leadership skills. Each of the four questions is a separate post.

Room24 students: sign in and answer the questions as a comment, or ask a new question that comes to mind.

Visitors: Please answer the questions yourself, ask a question of my students or provide a comment rich with sage advice which will guide these young people down the path of leadership (no pressure).


Our first question is this: What is leadership? What qualities do I already have that are similar to that of great leaders?

Here's our discussion about the definition of
leadership:

Leadership Conference, Question #2

(Find information on our Leadership Conference here.)

Question #2 is: What problems exist in our school, community or world that require great leadership?

Leadership Conference, Question #3

(Information about our leadership conference is here.)

Here is question #3: What obstacles stand in my way from becoming a great leader?

Leadership Conference, Question #4

(Information about our leadership conference is here).

Our fourth question about leadership is: What goals should I set for myself to become a leader?




Here's a screenshot of our discussion, goals on the left, first steps on the right: