Conclusion of Final Speeches!

Q:  What would you like to say to your parents about what you've learned in the this class?

• Humor!
• Turn in Journals (begin May 1-today)
• Final presentations

Continue with Final Speech

Q: Do you believe in "fate" or in "independent will"?  Explain.

• Continue with final speech... (remember, it's a summative grade)
• Journals due tomorrow!!!

Begin Final Speeches!

Q:  What do you think "re-think reality" means?

• Current events
• Begin speeches

Prepare for Final Speech!

Q: Why is it important for a leader to take a proactive view toward life?

• Good things!
• Prepare for speech #9: "How I Plan to Make a Difference in My Life" or "What I Want My Life to Stand For"
• Sign up for presentation
• Special if time: "Tying a Tie"

Visioning (concl.)

Q: "People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Humor!
• Visioning
• Visioning statement in-class assignment

Stay focused: 7.5 days left!

Visioning (cont.)

Q: “The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.” - Helen Keller

• Discussion of writing assignment
• Looking at our vision for our lives
• Getting a plan

Visioning (cont.)

Q: What can we do to prepare for our future?

• Current events
• Continue with questions from previous day (turn in at end of class)

Visioning (cont.)

Q: What do you think we mean by: "Your vision determines your destination"?  Explain.

• What Leaders See (p. 93)
• Story of a leader's vision...
• Writing assignment:
• Where are you headed with your life?
• What is your vision for your life?
• for your family?
• for you community?
• for your state?
• for your country?
• for your world?

Introduction to Visioning

Q: Where are you going? (No other explanation will be given.)

• Good things!
• Business
• Introduction to visioning (p. 93--What Leaders See)

Speech #8 (concl.)

Q: Why is it important for a leader to create a safe environment for others?

• Humor!
• Complete speeches
• Begin the discussion of visioning

Speech #8 (cont.)

Q: Why are healthy family relationships important to a leader?

• Continue with speeches on "Something I've Learned in Teen Leadership" or "Something I'm Going to Change Because of Teen Leadership"

Speech #8

Q: Why is it important to learn how family relationships work?

• Current events!
• Speech #8

Family Dynamics (cont.)

Q: Describe a situation where you needed to ask forgiveness of another person.

• Continue with examples of the Circumplex Model's quadrants
• Note writing
• Speech topic: "Something I Learned in Teen Leadership" OR "Something I'm Going to Change Because of Teen Leadership"

Family Dynamics

Q: Do you have a need to be right?  How should a person personally deal with this?

• Good things!
• Circumplex Model
• Telephone Example
• Plot your familiy
• Prepare examples of these variations

Relationship Bank Account (cont.)

Q: What do you think is the biggest problem using sports to teach leadership?

• Continue with Hoosiers (3rd Period)
• Watch the conclusion of Hoosiers (7th Period)

Relationship Bank Account (cont.)

Q: Have you ever known a person not selected for something they applied to?  What do you say to such a person?

• Continue with Hoosiers

Relationship Bank Account (cont.)

Q: Why does the Coach insist on passing the ball four times before shooting?

• Continue with film Hoosiers

Relationship Bank Account (cont.)

Q: Describe a time when you let someone down.

• Good things!
• The Relationship Bank Account (RBA)
• Application: Hoosiers

Family and Personal Relationships (cont.)

Q: "Silence is the source of great strength." - Lao Tzu

Target: Improve our listening skills.

• Humor!
• Review of four ways to improve the quality of relationships.
• Exercise: Drawing

Have a great weekend!

Family & Personal Relationships

Q: What is the number one thing you can do to improve most any relationship?

• Discussion of contract entries
• Demonstration
• The Relationship Bank Account
• Other aspects to improve the quality of relationships...

Presentations (concl.) & Begin Relationships

Q: Why is letter writing a good habit for a leader?

• Conclude presentations
• Begin Relationship Unit
• Discussion
• Teen Leadership Marriage and Family Contract

Presentations (cont.)

Q: "I once complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet." - Anonymous (proverb but origin unknown)

Target: Sharing our struggles with one another (empathy).

• Continue with presentations

Speech on a "Difficult Victory"

Q: What was the greatest thing you have ever done on a team or in a group?
 Target: Enlarge our appreciation of our humanity.

• Discuss provision of Social Contract
• Begin presentation of "A Difficult Victory"

Speech Preparation

Q: Complete this sentence: "I need to become more responsible in the area of ________."

TARGET:  Preparing for upcoming presentations.

• Humor!
• Letter writing
• Preparing a speech

NOTE: Progress reports due:  If you have incomplete work, they will be reflected as "0's".

Accepting Responsibility (cont.)

Q: Scenario: You have arranged an evening with a friend, but on the day preceding your date, a special opportunity arises to do something much more exciting.  How do you handle the situation?

Target: Think how the Seven Decisions may apply in your life.

• Quiz over film, The Seven Decisions
• Discussion of film following quiz
• Letter writing

Accepting Responsibility (cont.)

Q: Fill in the blank: Consequences are not always _______________________.

• Resume: 7 Decisions with Andy Andrews
• Take notes--quiz tomorrow.

See you Thursday!

Accepting Responsibility

Q: What is the last important decision you made?  What was it?

• Ground rules for the video
• Andy Andrews, The Seven Decisions

Consequences

Q: Why is it important for leaders to consider the choices they make?

• Good things!
• Consequences
• "In Loving Memory"
  

Thoughts, Attitudes, and Actions (cont.)

Q: What are "immediate consequences?"  Give an example.

• Humor!
• Game: Thoughts, Attitudes and Actions
• Note writing (if time)

Thoughts, Attitudes, and Actions (cont.)

Q: Why is it so important for leaders to be in control of their thoughts?

Target: Taking greater responsibility for yourself.

• Emotionally healthy people and perception of themselves
• Rational-Emotive Theory example
• Your actions

Thoughts, Attitudes and Actions

Q: Why is it important for a leader to be emotionally healthy?

• Current Events
• Automatic thoughts
• Thought replacement

Lateral Thinking (concl.) and Your Thoughts

Q: If you had to write yourself an affirming letter, what would it say?

• Ugh.  Tax Day.
• Concluding Lateral Thinking (p. 71)
• Begin Lesson 44 (p. 76): Our Thoughts

Lateral Thinking (cont.)

Q: Why do leaders need to be creative or appreciate the creative process?

• Good things!
• Business (sub report)
• Friday's exercise
• Today's exercise

Lateral Thinking (cont.)

Q: What could you do today that could impact the world in a positive way?

• Humor!
• Lateral thinking quiz
• Work with tablemate--turn in at end of class

Have a great weekend!

Lateral Thinking (cont.)

Q:  What is the difference between Lateral Thinking and Brainstorming?

• Lateral thinking examples
• Paradigm shift exercise (workbook)
• Problem solving questions

Lateral Thinking

Q: What are some things you would like to see changed in our community?

• Current events
• Lateral thinking (reading and discussion)
• Examples

Rescuing Skills

Q: Why is it important for a leader to be able to handle inappropriate comments?

• Refusal skills
• Rescuing skills
• Skits!
• Letter writing

Defending Skills (cont.)

Q: Fill in the blank:  "You are responsible for taking care of your physical and ___________ space."

Target: Explore alternative ways of defending yourself and rescuing others.

• Good things!
• Review of inappropriate comments defense
• More defending and refusal skills
• Skits

Defending Skills

Q: Why is it important for a leader to screen the information received from other people?

• Humor!
• Notes
• Screens and hands
• Defending skills

Peer Pressure

Q: Provide an example of positive peer pressure.

• Discussion of three types of peer pressure
• Skits!
• Begin defending skills

Financial Lessons (concl.)

Q: Why is it important for leaders to control how they spend money?

• Simple quiz about money--not for grade
• Real life example of car purchase

Financial Speech (cont.)

Q: “Money often costs too much.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Complete speeches on Money
• Write affirmation notes with remaining time

Financial Speech (cont.)

Q: "The art is not in making money, but in keeping it." - Proverb

Target: Continue presentations related financial lessons learned.

• Good things!
• Continue with presentations

Financial Speech

Q: What do you hold on to enjoy at a later date?

Target: Remembering to follow your opening and closing lines.

• Humor!
• Deliver speech on "An Important Financial Lesson I've Learned" or "What Money Means to Me"

Have a great weekend!!

Speech Preparation

Q: What does the ability to save money have to do with being a leader?

Target: Focus on the most important financial aspect to you.

• Rule of 72 revisited
• Speech topics to choose from: "An Important Financial Lesson I've Learned" or "What Money Means to Me"

Saving

Q: Why are Americans saving less than they used to?

• Current Events
• Saving
• Rule of 72
• How to earn $1M

Budgeting (cont.)

Q: Why is having a budget so important to individuals and families?

• Budgeting exercise (completed)
• Savings

Budgeting

Q: Why is buying home considered an investment when buying a car is not?

Target: Understand the dynamics of making a family budget.

• Good things!
• Buying a home versus renting
• Budgeting Exercise

Budgeting

Q: "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." - Anonymous

• Humor!
• Complete car purchase exercise
• Budgeting

Car Purchase

Q: Do you think Americans are obsessed with automobiles?  Why or why not?

• Computer instructions
• Research on purchasing a car

Debt & Credit (cont.)

Q: What do interpersonal skills have to do with managing money?

• Current events
• Continue discussion of credit cards (examples)
• Student self-description
• Buying a car

Debt and Credit

Q: What does the wise use of credit have to do with being a good leader?

• Good things!
• Business
• Debt and credit

Free Enterprise

Q: How could the way you handle your money show others what your principles are?

• Good things!
• What is "free enterprise"
• Discussion questions
• Competition, Social Services, and True Wealth

HW: Read Lesson 28

Short Test Day!

Q: What is the most useful thing you have learned so far in this course?

• Turn in your Journal
• Test!

Presentations (concl.)

Q: "The deterioration of of every government begins with a decay of the principles on which it was founded." - C. L. de Montesquieu

• Continue presentations
• Test tomorrow!

 Remember: Bring workbooks tomorrow!

Begin Speeches

Q: “Important principles may and must be inflexible.” - Abraham Lincoln.
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”- Former Senator Everett Dirksen

Target: To present something Important to you or a valuable lesson you've learned.

• Instructions for Speech Evaluations
• Begin Speeches

Values, Standards, and Principles

Q: Why is serving others the best motivation for leadership?

• Good things!
• Return papers
• Preparing for speeches
• Write a mission statement based on your principles

Principles

Q: What is our greatest enemy?  What is the greatest obstacle to our success?

• Humor!
•  Principles
• Exercise: 3 Principles

Standards & Principles

Q: What do our words tell us about our values?  What affect do they have on us as leaders?

Target: Know the difference between values, standards, and principles.

• Standards: what are they?
• Principles: what are they?
• Finally, what is the difference?

Write Speech

Q:  If every word you said was recorded, would this change your speech pattern?  How?


Target: Write a speech using good grammar and complete sentences.

• Current Events (be brief)
• Write a speech and turn it in.  Your choice:
• “An Important Lesson I’ve Learned”
• “Something That’s Important to Me and Why”. 
• Update your workbooks for upcoming test (ensure all pages up through Lesson 23 are complete)

Values

Q: What is the most important thing you value?

• Demonstrating our values (Lesson 24)
• Instructions for tomorrow

Note: Test coming up!  Make sure your workbook is up to date through Lesson 23.

Public vs. Private Self

Q: What does the way others see us have to do with our effectiveness as a leader?

• Good things!
• Public vs. private self

Image

Q: Why is it important to speak from your own experience?

Target: Explore the impact of image on your leadership.

• Humor!
• Complete notes on public speaking
• Image

Public Speaking (cont.)

Q: What do you think people fear most?  Why?

Target: Become aware of the impact of public speaking.

• Public speaking example
• Update workbooks

Public Speaking

Q: What qualities do you think are important in a friend?

• Current Events
• Note writing
• Public Speaking example
• Effective communication

Presentations (cont.)

Q: What part of speaking before a class comes most easy to you?

Target: Demonstrate the meaning of a variety of relationships.

• Good things!
• Continue presentation: "A Relationship That's Important to Me and Why"

Important Relationship Speech (cont.)

Q: Why is it important to have a sense of humor as a leader?

Target: Demonstrate the meaning of a variety of relationships.

• Humor!
• "An Important Relationship and Why" speech

Note: Test coming up for units 1-19

Begin Speech on Special Relationships

Q: If you are invited to something special and your best friend is not, what usually happens?

Target: Express the meaning of the importance of relationships.

• Debrief of yesterday's sub work.
• Begin presentations: "A Relationship That's Important to Me and Why"

Special Relationships

Q: What would a person be like who had great social skills but had no empathy for others?

• In your journal, also write pick two other IPOSSESS skills and describe what a person would be like if he/she did not have that skill (identify the skill first)
• Begin writing speech: "A Relationship That's Important to Me and Why"

HW: See you tomorrow--Speeches begin tomorrow!

Eight Cues Application

Q: What is the most expressive part of your body language when meeting someone for the first time?  Why?

• Eight Cues Application
• Wrap up social skills, self-motivation, and rate yourself!
• Instructions for tomorrow

Complete IPOSSESS

Q: Why is self-control important for a leader?

Target: Complete the introduction to the eight elements of emotional intelligence.

• Good things!
• Debrief of the movie using IPOSSESS
• Social Skills and 8 Cues
• Self-Motivation

Application Film (concl.)

Q: Have you ever been told you couldn't do something and you had to prove the other person wrong?  How did it make you feel?

• Humor!
• Complete October Sky

Have a great weekend!!

Application Film (cont.)

Q: Who do you think has shown empathy in the movie so far? (don't share your opinion until asked)

• Briefly discuss the film
• Continue watching October Sky

Application Film

Q: What does empathy have to do with being a good leader?

• Watch October Sky using the note taker
• Be prepared to turn in your note taker at the conclusion of the film.

See you tomorrow!

Empathy Day

Q:  How "contagious" is emotional pain?  What stops the spread?

• Short discussion of self-control
• Empathy Circle

Emotional Intelligence (cont.)

Q: Why is optimism an important quality for a leader?

Target: Become familiar with the self-awareness and self-control aspects of emotional intelligence.

• Good things!
• Business?
• Self-Awareness
• Looking at ourselves

• Self-Control

Tomorrow: Bring an empathy story or tell an empathy story tomorrow.

Emotional Intelligence (cont.)

Q:  How would you rate your speaking ability so far?

Target: Apply the concepts of persistence and optimism.

• Humor!
• Turn in journals
• Role playing
• Persistence and Optimism lecture/discussion

Have a great weekend!!

Emotional Intelligence (cont.)

Q: “We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.” -  Marshall B. Rosenberg
Target: Understand the eight elements of Emotional Intelligence

• Examples of Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Intelligence elements (IPOSSESS)
• Role play of these elements  

Remember, journals are due tomorrow!

A Memorable Experience (cont.)

Q: Why is it important for leaders to evaluate their speaking abilities?

• Share your Memorable Experience
• Begin Emotional Intelligence 

Note: Journals are due on Friday!!

A Memorable Experience

Q: Why are body language and tone of voice so important to leaders?

• Good things!
• Business
• Exercise: Toilet Paper
• "A Memorable Experience"

Impressionable Situations

Q: How can you present yourself to others in a way that demonstrates self-confidence?

• Situations (group examples)
• Internal qualities of a leader
• Means of communication

Reframing and First Impressions

Q: Why would you expect to see self-confidence in a strong leader?

• Debrief the Reframing exercise
• Eight Cues to a first impression
• First impressions in a variety of situations

Self Concept Review and Reframing

Q: If you could have a superpower, what would it be?

• Good things!
• Leading the class (instructions)
• Self-concept review
• Reframing and exercise

Self-Concept and Self-Confidence

Q: Why is it important to affirm others?

• Humor!
• Self-Concept formation in three ways...
• Circles of Influence
• Self-Confidence

Goals for the Course Speech (cont.--Short Day)

Q: "You seldom hit anything unless you aim at it." - Anonymous!

• Continue speech: "My Goals for the Course and Two Specific Things I'm Going to Do to Help Me Achieve Them"

Goals for the Course

Q: Describe a time when you feel you made a bad first impression.  Were you able to correct it later?  How?

• Current Events
• Presentation rubric
• Begin Speech: "My Goals for the Course and Two Specific Things I'm Going to Do to Help Me Achieve Them"

Goals for the Course

Q: Think of someone you know who has set goals for his/her life.  How do you know that this person has goals?

• Personal Mastery
• Goals for the course
• Preparing a Speech

Developing Relationships

Q: How is the ability to develop good relationships critical to good leadership?

• Good things!
• Complete Introductory presentations (3rd period only)
• First Impressions
• Developing relationships
• Letter writing (see p. 7)

"About Myself"

Q: What does your attitude have to do with being a leader?

• Humor!
• Instructions about speaking
• Talk about you

Have a great weekend!

Trust Walk

Q: "He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader." - Aristotle 

• Good things!
• Review and sign social contract (3rd Period only)
• Discussion on Attitude

• Exercise: Trust Walk

• Preparing to speak tomorrow!

Social Contract (cont.)

Q: What are the leadership qualities you believe you already possess?

• Name game (reviewed)
• Social contract completed

Social Contract

Q: What does not putting others down have to do with being a good leader?

Good things!
Discussion about social contracts

• Exercise: Formulate a Social Contract

Welcome!

Q: What is the coolest thing (singular) you did over the Christmas break?

• Welcome!
• What is this course all about?
• Exercise: Getting to know each other...
• Classroom procedures