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Leadership
Finding Leadership
What’s the difference between Leadership and Authority? Do you need to be designated 'the leader' in order to lead? Challenge your students' assumptions and help them look for opportunities to make a positive difference.
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Running Time: 34:09
Credit Hours: 1.25
- Lesson Prep for:
Finding Leadership study guide - Recommended for:
Social Studies, Civics, Leadership Programs, Psychology, Violence Prevention
Free
Includes
- 36:35 minute video divided into 9 chapters
- 6 Downloadable study guides for grades
- Desktop and mobile access
- Certificate of Completion
- 1.25 Credit hours towards free CEUs (10 credit hours = 1 CEU)
Interactive Features
- Appropriate for classroom use
- Start and stop any time
- Optional quizzes to qualify for course credits
What Will I Learn?
- How to use JPEF’s Finding Leadership lesson plan to teach one or more 45-60 minute classes that will encourage your students to use critical thinking about leadership and authority
- How to encourage students to see that they do not need to be designated as 'the leader' in order to step up and make a difference
- How Jewish partisans -- most of whom did not set out to lead -- became leader within their own groups
- Ways to help your students differentiate between leadership and authority, to better understand and improve group dynamics
About this Course
| Q: | What is the video course about? |
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| A: | This video course provides teacher tips and step-by-step instructions so you can use JPEF’s Finding Leadership lesson plan right away with your students. Finding Leadership gives students the opportunity to explore the concept of Leadership and Authority in the partisans’ journeys, and how to apply what they learn to their everyday lives. |
| Q: | What resources are included in this video course? The Finding Leadership lesson plan includes activities, cooperative games, worksheets, and discussion questions for analyzing leadership examples in the partisans’ lives. Further activities encourage your students to apply the concepts to help your students take more initiative in their own social and work groups. |
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| Q: | Who is it for? |
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| A: | This is an advanced JPEF E-Learning course. You should be familiar with JPEF's 'Resistance Basics' video course before proceeding. How do these materials support learning? |
| A: | These materials provide the basis for whole class discussion, partner study, written response, research projects, and creative extensions that will expand the way students think about both history and resistance to oppression. The materials are designed to encourage critical thinking skills, including questions about whether you need to be recognized as an ‘authority’ before taking action, and what it takes to function as an effective leader. |
| Q: | What other applications are there for these materials? |
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| A: | Finding Leadership can be taught in history, civics, tolerance, social studies, and Jewish education classes. It is also useful in anti-drug and gang-prevention workshops, and of course, leadership training. English teachers can apply the lesson's core concepts to a range of lesson plans including literary analysis and character studies. |
| Q: | How is the course structured? |
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| A: | This course uses a "do, then teach" model showing how the lesson is used in the classroom, then explaining the theory behind it, as well as suggestions for customizing the lesson. The course is divided into eight chapters, with quizzes at the end of most chapters to test and reinforce comprehension. Teachers who score 80% or more on the quizzes can earn free credit hours and CEUs through Touro College. |
Chapters
- 1. Introduction and Goals (05:11)
- 2. Theory (03:51)
- 3. Activity A: Core Concepts (03:33)
- 4. Activity B: Leading Numbers (02:32)
- 5. Activity C: Profiles in Leadership (06:38)
- 6. Partisan Bios and Report Sheets (07:07)
- 7. Activity D: Team Reports & Wrap-up (01:19)
- 8. How to Use This in the Classroom (02:52)
- 9. Conclusion (03:32)
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Jason McDonald
Jeremy Rosen
rabbi justin schwartz
excellent
Mickie Jacobs
irene swedroe
The lesson plans provided are clear and will assist with my leadership class as well as the continuing teaching of Holocaust Education.
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