Welcome to Teen Leadership!!!!!!

 

You are in for an AWESOME experience.  I am Mrs. Shomer and this is my first year to teach Teen Leadership at ACMS.  I am excited about the bonds we will create together this year and all the fun we are going to have.  A few details about our year together are as follows:

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

 

The goals of Teen Leadership are to provide middle school students with lifelong skills that will help them to adapt to the ever changing world. They will learn self-awareness, self-control, motivation, and personal responsibility as well as leadership, professional, business, and social skills. Students will also learn public speaking skills and techniques on dealing with pressure.

This course has been developed by the M.B. (Flip) Flippen group and is being taught around the world in both education and business formats.

 

 

COURSE GRADING

 

40% Speech outlines and Journal entries

60% Course questionnaires, Affirmations, Workbook & Notes, Daily Activities, Conduct

 

**Journal entries need to be at least 2 complete sentences. Grades are given for completeness and on topic writing.

**Daily activity grades are given for role-play participation, group discussion, weekly group leading & greeting and for affirmation writing.

** Conduct grade: Your conduct is related to how well you follow the rules of the class and the teacher instructions. If you have to be redirected to complete an assignment it will be noted for your conduct grade. Accountability is important for learning to be a good leader and following rules and directions is critical to leadership.

 

All work must be made up when an absence occurs including journal writing. You need to get the journal prompt from a class member and write the journal entry and get any notes that you missed.

Speeches take 2-3 days to complete and if an absence occurs prior to the start of the speech days, you will be given a 2 day grace to do your speech unless we are at the end of a grading cycle. If absence occurs during speech days, you need to be prepared to give speech upon your return.

 

*****This classroom is a NO CELL PHONE ZONE!!!******

 

 

 

 

COURSE OUTLINE/TOPICS

 

Attitude, Developing relationships, Self-concept, Self-confidence, Image, Speaking, Values/Standards/Principles, Personal responsibility, Listening and Affirming skills

 

 

SPEECH TOPICS

 

· About Myself (Introduction speech) · My Goals for the Semester and Two Specific Things I’m Going to do to Help Me Achieve Them · A Memorable Experience · A Relationship That’s Important to Me and Why · A Principle I Want to Live My Life By and Why or My Mission Statement/Motto and What It Means to Me · Something I’ve Learned in Teen Leadership or Something I’m Going to Change Because of Teen Leadership

 

All speeches are 1-1 ½ min. long. You will be given a speech outline the day before the speeches begin and usually get about 20 minutes to work on the outline in class. Speech outlines are due the following day for a grade. You are NOT exempt from giving your speech even though an outline may not be done. Speech outlines must have at least 10 topic points in order to get full credit. That means 10 separate bullet items or 10 sentences that you can talk about.

 

 

AFFIRMATIONS

We love them!! They must be two sentences and must be personal and positive and not a comment about a physical trait. We will go over this in much more detail prior to writing these.

 

 

CLASS ROLE

There will be classroom jobs assigned and will rotate through out the year.  We will not begin them immediately.  Your effort shown for your job in the classroom is crucial to the entire classes success!

 

 

CLASS SUPPLIES Pen or Pencil, Planner (Can be a ACMS Planner or other),  AN OPEN AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE!! J

 

I am looking forward to a fantastic year together!!

 

 

 

-Mrs. Shomer