Career Guidance WA Grades 6-8 College Bound Scholarship s4

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LEARNING GOALS/OUTCOMES

► Strengthen the perception students’ have of themselves as leaders. ► Identify their own leadership qualities. ► Describe strategies for becoming a leader.

MATERIALS NEEDED

► Computer with access to internet and projection capabilities to display the “Dancing Guy” video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=MgNaozZkwCQ). Note: This video does not have any narration – it is just a visual representation of how people follow the leader, even across the world. ► Chart paper or board ► Markers

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

1. Ask the students to think about what they know about leadership and its many traits. Share with the students that the lesson today is going to be about using strategies to be a leader, especially the leadership skills needed to seek additional education beyond high school.

2. Share with students they are going to watch a video about a man dancing. Ask the students to pay attention to the leadership strategies used in the video.

3. Show the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgNaozZkwCQ

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4. After the video is complete, ask the students to share the leadership strategies they noticed. Make a list on chart paper or board of what students saw. Hopefully, they will identify that:

Main Dancing Guy (Matt Harding): – Did something different – challenged the process – Was bold, took risks, and he didn’t seem to care what others thought – Inspired a new vision of how the spaces and places in the video could be utilized – Not only about him anymore but something bigger – Enabled the crowd to act – empowered them to make the dance their own – The first to model the dance – Showed the others his dancing technique and saw them as equals

Other dancers: – Transformed the 1st dancer into a leader – Showed courage to join in – Showed others how to follow – Followed and learned from the 1st dancer

5. Lead the students in a more personal discussion. Explain to the student that going to college is risky and it takes courage. Talk about where they have been leaders in their life and where/how they can continue to act as leaders in high school to prepare themselves to be leaders throughout life.

STUDENT PRODUCTS

► None

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The Career Guidance Washington Lessons by OSPI are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.