Leadership Strategies Honors   (#2400320)

General Notes

The purpose of this course is to provide formative opportunities to build on skills acquired in the Leadership Techniques course, including meetings skills, communication skills, motivational strategies, character development, group dynamics, community relations, data collection for project needs, evaluation of community organizations, purpose of local government, community service and personal and civic responsibility.

The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:

• effective project planning, execution and management
• techniques for the successful advocacy of proposed public policy changes
• mastery of organizational theories and management techniques and strategies
• analysis of community organizations' impact on the community as a whole
• construction of surveys to gather data for community needs
• analysis of survey data

Honors and Advanced Level Course Note: Advanced courses require a greater demand on students through increased academic rigor.  Academic rigor is obtained through the application, analysis, evaluation, and creation of complex ideas that are often abstract and multi-faceted.  Students are challenged to think and collaborate critically on the content they are learning. Honors level rigor will be achieved by increasing text complexity through text selection, focus on high-level qualitative measures, and complexity of task. Instruction will be structured to give students a deeper understanding of conceptual themes and organization within and across disciplines. Academic rigor is more than simply assigning to students a greater quantity of work.

English Language Development ELD Standards Special Notes Section:

Teachers are required to provide listening, speaking, reading and writing instruction that allows English language learners (ELL) to communicate information, ideas and concepts for academic success in the content area of Social Studies. For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support, students will interact with grade level words, expressions, sentences and discourse to process or produce language necessary for academic success. The ELD standard should specify a relevant content area concept or topic of study chosen by curriculum developers and teachers which maximizes an ELL’s need for communication and social skills. To access an ELL supporting document which delineates performance definitions and descriptors, please click on the following link: https://cpalmsmediaprod.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/docs/standards/eld/ss.pdf.

This course has been designed for the teacher to select and teach only the appropriate standards corresponding to a student’s grade level and/or instructional needs.