Personal Leadership A
Why This Class
As a parent, you may be in the habit of helping your student manage most of their day-to-day life. Now that they’ve reached high school, you are ready to turn that responsibility over to them. This course helps your student make that shift by developing the essential habits of making and keeping commitments and consciously budgeting their time.
Mentors in this course help students develop a personal mission statement to guide the commitments they make of their time and energy. Students submit weekly accountability reports to establish consistent follow-through on their goals and get regular doses of inspiration in class as they read and discuss great books and describe their successes, failures, and lessons learned.
By the end of this course, students learn to appreciate the satisfaction of making and keeping commitments, being accountable to themselves, and taking ownership of their daily lives.
How can I develop the habits of personal leadership?
How can I become a more interdependent person?
What are the principles of motivation?
How can I be proactive in being and becoming the person I want to be?
How can I learn to make and keep weekly commitments?
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
SELF Journal by BestSelf Co. —Students need one for each semester
Recommended Grade: 9th (Freshman)
Estimated Weekly Hours: 5
Format: Live, self-paced