Leadership

Global societal and technological trends are shaping the future workplace, such as changes brought about by AI, automation and as the world looks to reduce the impacts of climate change. Core transferable skills such as leadership are becoming increasingly valuable to employers along with these shifts and can transfer across different roles and industries. 

Teach your secondary school students that leadership, at its core, is about recognising your own strengths to best support, encourage, motivate, and foster collaboration in others to achieve a shared goal. 

The activities in this lesson guide students in understanding that being a leader means being proactive, communicating effectively, keeping projects on track, and more. These are all traits that contribute to academic success and prepare students to thrive in their future careers.

Teaching Resources:   

·      Leadership: Lesson plan and presentation slides – for use with a group of students in the classroom

·      Leadership: Student worksheets

·      Secondary school: Skills tracker – an optional resource to support students keep track of the skills they have developed and plan how they can practise them

·       Leadership icon: available to download and incorporate in your wider teaching materials to help students recognise other contexts where they are learning and utilising leadership skills.  

Lesson learning outcomes:

By the end of the lesson students will be able to: 

·        Identify key leadership qualities

·        Give a wide range of examples of leadership and recognise that anyone can be a leader

·        Understand the importance of teamwork as part of being a leader

·        Begin to identify skills and their use in other areas ( like employability)

·        Understand how to incorporate inclusivity into leadership, ensuring that all team members feel supported and valued.  

Continue developing your students’ leadership skills

Go beyond our core transferable skills lessons with the schemes of learning and progression maps. They provide a ready-made sequence of curriculum linked resources to help you build progression in your learners' knowledge over time. Visit the Scheme of learning homepage to support with your planning.