Leadership

Thomas Starr King Middle School Leadership Syllabus

Instructor: Cheryl Zarate

Grades: 7th and 8th

Welcome! This syllabus outlines some of the expectations and events in our leadership class.

Curriculum:

In this class we will emphasize the following themes:

Character traits and values
Strengths and weaknesses
Working collaboratively with a variety of people
Problem solving
Goal setting
Multiple decision-making processes
Debate
Public Speaking

In addition to classroom work, our leadership students are responsible for various fundraisers, assemblies, and school/district-wide projects dependent upon the semester.

Grading:

Our Leadership class will be graded in three areas:

Participation
Completion of classroom assignments/projects
Completion of school/district-wide projects and responsibilities

Students will be given rubrics to show how the points will be distributed among the different areas.

Expectations:

Our classroom rules will align with the school-wide rules of…

Be Respectful
Be Responsible
Be Ready to Learn
Be Safe

Leadership students are held to a high standard of modeling good behavior King Middle School.If students cannot follow these expectations they may be placed in another elective.

Grading student work:

Mastery Grading:

4- Mastery - A

3- Proficient - B

2-Approaching-C

1- limited -D

0- Not yet/no evidence - F