Assessment Activities

Your teacher will guide you and let you know which assessment tasks are best suited for you.

All assessments are attached to individual modules and can be completed in their entirety or teachers may choose to exclude certain assessments based on their student's needs.

You need to submit all completed assessment work to your teacher so you can earn your Leadership Certification, a requirement of your high school Specialist High Skills Major program.

Assessment for Module 1:

Characteristics of Effective Leaders

Read the article, Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. Create a three-column chart with the headings: List of Important Leadership Qualities, Impact on Interactions in Workplace, and a third column entitled Strength or Need? List as many characteristics of effective leaders as you can from your understanding of the articles and videos you reviewed.
Next, have a conversation with an employer, community member, teacher, an employee, family member or friend. In the second column, include both of your opinions on the impact of each leadership quality on others in the workplace and add any new qualities to your list that come up in your conversation. You'll be using the third column later in another module.
Write a paragraph or create a voice recording describing how leaders can positively and negatively impact the workplace. Share this with your teacher.

LeadershipFivePracticesArticle.pdf

Leadership Qualities .docx

Assessment for Module 2:

Interpersonal Leadership Skills & Knowledge

Why are interpersonal skills important to the success of a leader? In this module, you've learned about some of the knowledge and skills necessary for effective communication, teamwork, and leadership. Student leaders know how to get along with others at school, in the workplace, and in the community. They learn about the importance of understanding diversity and respecting others, and they become actively involved in contributing to their communities. (Ontario Curriculum, p. 39)

Review your Tracking Chart from Module 1: use a highlighter to show those leadership characteristics that you consider to be interpersonal skills.

Now it's time to reflect on your own interpersonal skills. In Column 3 on your Tracking Chart, Strengths or Needs?, mark those interpersonal skills that you believe are your strengths with an "S". Take a close look at the list again; consider your needs and mark these ("N") in Column 3 as well. Which leadership qualities are challenging for you?

Finally, write a journal entry, no less than a page in length, describing why interpersonal skills are important to the success of a leader. Share your "Lollipop Moment" like Drew Dudley did. Personalize your journal entry by describing your strengths and needs and share how your unique leadership style and interpersonal skills could contribute to a workplace. P.S.: More than likely you are going to be asked this question in a future job interview. Good leaders reflect on their strengths and weaknesses.

Share your journal entry with your teacher.

Share your revised Tracking Chart with your teacher.

Leadership Qualities .docx

Employees at SUNDT Construction Company and General Contractor, created this video to support a culture of safety. Don Merrell wrote the poem, “I Chose to Look the Other Way" in an attempt to get fellow employees to take responsibility for both their own safety and also for the safety of others who work near them. (Video created Feb 22, 2015)

"I Chose to Look the Other Way"

A Poem by Don Merrell

Watch the video to the left and/or read another of Don Merell's safety poems here:

Write a personal response to the poem you selected. What important messages do you take away from this poem about your rights and responsibilities in the workplace? Discuss your personal feelings and attitudes about the poem. Select a phrase that impacted you. Write about how this phrase made you feel. Write about how this poem reminds you of something personal to you.

Share this personal response with your teacher.

Assessment for Module 3:

Exploring Leadership Opportunities

Twitter Post:

@CSLA_Leaders

(The Canadian Student Leadership Association)

Explain how gaining experience in leadership can help you achieve your goals.

The Canadian Student Leadership Association (CSLA) is a registered not-for-profit educational association in Canada. Check out #studentleadersacrosscanadatuesday under Latest Posts on the CSLA feed on Twitter. Watch several videos of Canadian student leaders speaking about the reasons they lead in their own high schools: The Reason I'm A Student Leader

Begin a new post on @CSLA_Leaders or a similar student leadership feed of your choice.

Write a 200 word Twitter post or post your own video. Explain how gaining experience in leadership can help you achieve your goals.

Share your post with your teacher.

Assessment for Module 4:

Leadership and My Future

My Resumé Reflects My Strengths

Use the Leadership Qualities Tracking Sheet and consider which leadership strengths you'll include in your revised resumé. It's a good idea to match your resumé to the skills that are needed in a sector where you are pursuing a future job or career. Add your leadership strengths that match the job requirements in your resumé! This will help employers know that you have both the soft and hard skills required to be successful in your new job.

Watch the video, Top Resume Skills. Compare and contrast the skills highlighted in the video with those on your own resumé. Ensure your leadership strengths are included.

Submit your revised resumé to your teacher.

OR if you don't have a current resumé, create a description of your soft and hard skills that you would include on a future resumé, emphasizing your leadership strengths. Submit this written description to your teacher.

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