AS-IV Syllabus
Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC)
AS-400 Course Syllabus
Aerospace Science IV- Fundamentals of Management
Academic Year 2020-2021
Instructors: Maj Patrick D. Stovall
Senior Aerospace Science Instructor
Textbook: Leadership Education 400, Principles of Management
Course Descriptions: A course dedicated to understanding the fundamentals of management, managing yourself and others. Emphasis is placed on allowing the student to see themselves as a manager. Cadets apply leadership and management lessons from previous courses. Cadets will manage the entire corps and perform leadership duties/responsibilities in addition to mentoring and leading other members of the cadet corps.
Chapters Covered:
Leadership Education
Chapter 1: Lesson 1-2, Chapter 2: Lesson 1-2 Chapter 3 Lessons 1-2, Chapter 4: Lessons1-2
Course Objectives:
Apply theories and techniques learned in previous leadership courses
Analyze how to develop leadership and management competency through participation
Analyze strengthened organizational skills through active incorporation
Evaluate how to develop confidence in ability by exercising decision making skills
Evaluate Air Force standards, discipline, and conduct
Uniform Days:
Monday or Tuesday
Grades:
Grades for this course shall be based upon the following:
Assessments = 50% (Tests, Quizzes, Uniform Inspections, proper wear of the uniform, program attitude, class participation, group interaction and participation during physical fitness training days essays, projects, presentations, journals)
Class work = 40% (Leadership Lab, Military bearing, attendance, military courtesies, program attitude, class participation, group interaction and participation during physical fitness training days)
Home work = 10% (Assignments given for completion outside of class for practice or preparation for instruction, i.e., written assignments, portfolios)
Late Assignments
Work that is turned in late (without an extension being granted) will receive an 10% reduction in grade for the first day it is late and a 10% reduction for everyday thereafter to a minimum grade of a 50% for work turned in within 1 week of the due date.
Health & Wellness
Wednesdays are Physical Training (PT) days
50% of this day’s grade is wearing the issued PT uniform
Grading Policy:
Regular class attendance, good conduct, punctuality and class preparation are important elements of this class. Our grading policy is as follows:
90 - 100 = A
80 - 89 = B
70 - 79 = C
60 - 69 = D
59 and below = E
Student is afforded ONE opportunity to improve a score on an assessment. Homework and classwork are not eligible for reassessment. (Per 5121.3) Reteaching/reassessment may occur during class or outside class time.
Once the graded assessment is returned, the student has
up to 5 school days to request reteaching and reassessment by contacting the teacher directly or email
Returning Student Work
All student work will be graded and returned to students within 10 school days, with the exception of large assessments such as tests or projects. Students will be provided with a timeline if an assignment will take longer than ten days to grade.
Students can retrieve their assignments from_Maj Stovall___
Late work will be graded within two weeks, and not immediately upon submission.
Good Faith Efforts
Teachers shall assign a minimum grade of 50% to assignments or assessments for which the student completed the entire assignment and made a good faith effort. Good faith effort is evidenced by the student displaying Administrative Procedure 5121.3 3 Prince George’s County Public Schools persistence, striving for accuracy, time on task, and/or trying an alternative method to solve a problem (which may not be accurate). It is also a display of thinking as a student works to sort through ideas, apply context or figure out how to solve problems. If a student does no work on an assignment, the teacher shall assign a grade of zero.
E: Mail:patrick.stovall@pgcps.org Appoint’s: Call 240-696-8236.