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- Leadership Values - Your Youth
Training Initiative -
Choosing Your Approach to Youth Leadership Values Training
Six Methods of Teaching Values
In researching the
subject of
Youth Leadership Values Training,
we identified
six methods of teaching values that were used at Old Kia Kima
over the years. The methods are outlined below. Note that you
can click on each bulleted point to review a thumbnail description
of each of these six methods. As you review them, you might think about incorporating at
least some or perhaps all of these methods as you develop Action
Plans for implementing your own Youth Leadership Values Training
initiatives.
Example
Values Training Programs
Also, to help you
get started, we have developed some example
values training programs you may want to
consider using
which are matched up with the six Leadership Values Training methods
outlined and highlighted below.
Our goal is to provide
an example of each of these six
methods to help you develop
ideas and Action Plans for implementing your own Youth Leadership
Values Training initiatives. So, if you prefer you can also look
here to preview currently available example values
training programs developed by Old Kia Kima, which match up with
each of these six methods of teaching values listed below.
Youth
Leadership Values Training
For The
Leaders of Tomorrow
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Teaching Values by Role Model Example
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Using
Stories, Skits & Songs to Communicate Values
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Identifying Hero Examples to Teach Values
v Leading Informal Small Group Values
Discussions
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Values Taught via Challenging Outdoor
Activities
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Choosing Mentors to Nurture and Tutor Values
In
our research for this website, these six approaches were used
historically at Old Kia Kima, both formally and informally, to teach
the Leadership
Values of Integrity, Achievement, Responsibility, and Courage.
Three Postulates
for
Approaching Youth Leadership Values Training
These three postulates form the conceptual basis for our model for
Youth Leadership Values Training initiatives.
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Although there
are many Personality Characteristics that are important for
emphasis in a Leadership Values Training Initiative;
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These four
Personality Characteristics
of +Self-Esteem,
+Self-Confidence, +Attitude of Expectations, and +Moral/Ethical
Life’s View are crucial, and must be further developed as a
foundation from which key Youth Leadership Values can grow and
flourish.
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Although there
are many other Values that have an important supporting role for
emphasis in a Leadership Values Training Initiative;
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These four
Leadership Values
of Integrity, Achievement,
Responsibility, and Courage, represent the cornerstones that
anchor a successful program of Leadership Values Training,
especially when they are modeled, taught and developed, in
context with the key Personality Characteristics.
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By
establishing this conceptual framework consisting of a matrix of
Four Leadership Development Quadrants within which the
Personality Characteristics and Leadership Values interact;
The Integrated Leadership
Education "Multiplier" in a Well Coordinated Youth Leadership
Values Training Initiative
“Integrated
Leadership Education implies that youth leadership experiences
are connected to nearly everything they do. By incorporating leadership
concepts across academic curriculum, in service projects, through daily
discussion, with school-to-career initiatives and in community
activities, youth are exposed to the wide range of positive
possibilities related to being a leader (or taking on
leadership roles). ”
Mariam MacGregor, (2005) Designing Student
Leadership Programs: Transforming the Leadership Potential
of Youth
It is the sum of all
experiences that affect the development of Youth Leadership Skills, some
perhaps more than others but all to varying degrees. This view makes
sense of what is otherwise a fragmented process. By
integrating your Youth Leadership Values Training with other
activities that our youth are typically involved in, we multiply the
lessons learned via a well coordinated initiative.
Leadership
Values
Leadership Skills
The Case for
Integrated Leadership Education
The
focus of this website and our Youth Leadership education effort is on
Leadership Values as they enhance the quality of the outcome
of applying the Skills of effective leadership. The two are
very much interrelated, and our youth need help developing an
abundance of both to become effective leaders.
While addressing leadership skills are very germane to the
leadership development needs of our youth, it was beyond the current
scope of this website material, and therefore we have left it as a topic to be
explored more thoroughly at a future date. However, because the two
needs for Leadership Values and Leadership Skills come
together in the application of leadership behavior, the reality is
that to address one gives rise to the need to address both ends of
this leadership development spectrum. The good news is that there is
an abundant source of good books and articles dedicated exclusively
to the topic of “Leadership” and requisite Leadership Skills.
This leads us to the case for Integrated Leadership Education,
because you have in your community a significant number of allies
and a variety of youth programs and organizations that address the
need to develop Leadership skills/values. We have shared in
our material that this was an important “aha!” to come out of
researching the variety of methods of Values and Character
Education. We clearly need to take a holistic approach that
recognizes a variety of related initiatives with a synergistic
effect on the total outcome of Youth Leadership Skills and
Values Development. When we do our part, also insuring that our
youth are engaged in multiple opportunities, they are able to
maximize their Leadership development for both Values and
Skills.
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