Building Leadership in Boys

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• Building Leadership in Boys

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Do You Like Chicken?
Get ready to Move It!
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What just happened?
Youve just been motivated out of your comfort
zone!
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MOTIVATION IS THE KEY TO HELPING BOYS REACH THEIR
POTENTIAL.
How do we end up with the leaders of tomorrow?
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Is the question Nature or Nurture?

• Could the answer be BOTH?

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TIME FOR SOME FUN!
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THE ALPHA MALE

• Outgoing
• Friendly
• Intelligent
• (Socially) Powerful
• Confident
• Social Group Leaders

• Bossy
• Egocentric
• Know-it-all
• Domineering
• Manipulative
• Cocky
• MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY!

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Movie Time
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Characteristics of Leadership

• Respectful
• Resourceful
• Takes Initiative
• Consistent
• A Good Communicator
• Flexible
• Enthusiastic

• A Problem Solver

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How Do We Get Them To Be Leaders?
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Strategies to use in the classroom

• Provide consistent modeling.
• Require respect for everyone all the time.
• Allow for freedom of inquiry and respectful
  expression.

• Provide opportunities to share ideas and creative
  thinking.
• Create mentoring experiences with other
  children.
• Display work samples or photos of the children
  working appropriately.

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And Always Make It FUN!
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Strategies-Reading-

• Provide a variety of material.
• Non-Fiction
• Newspapers
• Magazines (sports, cars, motocross)
• How To manuals
• Atlas/Maps/Travel Brochures
• Cookbooks
• much, much more

• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Mystery novels
• Plays
• Poetry
• Sing-A-Longs
• much, much more

Also
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Reading strategies cont.

• Allow for paired or buddy reading
• Character Dress-up Day
• 100 Book Challenge
• Mentor Reading
• Take It Outside

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Strategies for Math

• Make it visual or tactile
• Use Manipulatives (allow for experimentation)
• Paired or Team activities (competition is key)
• Use music, songs, or dance (patterns)
• Student Teachers
• If you know it, then teach it

And
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Use Interactive Computer Games

• funbrain.com
• factmonster.com
• pbskids.com
• mathplayground.com
• coolmath4kids.com
• mathgoodies.com
• rainforestmaths.com

• bigbrainz.com
• rickyspears.com/rulergame
• kaboose.com/games

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Strategies for science and social studies
MAKE IT COME ALIVE!
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Science and Social Studies Cont.

• Use physical space to represent concepts (North,
  South, East, West)
• Use your body to represent geographical features
  of the earth (plains, hill, mountain)
• Become a historical character
• Make your own tomb and fill it
• Make a pyramid
• Google Earth

• Make Volcanoes and explode them!!!!!!
• Play kickball to learn force motion
• Grow a plant from a seed
• Cook hot dogs in a solar oven
• Light a bulb using a simple circuit (wire and a
  battery)

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Ready for more fun????
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Thank you very much for attending this session.
I hope that you have learned something today and
that your time was well spent.