How to Inspire Future PLTL Leaders

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How to Inspire Future PLTL Leaders

• Marco McDonald

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Peer Leadership

• Can everyone be a leader?
• Promote both Math/Science and Leadership skills
• Are leadership skills useful to every student?

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Motivation

• The key to motivation is for it to apply to the
  every day life of the student
• Help students understand that leadership skills
  are important in all parts of life
• Ask crucial questions
• What are they doing?
• Why are they doing it?
• How well are they doing?
• How can they achieve what is important to them?

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Clark Hull

• Drive Reduction Theory
• Drive ? Response 
• Arousal Theory
• Stimulus ?
• ? Response ? Conditioning
  
• Organism ?

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Application of Theory

• Environment
• Physical Environment
• Freedom to Explore Ideas
• Attitude
• Positive Attitude
• Interested in the Topic
• Topic
• Make it Interesting
• Creativity

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Encouragement

• If a student does well, tell them!
• If a student explained the topic well, tell them!

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Learn From Mistakes

• Students may be afraid of making mistakes in
  front of the group. Emphasize that making
  mistakes is a GREAT way to learn!
• Even teachers make mistakes. It actually helps
  them become better teachers because they can
  better understand the learning process.

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Common Goals

• If a workshop student enjoys taking a leadership
  role encourage that leadership tendency.
• Try to have students adopt peer leader goals.
• Make them see that other students might learn
  more from their own mistakes than from the leader
  modeling a correct solution.
• Transfer ownership of the workshop to the
  students.

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Role Models

• The peer leader is in the position of a role
  model.
• Think about role models and their special
  qualities.
• Be a successful Leader!

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Be a Successful Role Model

• Find a role model
• Volunteer for projects
• Be humble
• Demonstrate loyalty
• Be professional
• Think of every project as a learning opportunity
• Be flexible
• Listen
• Delegate
• Read and observe
• Show appreciation

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Open the door

• Ask students if theyve ever considered being a
  teacher
• Invite them to talk to their professor about
  becoming a workshop leader

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Bibliography

• Students helping Students, Ender Newton, San
  Francisco, Jossey Bass, 2000
• Explorations in Learning Instruction, Greg
  Kearsley, tip.psychology.org, 2003
• AllPsych Online, www.allpsych.com
• NALS, www.nals.org
• Clark Hull, Jana Schrock, fates.cns.muskingum.edu
  /psych/psycweb/history/hull.htm