WebQuest

Look In the Mirror for the Leader in You

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Select three other students to work with you as a group. Each group will select four Leaders to research. As you research your Leaders, compare their characteristics with the definitions below.  What characteristics do you have in common with the Leaders you selected. In your research, answer the following questions: What is Leadership, why it is imporant, what do people want in a Leader, where do Leaders learn to lead, define the qualifications of a caring leadership and identify various leadership styles.

1.) Define Leadership.

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/od/leadership/g/leadership.htm 

2.) Review the following characteristics of a leader along with the definitions. 

Fair-minded

Honesty, marked by impartiality

Supportive

To promote the interest

Forward-looking

Someone with a vision 

Honesty

Upright and fair

Dependable

Reliable

Competent

Having suitable or sufficient skills, knowledge and experience.

Broad-minded

Tolerant of varied views.

Trustworthy

Someone you can put your trust in knowing it will not be betrayed. Worthy of confidence.

Inspiring

Able to communicate to the team, that we can do it!

Persistent

Persevering

Motivate

To provide with an incentive, move to action, impel

Determined

Firmly resolved

Self-Controlled

Restraint exercised over one�s own impulses, emotions, or desires

http://www.angelfire.com/il/adventureclub/leader.html

http://ezinearticles.com/?Seven-Personal-Characteristics-Of-A-Good-Leader&id=59305

http://www.entrepreneur.com/humanresources/employeemanagementcolumnistdavidjavitch/article204248.html

3.) Review the list of Leaders.

Leaders

Abraham Lincoln

Martin Luther King, Jr

Susan B. Anthony

Oprah Winfrey

Bill Clinton

Winston Churchill

Mother Teresa

Adolf Hitler

Princess Diana

Jesus

Margaret Thatcher

Nelson Mandela

Desmond Tutu

Mohandas Gandhi

Mikhail Gorhachev

Benazir Bhutto

 

4.) Select four leaders from the list above to research.  You can also select leaders of your choice. 

5.) As you research, look for the characteristics in your leaders. Assign the characteristics to your leaders.

Historical Leaders of the World

http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/historical_world_Leaders.html

Winston Churchill

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/churchill_winston.shtml

http://www.winston-churchill-leadership.com/leadership-traits.html

Nelson Mandela 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/mandela_nelson.shtml

Abraham Lincoln

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/lincoln_abraham.shtml

Martin Luther King

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/king_martin_luther.shtml

Bill Clinton

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/clinton_bill.shtml

Mohandas Gandhi 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gandhi_mohandas.shtml

Adolf Hitler

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/hitler_adolf.shtml

Margaret Thatcher 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/thatcher_margaret.shtml

6.) Look in the mirror at yourself, what leadership characteristics do you have?

7.) Compare your characteristics to the Leaders you selected.

8.) As a group, each student should discuss which Leader they most identify with.  Determine if you agree or disagree with your  findings. If not, why not?

9.) What are your strengths and weaknesses?

10.) What did you learn in the process?

11.) What can you do to develop your strengths and bring up your weaknesses?

12.) Document and record your findings in your Powerpoint presentation and your research paper.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Description: Mother Teresa


Description: Winston Churchill


Description: Martin Luther King

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Description: Abraham Lincoln

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