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Leadership education is a method of bringing up your kids to become respected future leaders, successful businessmen, revered church leaders and righteous statesmen in the community. These are leaders who seek change in our community. It's a parent's hope that your children will become excellent future leaders.
Leadership education is a method of bringing up your kids to become respected future leaders, successful businessmen, revered church leaders and righteous statesmen in the community. These are leaders who seek change in our community. It’s a parent’s hope that your children will become excellent future leaders.
People wonder why one child receives leadership education and the other receives training to become a follower. The thing is, a child who is schooled in the right way to think, will more likely become future leaders. When young people think outside their comfort zone, when they work on their own way, and use it in life, then they grow to become tomorrow’s leaders, doing what is right.
How can you train your children to think? Is there a way to apply this to your own school program at no expense?
Andrew Kern, of Circe Institute, says the quality of questions you ask determines the quality of your life. Leaders have been brought up learning to ask the right questions. They do not simply think on literal terms; they think beyond the literal, evaluating and analyzing issues.
Asking questions of your students is free and easy, as well as extremely effective. Questions should allow your children time to think and ponder. Your responsibility is deciding which question are the best ones to ask and leading a discussion with your students.
When questions are asked, decisions must be made. As your students answer questions, they develop the habit of making good decisions. Sometimes good decisions must be made with the mentor’s guidance. Therefore, give your students plenty of practice answering questions with you at their side. Classics are a great place to start your questioning.
Choose a classic book on your students’ reading level. Have them read the book daily and write down their thoughts about the book. Once or twice a week you, as the teacher and mentor, lead a Socratic discussion. Begin by asking simple, literal questions to give your students confidence in participating.
Once you set the stage with simple questions, start asking questions of comparison. Compare two different characters or settings. List the ideas on the board to generate more discussion. Most of all, be careful you, as the mentor, do not answer your own questions. When there is no answer for your question, rephrase your question and wait for your students to respond. Silence is great at allowing our children to think on their own.
Leadership training is absolutely necessary in today’s curriculum for your students. Questions and discussions are the beginning point of educating our children to be leaders who can think on their own.