Student Leaders Receiving Their Award
This was a leadership challenge run by students from saltash.net Community School in the UK. They became the first students to present as experts to an international ministerial conference in 2014 as a result of this work. The photo shows them collecting their award from the Spanish Minister of Education and worldwide Head of Microsoft Education.
Step 1 – A set of challenges were designed by the school which could only be done by students independently outside of lesson time. The projects were quite wide ranging but had in common the fact that they were designed to help other students or staff. They used some of the examples listed in the PPT called “Level 4 leadership challenge” from the downloads page of this site or from the list here
Step 2 – For each challenge they did they produced a 2 minute PPT of their evidence.
Step 3 – They used Skype and other software to share their PPTs with a panel of students in other schools that had also led and completed similar challenges
Step 4 – They were awarded a leadership badge and qualification based on the feedback from other students and from staff in their school (in reality it was difficult to keep a panel of students across different time zones on line at the same pre-determined time so staff stepped in often but this was widely accepted by the students)
Step 5 – This was envisioned as children taking over the running of the scheme entirely and a couple of the teams had considerable success in this respect but the open nature of the platform they were using did not lend itself to unsupervised contact and so the project was not developed to the next stage.
Learning By Ladders 