In Grade 4 the year starts off with a Cooperation Games / Adventure Challenge unit. It is integrated into the homeroom unit on Leadership. In class the students look at different leaders and their attributes while in PE we have been looking at the practical aspect of leadership, culminating with a two day trip full of group leadership activities.
This has been achieved by setting up a range of activities that require teamwork to complete. Before the activity a leader was chosen for each group. Instructions on how to complete the activity was given only to the leader - part of being a leader is having the ability to communicate.
As the activities were taking place we would take some timeouts, where the different group leaders would come together and review how the teams were doing and think about what they needed to do when they got back to the group. Rather than focus on the actual solution to the problem, we would look at the leadership issues, such as how to get everyone to share ideas or giving different people roles.
At the end of the unit students reflected on what they had learnt about leadership.
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