As educators, our real role is to make ourselves redundant. We teach students to think for themselves, and how to find information that they need in order to solve problems in their everyday lives. Part of this learning, includes taking on leadership roles and being able to direct, organize, and follow through on tasks. The ability of our David Cameron students to do just this never ceases to amaze me. We have such an incredible amount of talent and positive peer role models in our school that it's a wonder teachers get to organize anything.
Leadership comes from being thrust into positions, taking control of situations, or being invited in to power. With the Olympics on people's minds, hockey is something that seems to be a focus for leadership opportunities in our school these days. We have the organized and formal approach where some students in grade 4 and 6 are taking control by organizing an intramural hockey league. They are setting dates, rules, and teams. On the other hand, we have our regular recess/lunch hockey going on in the turn-around, where older students are including younger ones and teaching them how to play. These older students recognizing that in order for everyone to have fun, someone needs to take charge, have done an admirable job of ensuring a great outside activity.
These are two small examples of the myriad leadership initiatives being undertaken in our school. Who knows, maybe one day we'll have some of our student leaders writing this blog instead of me.
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