HS.7 Using Your Community as a Laboratory for Learning
This LifeKnowledge lesson (HS.7) introduces high school students to servant leadership, using their community as a laboratory for learning. Students define servant leadership, identify three characteristics of a servant leader, and develop a personal servant leadership plan through a hands-on community service experience, group brainstorming of stakeholders, and a self-assessment.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Define servant leadership.
- List three characteristics of servant leader.
- Develop a personal servant leadership plan.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 100 minutes
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Writing Surface
- Transparencies HS.7.TM.A–E
- Overhead projector
- HS.7.Assess—one per person
- HS.7.AS.A—one per person
- Blank transparencies and pens for 4 groups
- Unit
- Introduction to Leadership, Personal Growth, and Career Success
- Problem Area
- Hands-on Experience of Leadership.
- Precepts
- Foundational.
- Key Terms
- Servant leadership
- Resources
- Community Partnerships With Youth. Youth as Trustees Workbook. Greenleaf, Robert K. On Becoming a Servant Leader. San Francisco, California. Jossey-Bass, 1996.
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-C.9-12.5Roles of the Citizen — What are the responsibilities of citizens.