Critical Challenge: How Integral Is Leadership to Active Citizenship?

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-1

Specific Outcome 4.1	-	Students will appreciate the relationship between citizenship and leadership (C, I)
Specific Outcome 4.2	-	Students will exhibit a global consciousness with respect to the human condition and world issues (C, GC)
Specific Outcome 4.3	-	Students will accept responsibilities associated with individual and collective citizenship (C, GC)
Specific Outcome 4.5	-	Students will explore how ideologies shape individual and collective citizenship (C, PADM, GC)
Specific Outcome 4.6	-	Students will analyze perspectives on the rights, roles and responsibilities of the individual in a democratic society (respect for law and order, dissent, civility, political participation, citizen advocacy) (C, PADM, ER)
Specific Outcome 4.8	-	Students will evaluate the extent to which ideology should shape responses to contemporary issues (I, C, GC)
Specific Outcome 4.9	-	Students will develop strategies to address local, national and global issues that demonstrate individual and collective leadership (C, GC)
Specific Outcome 4.10	-	Students will explore opportunities to demonstrate active and responsible citizenship through individual and collective action (C, GC)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will evaluate ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.4	-	Students will predict likely outcomes based on factual information
Specific Outcome S.1.5	-	Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions to develop an expanded appreciation of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome S.1.6	-	Students will synthesize information from contemporary and historical issues to develop an informed position
Specific Outcome S.1.7	-	Students will evaluate the logic of assumptions underlying a position
Specific Outcome S.1.8	-	Students will assemble seemingly unrelated information to support an idea or to explain an event
Specific Outcome S.1.9	-	Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.2.7	-	Students will develop a reasoned position that is informed by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.2.8	-	Students will demonstrate an understanding of how changes in technology can benefit or harm society—in the context of the present, the future and various historical time periods
Specific Outcome S.2.9	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world
Specific Outcome S.3.1	-	Students will analyze the impact of physical and human geography on history
Specific Outcome S.3.5	-	Students will assess the impact of human activities on the land and the environment
Specific Outcome S.3.6	-	Students will assess how human interaction impacts geopolitical realities
Specific Outcome S.3.7	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world, including online atlases
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership in groups to achieve consensus, solve problems, formulate positions and take action, if appropriate, on important issues
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will develop inquiry strategies to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.5.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership by initiating and employing various strategies to resolve conflicts peacefully and equitably
Specific Outcome S.5.2	-	Students will participate in persuading, compromising and negotiating to resolve conflicts and differences
Specific Outcome S.5.3	-	Students will interpret patterns of behaviour and attitudes that contribute or pose obstacles to cross cultural understanding
Specific Outcome S.5.4	-	Students will demonstrate leadership during discussions and group work
Specific Outcome S.5.5	-	Students will respect the needs and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will collaborate in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership by engaging in actions that enhance personal and community well being
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop, express and defend an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.2	-	Students will reflect on changes of perspective or opinion based on information gathered and research conducted
Specific Outcome S.7.4	-	Students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of research tools and strategies to investigate issues
Specific Outcome S.7.5	-	Students will consult a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, that reflect varied viewpoints on particular issues
Specific Outcome S.7.8	-	Students will select and analyze relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.7.12	-	Students will record relevant data for acknowledging sources of information, and cite sources correctly
Specific Outcome S.8.1	-	Students will communicate effectively to express a point of view in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will use skills of formal and informal discussion and/or debate to persuasively express informed viewpoints on an issue
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints
Specific Outcome S.8.4	-	Students will listen respectfully to others
Specific Outcome S.9.1	-	Students will assess the authority, reliability and validity of electronically accessed information
Specific Outcome S.9.3	-	Students will appraise information from multiple sources, evaluating each source in terms of the author's perspective or bias and use of evidence
Specific Outcome S.9.4	-	Students will analyze the impact of various forms of media, identifying complexities and discrepancies in the information and making distinctions between sound generalizations and misleading oversimplification

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-2

Specific Outcome 4.1	-	Students will appreciate the relationship between citizenship and leadership (C, I)
Specific Outcome 4.2	-	Students will exhibit a global consciousness with respect to the human condition and world issues (C, GC)
Specific Outcome 4.3	-	Students will accept responsibilities associated with individual and collective citizenship (C, GC)
Specific Outcome 4.4	-	Students will explore how ideologies shape individual and collective citizenship (C, PADM, GC)
Specific Outcome 4.5	-	Students will examine perspectives on the rights, roles and responsibilities of the individual in a democratic society (respect for law and order, protest, civil disobedience, political participation) (C, PADM, ER)
Specific Outcome 4.7	-	Students will analyze the extent to which ideology should shape responses to contemporary issues (I, C, GC)
Specific Outcome 4.8	-	Students will develop strategies to address local, national and global issues that demonstrate individual and collective leadership (C, GC)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will analyze ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.4	-	Students will suggest likely outcomes based on factual information
Specific Outcome S.1.5	-	Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions
Specific Outcome S.1.6	-	Students will determine the strengths and weaknesses of arguments
Specific Outcome S.1.7	-	Students will identify seemingly unrelated ideas to explain a concept or event
Specific Outcome S.1.8	-	Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.2.7	-	Students will develop reasoned arguments supported by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.2.8	-	Students will describe how changes in technology can benefit or harm society
Specific Outcome S.2.9	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world
Specific Outcome S.3.1	-	Students will analyze the ways in which physical and human geographic features influence world events
Specific Outcome S.3.4	-	Students will assess the impact of human activities on the land and the environment
Specific Outcome S.3.5	-	Students will use current, reliable information sources from around the world, including online atlases
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate skills needed to reach consensus, solve problems and formulate positions
Specific Outcome S.4.2	-	Students will use inquiry processes to make decisions and solve problems
Specific Outcome S.4.3	-	Students will apply ideas and strategies to contribute to decision making and problem solving
Specific Outcome S.5.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership by persuading, compromising and negotiating to resolve conflicts and differences
Specific Outcome S.5.2	-	Students will make meaningful contributions to discussion and group work
Specific Outcome S.5.4	-	Students will consider the points of view and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.5.5	-	Students will identify and use a variety of strategies to resolve conflicts peacefully and equitably
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will demonstrate cooperativeness in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop and express an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.4	-	Students will consult a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, that reflect varied viewpoints on particular issues
Specific Outcome S.7.6	-	Students will select relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.8.1	-	Students will communicate effectively in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will engage in respectful discussion
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.8.4	-	Students will ask respectful and relevant questions of others to clarify viewpoints on an issue
Specific Outcome S.8.5	-	Students will make respectful and reasoned comments on the topic of discussion
Specific Outcome S.9.1	-	Students will assess the authority, reliability and validity of electronically accessed information
Specific Outcome S.9.2	-	Students will analyze the validity of various points of view in media messages
Specific Outcome S.9.4	-	Students will analyze the impact of various forms of media

C	Citizenship
ER	Economics and Resources
CC	Culture and Community

I	Identity
LPP	The Land: Places and People
GC	Global Connections

TCC	Time, Continuity and Change
PADM	Power, Authority, and Decision Making