Being an effective leader Recreation and healthy Active Leadership PLF4M A2 Lesson – Leadership Types

Think of the leaders in your life What do all the leaders in your life have in common? What attributes can you think of? Think about what leaders created change in the past to get us where we are today!

Woman Suffrage Case Study Women’s suffrage (or franchise) is the right of women to vote in political elections; campaigns for this right generally included demand for the right to run for public office. The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long struggle intended to address fundamental issues of equity and justice and to improve the lives of Canadians.

Suffragists — people who advocated for the extension of suffrage — were typically White, middle-class women, many of whom believed that suffrage would increase the influence of their class and result in a better country. Figure 2 Suffrage Meeting

Men and Women as separate entities The insertion of the word male in 1843 in New Brunswick, and in 1849 into Québec election law, reflected an emerging ideology that placed women and men in separate spheres. This reflected the increased idealization of women as guarantors of cultural survival, who had no place in political life. Under this ideology, women were expected to remain at home, producing children and guaranteeing culture. As French Canadians increasingly became a minority culture among English-speaking Protestants in British North America, women’s suffrage was seen as a particular threat to their national survival.

Begin to stand for your rights! By the last decades of the 19th century, Canadian women increasingly protested against discrimination in education and paid employment as well as violence against women and children. One remedy was the suffrage campaign, which was led by many first-generation university graduates and female professionals in medicine, teaching and journalism To be continued….

Leadership Attributes integrity and empathy self-knowledge sense of responsibilities for ones own actions and learning confidence and assertiveness interpersonal skills (such as the ability to build commitment, empower others, recognize contributions and individual differences, and can build harmonious relationships) critical and creative thinking skills (such as the ability to evaluate past performances and determine what could have been done differently to be able to transfer learning to new situations to be able to plan ahead

  Task A2: Identify the attributes and skills needed to be an effective leader Read the Woman Suffrage Article and take note of the leaders Chose one of the leaders in the article and answer the following questions in report form with help from the internet Who is your Woman Suffrage Leader? When and where did she live? What were some hardships during that time? What leadership attributes did she have? What's an example of that leadership attribute being proven? Your report should be approximately 1 page with headers. 5 marks per section.

Rubric A2 Section Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Knowledge Thinking Many mistakes in facts More than 3 errors in facts Accurate, relevant facts Detailed knowledge given Thinking No connections made back to course material Little connection made to leadership styles and attributes Many connections made to leadership styles and attributes High order thinking evident in writing with connections made to leadership Inquiry Student showed no inquiry with material given Student showed little inquiry into the material given with assignment Student gathered information in the handout given and applied ideas clearly Student gathered information outside of the handout given and applied new information to ideas Communication Missing titles, names, or date and/or task is incomplete or missing information Few mistakes in writing with some unorganized thoughts Less than two spelling or grammar errors, with name and title on the document No spelling or grammar mistakes, and task is clear, with headers, names and dates