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Leadership through Experiential Learning

2. Goals
Prepare students to be leaders in their future professional, educational, and service endeavors by providing leadership curriculum that can lead to a certificate.
Offer the Certificate of Leadership as an embedded credential for undergraduate students.
Provide opportunities for students to apply skills and knowledge acquired through activity-based and experiential learning in practical experiences.
Enhance instructional delivery through activity-based and experiential learning practices.
Will enhance student learning and offer a leadership certificate for undergraduate students who will engage in new course work, achieve new learning outcomes, and be exposed to new experiential learning opportunities.
Impact the learning environment by providing AU faculty not only the opportunity to provide leadership in teaching innovations but also to mentor future generations of leaders within their respective disciplines.

3. Leadership Certificate
The leadership certificate will expose students to leadership theory and practice, guide students in their leadership development and offer students opportunities to gain significant leadership experiences. 
The leadership certificate will expose students to leadership theory and practice, guide students in their leadership development and offer students opportunities to gain significant leadership experiences. 

4. Leadership Certificate
Developmental Certificate
Embedded Certificate
LDRS 2000 is free elective
Remaining courses within the program of study

5. Earning the Leadership Certificate
Leadership Course
Bridge Course(s)/ Leadership Experience
Capstone
Experience
The Leadership Course will INTRODUCE leadership concepts to the students.
Bridge courses/leadership experiences will REINFORCE those leadership concepts.
Capstone Experience will allow students to MASTER those leadership concepts.
All in all, the certificate is a developmental certificate – students will be provided the tools throughout his or her curriculum to practice and build upon to become seasoned leaders.
Introduce
Reinforce
Master

6. Bridge Courses
Foster the student’s leadership and professional development within his or her chosen field.
Value-added
Utilize experiential learning teaching methods
Incorporate leadership competencies
Assessing competencies
There are four SLOs, which will include leadership competencies.
Faculty who teach the courses will determine which SLOs/competencies will be taught and assessed.

7. Student Learning Outcomes
SLO 1 – Students will be able to purposefully communicate to a target or general audience.
Communication Skills
Influencing/Negotiating
Interpersonal Skills
Empathy
Emotional Intelligence
SLO 1 – Students will be able to purposefully communicate to a target or general audience.

8. Student Learning Outcomes
SLO 2 - Students demonstrate problem solving skills.
Problem Solving
Decisiveness
Creativity
Teamwork
Collaboration
SLO 2 - Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to analyze a problem and devise a solution.
Synthesize information
Ask questions
Interpret data
Acquire information
Solve problem

9. Student Learning Outcomes
SLO 3 - Students will explain selected leadership theories or models as related to student's own leadership development/experience.
Reflection

10. Student Learning Outcomes
SLO 4 – Students will exhibit behaviors that distinguish competent professionals.
Integrity/Honesty
Accountability/Dependability
Quality/Quantity of work
Resilience
Decisiveness
Creativity/Innovation
Appearance
Attendance/Punctuality
Oral/Written/Interpersonal skills
SLO 4 – Students will exhibit behaviors that distinguish competent professionals.

11. Student Learning Outcomes
SLO 5 – Students will learn teamwork through active group participation.
Communication Skills
Influencing/Negotiating
Interpersonal Skills
Empathy
Emotional Intelligence
SLO 5 – Students will learn teamwork through active group participation.

12. Earning the Leadership Certificate
Leadership Course
Bridge Course(s)/ Leadership Experience
Capstone
Experience
The Leadership Course will INTRODUCE leadership concepts to the students.
Bridge courses/leadership experiences will REINFORCE those leadership concepts.
Capstone Experience will allow students to MASTER those leadership concepts.
All in all, the certificate is a developmental certificate – students will be provided the tools throughout his or her curriculum to practice and build upon to become seasoned leaders.
Introduce
Reinforce
Master

13. Why Leadership and Experiential Learning?
LEADERS ARE DEVELOPED THROUGH PRACTICE.
Academic experiences and involvement have significant impacts on career development.
Cooperative or group learning experiences have a positive influence on self-reported growth in career-related skills such as leadership abilities, public speaking ability, ability to influence others, and ability to work effectively in groups.

14. Experiential Learning
Experiential learning is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as "learning through reflection on doing".
Tell me, and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me, and I understand. ~Confucius
Experiential Learning includes Internships, practicum
Active learning exercises
Simulations
Role-playing
Reflection
Teaching students how to reflect on what they learn
Lecturing involves the transfer of information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through the minds of either (Multiple sources).

15. Experiential Learning
Broadly, experiential learning is any learning that supports students in applying their knowledge and conceptual understanding to real-world problems or situations where the instructor directs and facilitates learning. The classroom, laboratory, or studio can serve as a setting for experiential learning through embedded activities such as case and problem-based studies, guided inquiry, simulations, experiments, or art projects (Wurdinger & Carlson, 2010).

16. Experiential Learning Cycle
Experience
Begins with doing something in which the individual, team or organization are assigned a task. 
This means taking time-out from "doing" and stepping back from the task and reviewing what has been done and experienced.
At this stage lots of questions are asked and communication channels are opened to others members of the team.
Vocabulary is very important and is needed to verbalize and discuss with others.
Test
Reflection
Conceptualize
Kolb, 1974

17. Earning the Leadership Certificate
Leadership Course
Bridge Course(s)/ Leadership Experience
Capstone
Experience
The Leadership Course will INTRODUCE leadership concepts to the students.
Bridge courses/leadership experiences will REINFORCE those leadership concepts.
Capstone Experience will allow students to MASTER those leadership concepts.
All in all, the certificate is a developmental certificate – students will be provided the tools throughout his or her curriculum to practice and build upon to become seasoned leaders.
Introduce
Reinforce
Master

18. Next Steps
Identify and recruit students to take the LDRS 2000 course in the spring
Nominate students
Identify bridge courses in each of the programs of study
Identify faculty to teach the bridge courses
Participate in workshops
Develop a culture of leadership on campus
Support student leadership development
Actively promote the leadership certificate
Participate in the Leadership Competency of the Month with your faculty, staff and students
Providing undergraduate research and service opportunities
And…apply for the EIF!!

19. Education Innovation Fund
Education Innovation Fund has been established as a dedicated fund reserved for teaching faculty who wish to pursue experiential learning opportunities with their students.

20. Drop-Ins
Drop-Ins are scheduled to provide guidance to faculty members who are interested in submitting a proposal to the EIF. Drop-Ins will be held in the Office of Experiential Learning in Reese Library, Room 109.  
September 15, 9:00 – 11:00
September 21, 9:00 – 11:00
September 22, 3:00 – 5:00
October 4, 3:00 – 5:00
October 20, 3:00 – 5:00
October 21, 12:00 – 2:00
October 27, 1:00 – 3:00

21. Questions? Office of Experiential Learning
Kimberly Gray, DPA
Director of Experiential Learning |
Learn more at:
Located in Reese Library 109