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Leadership Roles In The Primary Classroom… Apply Here!

Hi friends! I’m happy you’re here to join me today. I’m sharing with you how I hold leadership roles in the classroom and how my firsties apply for these roles.

So, I posted this picture on Instagram last Friday and it got some attention! So, I thought I better blog about it and share the application for FREE of course!
Have students apply for leadership roles in the classroom
If you have been following my blog for awhile, then you know already that I teach at a Leader In Me school. You probably also know how important I feel it is to teach my students to be leaders for themselves and for others. You see, we have leadership roles in the classroom. These are similar to classroom jobs, but we don’t call them jobs. We don’t want our kids to think of them as something they are required to do, but yet something that they can be leaders of. Something they can set an example to others when they perform this role. 
This past Friday was the first time I have had my kids apply for a role. They will hold the role for a month and then apply again. They may choose to apply for the same role or they can pick a different one. If you look closely at the pictures, you’ll see my students highlighted their number one choice, and then wrote a 2 and a 3 by their second and third choice. I noticed many wanted the more popular choices, such as Line Leader and Pencil Leader, so I asked them to add their second and third choice as well. 
Have students apply for leadership roles in the classroom

We will definitely be working on how to write about our strengths. I didn’t include on the application for them to write why they want the role or why they should have it, but yet to explain the strengths they have that may help them excel in this role. I think that’s really important for kids to acknowledge as early as we can get them to- their strengths. There’s so many times where I feel like they are completely aware of what they “can’t” do (but that’s a whole different post and I need to get off my soapbox before I start a long rant!), so we need to make them aware of what they succeed in. Anyway, then they draw a picture of them performing their role that they want. 
Anyway, if you want to pick up this application, click the picture below!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5qbxVJbDhb-RThwQ0lXUjlESTQ/view?usp=sharing
The roles are mostly pretty self-explanatory, but I’m going to include the picture from my clip chart product that explains the leadership roles:

Have students apply for leadership roles in the classroom

{Thank you Cara Carroll, Melonheadz Illustrating, MTF Fonts and Teaching In A Small Town for the fonts and graphics}

Here’s how I display my my leadership roles in the classroom:

Keep track of students classroom jobs with a clip chart
I use this as a clip chart and clip the students on their given leadership role. If you’re interested in this editable clip chart, you can grab it in my store by clicking on the pictures below. I have a bubblegum one and an beach-themed one. 
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Leader-Jobs-1372983

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Leader-Jobs-Beach-Theme-1380056
Thanks for reading my post! I hope it was helpful to those of you creating leadership roles in your classroom!
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Comments

  1. Jennifer Eng says

    March 9, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    Love this idea! I'm going to try it after spring break!

  2. Shelby - First Time Firstie says

    April 5, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    Okay so next time we get lunch/dinner we need to talk about leadership roles. We also change them out monthly and I love them! I haven't started having my kids fill out applications yet though. Maybe that's a job for next year now that's there's 2 months left!

    Shelby
    First Time Firstie

  3. Karrie Rolwes says

    May 18, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    Is there any way you can make this editable? I absolutely love it but I have different leadership roles.

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