Skills

Press, 26 June 1989, Page 18

Skills

Kia ora teacher. The final draft of Forms 111 and IV Guide to the Syllabus (1989) outlines grade-related criteria which are also applicable in Forms I and 11. After collecting, using and communicating information, pupils should be able to make some simple conclusions on the nature of leadership. Kia ora pupils, try these exercises—

Leadership (Past) For the leaders below, state which State (country) or people they led and/or write one sentence about them. You may use • Julius Caesar. • Napoleon Bonaparte. • Mao Tse Tung. • Eamon de Valera. • Cleopatra. • Alexander the Great. • Michael Joseph Savage. • Mahatma Gandhi. • Catherine the Great. I Leadership (Present) j (a) Make a “rogues’ gal- | lery” of local, , national and inter- , national leaders. . Paste pictures and ' biographies in your 1 scrapbook. 1 (b) Use the international . pages to update the biographies on the ’ leaders (right). What 1 recent actions have 1 they taken? 1 i (c) Imagine you are a ( visitor from another . planet. Using the J newspaper for evi- 1 dence say: 1 (i) Which leader you | would like most to ( meet, and why? ( (ii) Which leader you i would least like to i meet, and why? ( l. Leadership (Future) (a) Discuss or debate: (i) The Earth’s problems can only be solved by one World Government, not national governments. (ii) Women make better leaders than men. (b) What qualities and

an encyclopaedia (e.g., Hitler — Germany. The Nazi dictator whose leadership led to World War II). • Queen Victoria. • Richard John Seddon. • Pierre Trudeau. • Golda Meir. • Indira Gandhi. • Gamal Abdel Nasser. • Maria (Isabel) Peron. • Franklin D. Roosevelt. • Jomo Kenyatta. • Josip Broz Tito. I ~ ’

I Name: I I I i Country: I l Job description: I I I I I I I values do you have to become Prime Minister or New Zealand? Write an essay or make an election poster outlining how you would govern the country in the twentyfirst century.