1. Building Leadership in Boys

3. Do You Like Chicken? Get ready to “Move It”!

4. What just happened? You’ve just been motivated out of your comfort zone!

5. MOTIVATION IS THE KEY TO HELPING BOYS REACH THEIR POTENTIAL. How do we end up with the leaders of tomorrow?

6. Is the question Nature or Nurture? Could the answer be BOTH?

7. TIME FOR SOME FUN!

8. THE ALPHA MALE Outgoing Friendly Intelligent (Socially) Powerful Confident Social Group Leaders Bossy Egocentric Know-it-all Domineering Manipulative Cocky MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY!

9. Movie Time

10. Characteristics of Leadership Respectful Resourceful Takes Initiative Consistent A Good Communicator Flexible Enthusiastic A Problem Solver

11. How Do We Get Them To Be Leaders?

12. Strategies to use in the classroom: Provide consistent modeling. Require respect for everyone all the time. Allow for freedom of inquiry and respectful expression. Provide opportunities to share ideas and creative thinking. Create mentoring experiences with other children. Display work samples or photos of the children working appropriately.

13. And Always Make It FUN!

14. Strategies -Reading- Provide a variety of material.  Non-Fiction  Newspapers  Magazines (sports, cars, motocross)  “How To” manuals  Atlas/Maps/Travel Brochures  Cookbooks  + much, much more  Fiction  Historical fiction  Mystery novels  Plays  Poetry  Sing-A-Longs  + much, much more Also…

15. Reading strategies cont. Allow for paired or “buddy reading” Character Dress-up Day 100 Book Challenge Mentor Reading Take It Outside

16. Strategies for Math Make it visual or tactile Use Manipulatives ( allow for experimentation ) Paired or Team activities ( competition is key ) Use music, songs, or dance ( patterns ) “Student Teachers”  If you know it, then teach it And…

18. ****Use Interactive Computer Games**** funbrain.com factmonster.com pbskids.com mathplayground.com coolmath4kids.com mathgoodies.com rainforestmaths.com bigbrainz.com rickyspears.com/rulergame kaboose.com/games

19. Strategies for science and social studies MAKE IT COME ALIVE!

20. Science and Social Studies Cont. Use physical space to represent concepts (North, South, East, West) Use your body to represent geographical features of the earth (plains, hill, mountain) Become a historical character Make your own tomb and fill it Make a pyramid Google Earth Make Volcanoes and explode them!!!!!! Play kickball to learn force & motion Grow a plant from a seed Cook hot dogs in a solar oven Light a bulb using a simple circuit (wire and a battery)

21. Ready for more fun????

22. Thank you very much for attending this session. I hope that you have learned something today and that your time was well spent.