Growing Leaders
The sport and recreation environment can be a powerful place to learn about leadership.
Growing Leaders develops leader learning and leadership experiences for young people aged 9-18 years.
Growing Leaders is designed to:
- grow our young people into leaders
- encourage young people to pursue leadership roles in sport and recreation
- give young people self-confidence and leadership tools for life.
Growing Leaders can be used to develop a broad range of leadership roles - for example physical activity leaders, prefects, peer leaders, coaches, managers, sports administrators, sport and recreation officials, outdoor recreation leaders and captains.
The Growing Leaders resource can be used in a huge range of settings – everything from physical education classes, school sport programmes, outdoor education trips, lunchtime and after school recreation activities, sport and recreation clubs to youth groups.
How does the resource work?
Growing Leaders consists of four stages of leader learning - Explore, Discover, Navigate and Empower.
Each of the stages in Growing Leaders includes activities which cover a set of themes and sub themes relating to leadership. These themes and sub themes include Leading Self, Connectedness, Contributing and Influencing, Understanding Others, Relating to and Communicating with Others, Planning to Lead and Leading in Action.
When a Participant successfully completes a stage of Growing Leaders they are awarded a certificate of completion.
What’s included in the resource?
The resource includes a Facilitator’s Guide, learning activities (with Facilitator’s notes) for each stage, a Leader ThinkTank document (which provides additional information about leadership for Facilitators), and completion certificates for each stage. A series of PowerPoint presentations on leadership have also been prepared for Facilitator’s to use.
Who can use the resource/facilitate Growing Leaders?
Potential Growing Leaders facilitators include:
- Primary, intermediate and secondary school teachers
- School sport and recreation coordinators
- Sport and recreation coordinators
- Sport and recreation coaches, leaders and administrators
- Recreation Officers based in Councils
- Youth Group Leaders (for example Boys/Girls Brigade, Guides, Scouts)
- Church groups that run youth programmes.
Where can I get the Growing Leaders resource from?
Hardcopy
Hardcopies of the Growing Leaders resource can be purchased from SPARC Store for $50 plus freight.
This includes: The Growing Leaders Facilitator Resource ring binder, a hard copy of the Facilitator’s Guide, hard copies of activity sheets and facilitator notes for each stage, a hard copy of the certificate of completion for each stage, and a CD-Rom. The CD-Rom includes the Leader ThinkTank document, the Facilitator’s Guide, activity sheets and facilitator notes for each stage, some additional activities, Word templates for creating your own activities, templates for producing your own completion certificates, and PowerPoint Presentations on leadership.
Download
The Growing Leaders resource can be downloaded from the SPARC website.
Other Growing Leaders resources available
- Hardcopies of the Growing Leaders completion certificates can be purchased from SPARC Store for 30 cents each plus freight.
- Participant Leader Journal Folders can be purchased from SPARC Store for $6 each plus freight. Participants can use their Leader Journal Folders to store completed Growing Leaders activities.
Facilitator Workshops
Workshops for people who would like to facilitate Growing Leaders will be held during 2009. For more details call 0800 ACTIVE. Workshop materials include the Growing Leaders resources needed to deliver the programme to young people.
Note: Growing Leaders will replace Sport Leader and the Kiwisport Leadership Award. However, these resources will still be available from SPARC during 2009.
Updated | 26 Mar 2009.
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