Student Leadership
Objective
To develop and maximise the potential of each student leader in Chongfu School in the domains of knowledge, skills and attributes to enable them to become excellent individuals who can contribute effectively to the school, home, community, nation and the world.
Every Student is a Leader
- Comprehensive School Wide Leadership.
- To hone every student’s leadership skills.
- Betterment of self, home, peers, school, community, nation and the world.
- Structured Leadership Development.
- A systematic approach.
- Meaningful opportunities.
Leadership Development
- Leaders:
- Confident
- Strength of character
- Ready to serve
- Adopts Prof Thomas Lickona’s theory:
- Moral Knowing
- Moral Feeling
- Moral Action
- "Head, Heart, Hands” approach in engaging the whole child.
- Learner-centric approach to support students’ learning.
- Aims to impart knowledge, inculcate values and motivate students to take the right actions.
- Formal and informal curricula: knowledge on values and leadership skills.
- Character and leadership can be actualized: Opportunities and experiential learning platforms.
Approach
- Three-prong approach.
- First level: Broad base, represents Personal leadership - Lead Self.
- Second level: Peer leadership - Serve and Lead Peers.
- Third level: People leadership which entails serving and leading at the school level - Lead School.
- Students will be developed as leaders of self and leaders of others through Servant Leadership.
- Students with leadership potential will take on roles as leaders of teams and leaders of leaders.
- Committed leaders guided by sound values and effective life-skills.
Student Leadership Structure
Empowering our Students Leaders through a tiered approach:
- Every student is a leader, a thinking citizen, capable of leading themselves and others.
- Meaningful leadership opportunities in classroom and within school.
