Lessons in Leadership

By: Austin Higgins

Mr. McPartland is teaching the class lessons in leadership for the second year this year. The class covers twenty different good traits of leaders. You are given a book, Role Models, for the class and each week you read a chapter. There are twenty chapters in the book, each chapter covers a person and what trait they represent. Every week a quiz is taken for the chapter and at the end of the week Mr. McPartland plays a movie about that week’s trait. The role models in the book range from people who lived during the civil war all the way to people living in the modern times. 
Last year Mr. McPartland’s class had twenty-two students, this year there is only eight students. When asked Mr. McPartland said that he likes both class sizes. He liked how the bigger class could have more discussions but he likes that the smaller class know eachother more. He said that he likes teaching the class and likes how the curriculum is set up. Mr. McPartland said that he likes how it’s more of an upper level class and likes how they can have more mature discussions about values, morals and ethics.
The class was originally suggested by Dr. Johnson. Both Mr. McPartland and Dr. Johnson attended a seminar about the class and decided that Boone should teach it. They both had to decide how they were going to teach it and how many semesters it would cover. They finally decided that the class would be taught for one semester.