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Enhance a Course

Use these resources to enhance ethical leadership and personal strengths development in your students within your existing classroom activities. The more opportunities students have to develop their ability to lead ethically and exhibit personal strengths, the more prepared they will be for success. Consider the ideas and activities within this resource area to enrich existing activities in your course and to demonstrate your own qualities to deeply engage and inspire students. Most activities take 10 to 50 minutes to deliver in class. Add the activities to the syllabus to best prepare students and to place their learning and experience within the course context.

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Plan a Course

Use this 10-minute activity to plan out your course enhancement

Use this 5-minute activity to reinforce honor concepts in your course syllabus

Use this 5-minute activity at the start of class to establish an ethical classroom climate

Explore Leadership Development Activities

Use this 10-minute activity for in-class leadership role playing activities

Use this 5-minute activity for in-class debates on ethics and leadership

Use this 10-minute activity as an ethics and leadership in-class exercise

Use this 5-minute activity outside of class to develop leadership through mentor relationships

Use this activity for in-class emotional intelligence role playing activities

Use this activity for in-class role playing activities focused on the concepts of power and influence

Use this activity for in-class role playing activities focused on having challenging conversations

Use this activity based on the AFCLC BIC Model for Challenging Conversations

Explore Ethical Decision-Making Activities

Use this 10-minute activity for enhancing leadership and ethics discussions within existing course cases

Use this 10-minute activity for an in-class ethical and leadership role play exercise

Use this 10-minute activity to enhance ethics discussions around current event articles

Explore Team Activities

Use any of the three activities outlined in this 20-minute activity to provide students a “VUCA” experience

Use this 10-minute activity to enhance ethical leadership with student teams in class

Use this 10-minute activity to bring out leadership experiences in team activities

Use this activity as guidance towards giving feedback with high performing teams

Use this activity as guidance on how to receive feedback with high performing teams

Additional Resources: AFCLC Research Focus

Use this 5-minute activity when considering research areas related to the concept of Honor