CTSO Student Leadership in Action

CTSO Student Leadership in Action:    CTSO Leadership Development in Action is a project-based course in which students integrate higher order thinking, communication, leadership, and management processes to conduct Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) leadership projects at the local, state, or national level.  The class fosters authentic and independent application through CTSO student-directed programs or projects and meets three aligned objectives:  To provide an outlet for students to be socially and emotionally involved within an academic organization; To create student-centered learning opportunities by empowering students to construct and organize their individual program of work; and To develop soft skills that are transferable into college and career success.

 

Length: Semester or Year

Offered: Fall/Spring

Number of Periods per Semester: One

 

Grade Level: 10, 11, 12

Course Prerequisites: None

 

Application: No.  Students must be members of the student organization Business Professionals of America

Tryout : None

Counselor Approval Required: None

 

Dual Credit: No

Weighted: No

 

Diploma Path: Directed Elective or Elective for All 

Quantitative Reasoning: No

 

Other:   As a co-curricular offering this course may have higher fees and associated costs than traditional coursework. 

 

This course combine traditional instruction based on seat time and digital instruction based on flex time.  This course requires a degree of attendance as a normal class (usually 2-3 days a week) and a degree of flex time where work is completed outside of the class room (usually 2-3 days a week.) This course allows students the flexibility to work through the curriculum partially at their own pace while developing academic responsibility.  Typically this class will be offered first or seventh periods.  Students taking this class are best served by arriving shortly before the start of second period or departing immediately after sixth.   Students arriving before second period or remaining after sixth will be placed in a study hall.