Syllabus

Course name: Skills for Leadership and Management

Grade level: 12
Prerequisites: None
Course This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of management,
description: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. The basic concepts of
management for high school level will be provided in both concepts and
practical terms such as knowledge management, decision making, teamwork,
motivating for performances, communicating, leadership, change
management, and managing technologies and innovation. Students will work
both in groups and individually. The projects consist of personal development
projects for university applications, social change innovation and junior
achievement company project. Various self- empowerment practices will be
organized to suit student learning through formative and summative
evaluation.
Unit outline: UNIT Contents
1 – Foundations of • Introduction to Leadership
Leadership and • Introduction to Management
management • Leadership VS Management
• Core skills for 21st century
2 – Personal • Introspection to grow your self-awareness and
development sensibility
Project • Emotional intelligence
3 – Leadership • Leadership and social change
Through Social • Change rational Approach
Influence • 6 ways technology are breaking barriers to social
change
4 – Leadership • Company structure and student’s role within a
Business Project company
• Company capitalization
• Customer-product focus
• Product-market pricing
• Company operations
• Product sales
• Company liquidation
Evaluations and Quizzes, Class works and projects.
assessments: Final Projects
Leadership Business project
The project requires a diverse group of students to create a company.
This allows students to engage in academically challenging, and
experiential learning in leadership and management education. The
students will apply their entrepreneurial and managerial skills to
design how they operate their own company, while recognize the
significant of personal responsibility.
 Grade Plan
Grading in this class will be based on points. Each graded item will be worth a
set number of points and your grade for an assignment will be based on a
percentage of the possible points you earned. You can expect that the
percentage break-down between different types of grades to follow the plan
listed below:

90-100% A Consistently exhibit outstanding performance

85-89% B+ Exhibit very good Performance most of the time
80-84% B Exhibit good performance most of the time
75-79% C+ Meet requirements, satisfactory
70-74% C Meet requirements, fair
65-69% D+ Experiencing difficulty, but making progress
60-64% D Experiencing difficulty, need improvement
0-59% F Failing the subject

Classroom MUIDS is an international school, and as such, the way that the class is
expectations: conducted may be different than what you are used to, particularly if you
come from a Thai program. In order to prepare you for University, in which
class discussion is an integral component, the participation portion of your
grade will be based on you contributing to the discussions in class. This means
all students must be prepared to share their ideas in spoken English. I set
clear deadlines for the submission of assessed work. You must meet such
deadlines or obtain permission to submit work after the deadline. The late
submission penalties applied to coursework submitted after the published
deadline are:
• Up to and including 24 hours after the deadline: 0.5 points are
deducted from the participation score;
• More than 24 hours and up to and including 7 days after the
deadline: additional 0.5 points are deducted from the participation
score for each day;
• More than 7 days after the deadline: a 50% of the final score will be
deducted for that work or zero mark will be awarded if you not turn
in any work.
Materials needed None
for the course: