Student Leadership: Basic Skills and Appropriate Activities

Abstract

This research tried to highlight the importance of teaching leadership skills to students from an early age. Moreover, it attempted to identify and explain the basic leadership qualities and skills for students. This research also tried to determine and give a brief explanation of the activities related to each student leadership skill. Thus, this paper contributed to provide a theoretical framework for researchers conducting empirical studies or action research in this field. For this purpose, it proposed a questionnaire for quantitative studies that consisted of two sections. The first section requested respondents (such as school principals and teachers) to identify leadership skills acquired by students in schools through curricular and/or extra-curricular activities; the second section requested them to spot the obstacles inhibiting students from acquiring these skills.