Leader Portraits

I've decided to borrow an art lesson from the AB Combs presentation that we viewed this past September during our training. The lesson was the TIME Magazine self-portraits which I really liked. So I created a lesson plan to present to my 6th grade art classes. I started the lesson as I always do by showing them a power point presentation. The slide show begins with this question "What Makes a Person a Leader?" I ask the students this question and they answer... "someone smart, a person that tells us what to do, someone responsible, someone that is proactive, etc." which are all good answers. We begin to view the slides which are actual TIME Magazine covers with portraits of leaders; some well known like Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Bruce Springstein... and others not so well known like our American Soldiers, Michelle Rhee, leader of the Washington D.C. schools, and the creators of GOOGLE. After viewing all the slides a statement is next that reads... You could be on the cover of TIME Magazine someday. I ask the students if they believe that statement and most of them say yes! The next slide asks... "If you were on the cover of TIME magazine, what kind of leader would you be?" Here's the reflective question. What do these 6th grade students imagine for themselves in the future? I want them to imagine images of successful, happy, well adjusted adults that are doing what they love, leaders in what they wish to do in life. So I ask them to look into the future and picture what type of leader they will be. Stay tuned for the Time portrait results, I'm sure they will be very interesting, imaginative and entertaining!