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Assignmet
A research paper in APA format 3 pages. Explain how mission command was or was not used in this case study.
Activity: Writing Thesis Statements
A thesis statement is one or two sentences which express the main idea of your paper.
A thesis statement:
1. Provides author with a direction to write his or her paper; and
2. Provides the reader with an idea as to what the paper will be about.
In the activities that follow, construct a thesis statement for each of the topic questions. For each question,
1. Write a declaration (you opinion on the topic you can agree or disagree),
2. Three reasons to support your declaration,
3. One reason to oppose your declaration, and
4. A thesis statement for each.
The first example has been completed for you. Follow this example closely for the remaining four topic questions.
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Topic Question
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Should high school students have a curfew?
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Declaration/Opinion on the Topic
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High school students should have an enforced curfew.
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Three Reasons to Support your Opinion
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1. Students are less likely to get into trouble if they are home.
2. Students need their rest for school.
3. Being behind the wheel of a vehicle during the early morning hours increases their chances of accidents.
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One Reason to Oppose your Opinion
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1. The police officers have more important things to worry about than whether or not a high school student is out after curfew.
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Thesis Statement
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Even though police officers have more important things to worry about, high school students should have an enforced curfew because students need their rest for school and are less likely to get into trouble or have accidents if the curfew is enforced.
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Leadership Learning Competency
Effective Leadership
1. SCOPE
At the end of this one-hour lesson you will be able to support Soldiers to grow as capable leaders who use creative and critical thinking to overcome regular and irregular challenges in the operational environment.
2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This lesson supports MLC400-0420 Leadership Learning Competency TLO, "Compose new operational approaches to regular and irregular problems using critical and creative thinking and effective leadership attributes" as listed in the M400 advance sheet.
Action: Employ the Leadership Requirements Model to support individual and Soldier growth.
Condition: As a student and senior leader attending the MLC, using an organizational-level leadership perspective in notional tactical, operational and strategic-level environments, given references, practical exercises and classroom discussions.
Standard: Employment includes:
1. Define Army leadership and what the Army considers a leader;
2. Identify the purpose of leadership;
3. Recall the components of the Leadership Requirements Model; and
4. Compare the similarities and differences of leadership attributes versus management skills.
Learning Domain: Cognitive
Level of Learning: Understanding
Action: Evaluate types of leadership.
Condition: As a student and senior leader attending the MLC, using an organizational-level leadership perspective in notional tactical, operational and strategic-level environments, given references, practical exercises and classroom discussions.
Standard: Evaluation includes:
1. Define each type;
2. Distinguish between management and leadership types; and
3. Determine how emotional intelligence relates to leadership types.
Learning Domain: Cognitive
Level of Learning: Understanding
Action: Enhance critical and creative thinking skills.
Condition: As a student and senior leader attending the MLC, using an organizational-level leadership perspective in notional tactical, operational and strategic-level environments, given references, practical exercises and classroom discussions.
Standard: Enhancement includes:
1. Explain what critical and creative thinking is; and
2. Provide an example related to leadership attributes.
Learning Domain: Cognitive
Level of Learning: Understanding
Characteristics of the Future Operational Environment: None
Linking Warfighting Challenges to Required Capabilities:
1. Train Soldiers and leaders to ensure they are prepared to accomplish the mission across the range of military operations while operating in complex environments against determined, adaptive enemy organizations.
Effective Leadership reinforces to Soldiers and leaders the importance of combat effectiveness. Effective Leadership aids in the combat effectiveness by measuring the ability of a military force to accomplish its objective. The effectiveness of a military unit in performing its mission depends on its capabilities including equipment and personnel and its ability to use those capabilities. Soldiers must be instructed in the use of their weapons as well as in battlefield tactics needed to fight as a coordinated team.
3. ISSUE MATERIAL
a. Advance Issue: M420 Advance sheet.
b. During class: None
4. ASSIGNED STUDENT REQUIREMENTS
Scan:
Reading A, ADP 6-22, Army Leadership, 1 August 2012, with Change 1 dated 10 September 2012, pages 1 thru 9.
5. ASSESSMENT PLAN: Refer to Communications Learning Competency M400 advance sheet for all information on all assessments.
Attachment:- MLC-The-Accidental-Statesman-BASE-DOCUMENT.pdf