Summary
Watt is elected class president and discovers the job is bigger than the title. He learns that a good leader listens, shares the work, and lets everyone take a role. A quick, funny way into what leadership actually looks like in a classroom.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Three quick questions to run after the short.
- What did Watt think being president would be like, and what was it really like?
- Why did sharing the jobs work better than doing everything himself?
- What is one job in our classroom that everybody helps with?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: leader, president, responsibility.
Try it: Draw one classroom job you could take on this week and write who it helps.