Solutions
Individualized
Consideration
- Open dialogue and develop relationships to meet specific needs of students
- College Positive Volunteer trainings empower volunteers to connect with students and understand where they are coming from
- Breakdown stereotypes and misunderstandings on a personal basis, allowing for more successful interactions in the classroom
- Lack of efficient communication
- Approach the situation from different ways in order to open up better communication and allow for more understanding
- Strive to challenge previous beliefs!
- President
- Mentors
- Children
- President needs to be more hands on
- Mentors need to be better trained
- Hold a high moral standard
- Build better relationships
- The president needs to cast a vision
- Mentors need to see a purpose
- The president must encourage the mentors, who in turn encourage students
- Mentors must have the resources and training they need.
Problems
Future Consequences
- Volunteers remain ignorant/culturally insensitive
- Children cannot reach full potential
- Volunteers may quit
- Community outreach program may be removed from working with school district
-Violate TL due to fact that...
- individual needs and motives not realized/communicated
- cannot be transformed/reach full potential
-Problems stem from relationship of mentors and students AS WELL AS relationship of president and mentors
-Bass's model of Transformational Leadership:
- Idealized influence
- Individual consideration
- Intellectual stimulation
- Inspiration motivation
Case Study
Problems
(1) Student volunteers are failing to connect with elementary school children
- volunteers: white, middle- to upper-class
- children: urban, low income, Native American community
(2) Socioeconomic and cultural barriers create lack of understanding between volunteers and children/families
(3) Complaints from teachers about inability of volunteers to comprehend childrens' needs
Case Study in Transformational Leadership
The Prideful Pack