Write a paper about Single Parent Families.
Description of the Paper
In this position paper, you as a prospective leader will hypothetically present why do you think a specific issue need to be addressed or discussed on our educational systems at a local/global level; i.e. lack of educational resources in schools. As a prospective leader you will utilize the five practices of exemplary leadership to analyze the issue (and /or) substantiate your rationale for a specific change in relation to that topic.
The issue/topic will be related to leadership, education, globalization, multiculturalism, and the social fabric of the country, concerning the successes, debates and/or controversies surrounding the issue/topic you choose. If you want to choose a different topic outside this list you need to get the instructor approval.
Like a debate, a position paper presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and defensible as a prospective leader who have to solve that issue.
Your job as a prospective leader in this paper is to take one side of the argument and persuade your audience that you have well-founded knowledge of how you are going to address that issue.Ideas that you are considering need to be carefully examined in choosing a topic, developing your argument, and organizing your paper. It is very important to ensure that you are addressing the topic from a transformational leadership perspective. It is important to support your argument with evidence from the class readings or other leadership resources.
To take a side on a subject, you should first establish the arguability of a topic that interests you. Ask yourself the following questions to ensure that you will be able to present a strong argument:
1. What is the general topic?
2. Why you are interested in this topic?
3. Present a background information to identify the reader with what is going on?
4. What are the two sides of the argument in relation to this topic? Or what is the issue that need to be solved?
5. Are you personally interested in advocating to a specific approach to solve the issue? Or what is your leadership vision to solve a topic
6. Present how you can solve this issue utilizing some of the exemplary leadership practices presented in Kouzes and Posner?
7. Make sure to present how you will be considering the dimensions of ethical leadership either in: presenting the issue, analyzing the issue, or on the side you will take in your solution.