This paper examines joumaling as an effective strategy for teaching leadership constructs and processes in a beginning leadership course. The concept of a 30-question leadership journal, in which the instructor provides weekly questions based on lectures and readings for students to answer, is developed as a tool for teaching leadership. The use of video-tape motion picture clips that depict abstract leadership constructs or provide leadership case studies to critique is also introduced as a teaching tool and source of questions for the journal.
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