Teaching through Leading: The Virginia Military Rat Challenge Program
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Holly Richardson, Mike Krackow, Jack Johnson, Chad Joyce and James Coale
Department of Physical Education, Virginia Military Institute
Teaching through Leading:The Virginia Military
Rat Challenge Program
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Introduction
• VMI - state supported school• Citizen Soldier and ROTC• Graduate individuals with strong leadership
skills• Over 200 leadership opportunities
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Leadership Opportunities
• Regimental• Athletics• Peer Counseling• Band and Glee• Search and Rescue• Pre Professional programs
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The Rat Challenge Program
• Experiential-Ten weeks• Physical, mental, emotional• Supportive and positive• Reflective of the Regimental • Esprit de corps
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Rat Challenge existing in anAdversarial System
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Objectives
Determine value and worth of the program compared to other
leadership programs
Determine the extent participation contributed to development of leadership skills
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Methods
• Post program evaluation– Qualitative-open ended questions– Quantitative-Likert type of questions
• Convenient sampling 57/80 (71%) Cadre
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Results-Effectiveness
• How do you rank the effectiveness of the cadre role as a means of developing leadership skills?More effective 32.8%Most effective 58.6%
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Results-Value
• Given the educational mission of the Institute, how valuable for the cadre is the Rat Challenge experience?
Very valuable 34.5%
Extremely valuable 62.1%
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Results: Ability, Skills, & Unity
• Percentage of responses that were a ‘great deal’ or quite a lot’– Leadership ability 91.2%
– Decision making skills 87.7%
– Communication skills 91.2%
– Develop unity of spirit 94.7%
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Cadre Comments
• ‘More PT (physical training)’• ‘More privileges’• ‘Better than even my Reg. staff position for leadership
development.’• ‘Taught me I should prepare before instructing’• ‘It helped me understand what I wanted my
leadership style to be.’
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Conclusion
• Valuable• Effective• Skills• Abilities
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Discussion-Why? How?
• Based on theory and practice• Supervised• Environment• Cadets
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Questions