The Design of Composition of Teaching Materials for Leadership Courses for Universitas Negeri Medan Students

Abstract

Leadership is a mandatory subject for students at Universitas Negeri Medan. This article is aimed to communicate the researcher's ideas about designing lecture materials which are standard and in line with future competency demands for leadership courses. The teaching materials design is prepared based on the criteria for North Sumatra ethnic leadership values, considering that there are 8 ethnic groups in North Sumatra province. Furthermore, the validity of the design prepared will be tested by material experts, then an FGD will be carried out to disseminate improvements. The results of this paper are that the leadership course material starts from self-leadership management, group leadership, leadership in schools through strategic issues related to students' main activities which include activities of analyzing, evaluating, and finding alternative sources as solutions to various leadership cases in local, regional, national and global levels based on research findings accessed from reputable journals.