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Leadership Experience Placements
In an effort to promote the value of hands-on and co-curricular learning, all undergraduate Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE) students complete a minimum of 96 hours of community leadership activity experiences as a graduation requirement.
These experiences will engage you in a leadership, administrative, instructional or service capacity related to the wide scope of kinesiology, physical activity, recreation, or applied health.
Our department regularly emails and posts leadership opportunities to Navigator. (examples include coaching, athletic therapy and physiotherapy)
Leadership Policy, Mandatory Training and Procedures
- KPE Undergraduate Advisor must pre-approve all leadership experiences; experiences initiated without prior approval will be disqualified.
- Leadership experience proposals must be submitted for pre-approval using Navigator. Students will know that their proposal is approved when the 'placement record' step changes colour from blue to green.
- Mandatory training needs to be completed prior to initiating a placement proposal.
- Between 2 and 4 placements are required.
- Minimum 16 hours per placement; maximum 80 hours per placement.
- Students may not perform placements where they will be supervised by relatives or fellow undergraduate students.
- Students must submit their hours to their supervisors for approval using Navigator.
Please direct all leadership experience enquiries to kinleadership@wlu.ca.
Placement Type Training
Students must complete training prior to initiating their leadership activity proposals. It is the student’s responsibility to verify that they complete the correct training required by the type of placement they are performing:
All Placements with Laurier
- Young Workers Health and Safety Orientation (MyLS, 1 hour); and
- Young Workers Health and Safety Orientation Part II (Zoom, check course schedule)***
Paid Placements Outside Laurier
- Young Workers Health and Safety Orientation (MyLS, 1 hour)
Unpaid Placements Outside Laurier
- Unpaid Work Placement Health and Safety Orientation (MyLS, 1 hour)
All online training courses are available through MyLearningSpace. Students will find the Self Registration tab on the MyLS home page, in the top left corner.
***The Part II course is only offered once every several weeks. Students must plan ahead to take this course prior to submitting their proposals for on campus experiences. Upon completion, students will enter the date they attended the Zoom class into their proposal. KPE will use this date to verify the student's attendance with the training facilitators.
Students will use Navigator to manage all aspects of their Kinesiology Leadership Experiences. See below links for step-by-step video instructions on:
- How to create Kinesiology Leadership Placement Records
- How to record attendance for Kinesiology Leadership Placements
- How to submit your Kinesiology Leadership Reflection
Please direct any questions to kinleadership@wlu.ca.