PL300 focuses on four of these levels the soldier, the unit, the leader, and the Army and the key leadership issues associated with each. Additionally, the course is interdisciplinary in nature, challenging the cadets to develop critical thinking skills and promoting active, creative, and innovative approaches to problem solving. PL300 also provides cadets a rational approach for thinking about Army leadership challenges. It teaches cadets to stop and think about what they are doing, rather than automatically applying past experience to new situations. The Process Our teaching of leadership is grounded in our philosophy of active learning.
Cadets are responsible for their own learning and the mastery of course content.
Our instructors military officers with recent command experience at the company level from Desert Storm to the NTC and from Bosnia to the DMZ facilitate learning and demonstrate the application of the knowledge to leadership issues that cadets face in the Corps and will face as Army officers. We say the instructor plays a vital transducer role in the course, one of relating theory to practice and relating the leadership challenges of the gray cadet world to those in the BDU Army world. Instructors have been given great latitude in developing innovative and creative teaching strategies for bringing their leadership experiences into the cadet classroom. Cadets are evaluated on their ability to translate theory and experience into application. Each of these evaluations are designed to be leadership take-aways, that is, materials whose later usefulness to cadets highlights the relevance of PL300 to their roles as future Army officers.