Leadership Skills Worksheet: Taking Responsibility
Leader's tip (Own it, fix it): Responsible: owning up to a mistake, doing your class duty, returning borrowed books, reporting a broken bench, checking your own work. Irresponsible: blaming a teammate, saying “not my job”, hiding a broken item, leaving the mess behind, waiting to be told. A responsible reply owns the problem and says how it will be fixed: “I forgot the chart. I will bring it tomorrow before class.”
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- 1.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 2.📝 You notice a mistake in your homework that the teacher marked right. What is honest? (a) tear the page out (b) tell the teacher (c) keep quiet (d) change a friend’s work
- 3.True or false: “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 4.🧪 Your group got a low mark because your part had errors. What should you say? (a) “The others did badly.” (b) “The teacher is unfair.” (c) “My part had errors.” (d) “Marks do not matter.”
- 5.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “It is my turn to water the plants. I will do it now.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) cleaning up after art (c) blaming a teammate (d) doing your fair share
- 7.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: cleaning up after art? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 8.True or false: “blaming a teammate” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🪑 You see a broken bench in class that could hurt someone. What is best? (a) ignore it (b) tell nobody (c) sit on it anyway (d) report it to a teacher
- 10.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: blaming the weather? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 11.True or false: “I didn’t do my part because nobody told me again.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 12.True or false: “cleaning up after art” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 13.📚 You lost a library book. What is the responsible step? (a) hide it and stay quiet (b) tell the librarian (c) say it was never issued (d) blame your brother
- 14.True or false: “The chart is late because my team is useless.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 15.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 16.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I forgot the chart. I will bring it tomorrow before class.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 17.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: leaving the mess behind? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 18.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) blaming a teammate (b) doing your fair share (c) skipping your duty (d) blaming the weather
- 19.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) saying “not my job” (b) waiting to be told (c) blaming a teammate (d) cleaning up after art
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hiding a broken item (b) fixing what you broke (c) blaming the weather (d) skipping your duty
- 21.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: losing borrowed books? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 22.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) doing your class duty (b) returning borrowed books (c) hiding a broken item (d) cleaning up after art
- 23.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 24.True or false: “I forgot the chart. I will bring it tomorrow before class.” is an excuse. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🧹 It is your turn to clean the board, but your friends are going out to play. What do you do? (a) clean the board first (b) ask a friend to lie (c) leave it for tomorrow (d) pretend you forgot
- 26.True or false: “It’s not my fault — the others were too slow.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 27.True or false: “fixing what you broke” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “It’s not my fault — the others were too slow.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 29.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) saying “not my job” (b) waiting to be told (c) checking your own work (d) hiding a broken item
- 30.True or false: “checking your own work” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 31.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: hiding a broken item? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 32.🌱 You are the class monitor and the class plants look dry before a long holiday. What do you do? (a) water them before you go (b) water them next month (c) wait for someone else (d) leave them dry
- 33.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) blaming a teammate (b) losing borrowed books (c) blaming the weather (d) fixing what you broke
- 34.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) saying “not my job” (b) blaming the weather (c) leaving the mess behind (d) returning borrowed books
- 35.True or false: “owning up to a mistake” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 36.True or false: “It’s not my fault — the others were too slow.” is an excuse. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: checking your own work? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 38.True or false: “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 39.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) doing your class duty (b) waiting to be told (c) cleaning up after art (d) owning up to a mistake
- 40.True or false: “checking your own work” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- an excuse
- tell the teacher
- True
- “My part had errors.”
- a responsible reply
- blaming a teammate
- responsible
- True
- report it to a teacher
- irresponsible
- True
- False
- tell the librarian
- True
- a responsible reply
- a responsible reply
- irresponsible
- doing your fair share
- cleaning up after art
- fixing what you broke
- irresponsible
- hiding a broken item
- an excuse
- False
- clean the board first
- False
- False
- an excuse
- checking your own work
- False
- irresponsible
- water them before you go
- fixing what you broke
- returning borrowed books
- True
- True
- responsible
- False
- waiting to be told
- True
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