Week 9, blogpost by the star, Stina

Hello everyone!

This week I was the star of our group Ladies & Gentlemen and the task was about expressing the different relationsships complexities by recording them.

First of, we started by telling what relationship we thought was the most complex. I chose the relationship between teacher and student but I ended up recording the relationship between peers. When my group were complete we went to an empty classroom and started to record. Well, I told them what I had in mind and let my group have opinions about it and tell me if they wanted to do something els. But everyone seemed pleased with the idea. So we ended up making a silent movie by showing the complex relationship by peers.
My group was a very ambitious group. At first very quiet but later they had many great ideas and I think the movie ended up really well. I'm glad that the members of the group are really easy to work with and really supportive of each other. I had a blast.

Now to my reflections...

I still think that the teacher - student relationship is the most complex. Just because relationships between humans overall is complex. And also because this relationship is what all the other complexities are based on. If the teacher - student relationship is a good one the connections within learning will be easier and also connections within learning will be more effective if the peers are surrounded with positivitsm and a safe environment of learning. I believe that every connection or relationships has some kind of foundation. I mean, we can say that, for example, if I want to start a new political partie I need a foundation of how my political partie will grow and what ideological ground I am going to have. Therefore everything needs a foundation to grow. And in my case by choosing the teacher-student relationship as the mose complex, I will say that it is the most complex just because we need, as teachers, to know how we should make this relationship or connection the best to make everything els work. If I have a problem with a relationship with one of my peers, we will have a hard time cooporating in class and make learning fun and interesting.

And to link this with the movie we made, showing the complexity between peers, it is important for a teacher to be a rolemodel and have good relationships with all the students, to show the students that it is possible to have good relationships no matter how different you are. And if you can show that, as a teacher, the peers will hopefully copy your way of engaging with all the peers, to eachother.

And I want to finish this reflection by saying that, the moste amazing thing with the profession as a teacher is that you can refer to anything to explain the complexity of the school organization. For example, make up. You need a good foundation to make the eyeshadow stay through the whole day. You do not begin with the eyeshadow and then using the foundation. Because then the eyeshadow will not show. Did I make my point clear? I hope I did.

Thank you guys for this week it has been really fun!

Hasta luego!

P.S
HERE is our video (without music, because there came some other important things in the way, but the music will be there on mondays presentation).