Week 11, blogpost by the Star, Samuel

Hi everyone!
I'm Samuel and this week I was the Star of Ladies & Gentlemen's group.
This week, our task was doing our presentation but in a special way: it had to be like an electoral speech.
All groups were nice, but we did a little performance simulating an interview. Pedro introduced me as "Little Michi", I really love that nick, then I started to talk. Meanwhile, Mitchell, Stina, Louise and Ebru were my interviewers, so they asked me some questions.
At the end of that scene, Pedro took a paper in which "Next Day" was written. The fake next day I recieved a letter, handed over Mitchell, and after reading it, I simulated a call with my mum. Then, next day, my character, as the new headmaster, was introduced to children.

I hope people had fun with it because, in some way, I love making little performances and to improvise funny things. I think "Dramatic Arts" bachillerato helped me to be like this.
I hope fun too, but it was too hard for me to be serious because, as you know, I'm a very smiling person.

That was all Folks, see you next week.
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Samuel

Week 11, post by the analyst, Pedro

Hello, I'm Pedro from Ladies&Gentlemen and this one was my second week as analyst. As the other time, I have to say that I'm very proud of every member of my group again.
On Monday, as every week, we decided the roles for each member of our group. But it was on Tuesday when we were available to meet and do our work about Leadership.
I have to say that after only two or three hours, we left the work almost finished, at expense for our individual preparation.
This week we have shown that we have done it. The same as we admit that our group started a little lost because of the distance we live and the lack of trust between us, this week we have demonstrated the amazing progress we have made, finishing our work so easily and so effectively. And the satisfaction is even greater when you realize that this moment has arrived on the exams of June's eve. And even more when several peers in other groups give you the congratulations for the work that you have done.
We are finishing, we have the last squeeze to try to overcome a course which says us goodbye. I know that maybe I'm not the right one to tell you this. But as the last role that I exercise as the analyst, I feel compelled to wish the maximum encouragement to each member of my group and to each of my classmates.
See you ;)

Week 11, post by the Curator, Mitchell

Hello everyone!
This week we did an activity where we learned about different types of leadership, which I found very interesting because I myself have worked with many different "bosses" and I have always liked comparing them, and obviously try to be more like the one I have liked best.
Here you can acces the same link we did to learn a little bit more about leadership styles

https://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2016_N_N/Bilingual%20Group/Tasks/Leadership%20texts/leadership.pdf

If you cannot acces the link here I give you the reference so that you can look for it,
Hoyle, John R. "Leadership Styles." Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2006. 595- 98. SAGE Reference Online. Web. 30 Jan. 2012

Have a nice weekend!!

 

Week 11, blogpost by the journalist - Louise

Hi everyone!!

This week I was the journalist and the group dynamic of this week has been really well. We have been understanding and been taking care of our time limits and made the best of the situation. On Monday we just summoned everything up and that was it, Tuesday we worked on really hard to finish as soon is possible because we have a lot of different classes to take care about. And Tuesday night everyone was practicing their parts. So to summon are dynamic for this week, we can say that; it was good! 

I believe that our group have been working hard the times we could, because of our classes we always have to put in much effort in those few hours we have on Tuesdays. Because of our classes. The time table is not really cooporating with us all the time. 

But here is some evidence of the weekly work


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Week 11, blogpost by the Facilitator - Stina

Hi everyone!!

This week I was the facilitator and the task was about showing four different types of leadership. Authoritarian, participative, transactional and transformational leadership.


The began with us, summing up the text that we got from Linda. We read some of the text each and decided to bring some our ideas for how to make a campaign of it. The next day we had the ideas and we decided to make a theatre, and the play was supposed to be about a principal having his final speech as a part of his campaign. We got this idea really quick and it seemed that everyone liked it so we just worked along nicely this week. I think everyone did a good job. And as the Facilitator I tried to share as much of my ideas as possible and then let everyone have a say about it. I think I decided a lot of things this week and I hope my group was okay about it.

My thoughts about the roles is that there are no way that you only can apply only one leadership role when you are a leader, principal, teacher. Every situation will need a different kind of handeling things. And when I was thinking deeply about it I believe that the ground rules, the rules that says "this is the way our schools is running or stands for", can be lead by the authoritarian leadership, because those are rules you must imply without asking or having someone in mind while applying them. And the. You continue to lead with transformational, with a bit more changeable rules , and then participative and later transactional. Every role has it pros and cons so there is no easy way to only use one of the roles. If you do you will get a hard time leading!

Hasta luego!

Week 11, blogpost by the Translator, Ebru

Hello everyone !

I am Ebru. This week I am the translator of the group. As you already know, I will try to mention about five most important topics about this week task.This is our 11th week and we are getting closer to the end. By the way as the Linda said in the class, when we compare beginning part and now, we can clearly see how we are developed. This motivate us and make us work harder and do better. Now, let's look at 5 important concepts of this week.

-Leadership styles:  Leadership style consists of a leader's general personality, demeanor, and communication patterns in guiding others toward reaching organizational or personal goals.

-Authoritarian leaders: Who is on the top and takes decision.It is stated in the text that people must be forced to work, closely supervised, and rewarded or punished based on individual productivity.

-Participative leaders: This kind of leaders work colloboratively with group members, love each other and they are like family. It is stated in the text that  productivity and human relationships were closely linked, and opened inquiry into informal structures and social systems.

-Transactional Leaders: They are like that ' If you give me, I will give you.' That is to say there are rewards and punishment.

- Transformational Leaders: They always pay attention to develop themselves and looking for the future.
That's all for this week. See you in next task !!
#Ebru#

Week 10, Post by the translator, Pedro

Hi everyone. This week I'm the translator of my group, Ladies&Gentlemen.

- Stop motion: a technique in which successive position of objects or people are photographed to produce the appearance of movement.
- Decalogue: basic rules for an activity.
- Inclusive education: A prototype of school in which there are no selection processes of students or any type of discrimination against them with the objective of defending educational rights, equality of opportunities and participation.
- Ratio: the maximum number of students that a teacher can has per classroom.
- Advertisement: It is a notice which attract public attention.