LEADERSHIP, TASK 9

TASK

SPEECH

Hello people, how are you? I’m going to introduce myself: I’m Paula Martinez and I'm working at the Flower Power public school in the countryside, near Murcia. Our school is not big enough, we have only one class for each course of primary education and each course have a tutor. Also, if we have any doubt we can go to our advisor. The facilities are formed by a playground, a gym, a small pool and a canteen.
We are starting to work by PBL and we are starting to take time for the emotions.

I want to be the leader of this school due to I want to improve the educational system and the academic performance of our students.

Ladies and gentlemen, the rules are going to be created by and for those within the school, searching for the best present and future for our students. 

We dream of getting in touch with our students to create a new type of leadership in our school, which is totally the opposite of the authoritarian leadership. 
From our point of view a change is necessary and you’ll ask Why a change is necessary? Because we are accustomed to listen the word LEADER and automatically we think about a person who impose ideas without listening others opinions, he/she is insensitive to race and gender and for him/her people must be forced to work. 

On the other hand, we don’t promote punishment such as the transactional leader. If you are wrong, we do not punish you, we will help you to see the mistake and improve your work. 

A transformational leader would be fine but maybe in the future when we achieve some of our objectives, not now. 

I’m going to struggle to change your opinion about the concept of LEADER because we are fed up with this situation, THAT’S WHY I’M HERE. I’m here to:

-GUARANTEE that I’m going to listen the concerns of everyone.
-GUARANTEE that I’m going to understand all of you.
-GUARANTEE that we are going to work together in order to reach goals easily. 
-GUARANTEE that I’m going to create a family atmosphere. 
-GUARANTEE that I’m going to respect the contribution of each member.

All of you are going to have the same opportunities, opportunities to participate opportunities to communicate your concerns and everything in a safe environment.

Our thought is based on moral principles for that reason we want vocational and professional teachers.

We can’t forget our students’ opinions. We want to make their school life unforgettable! They will remind us for what they have truly learned, not for what we have imposed them. In addition, we have reflect about some ideas that we are sure, our student will love it:

1. Ask them about some actual topics in which they are interested in.
2. Ask them in what type of physical activities are interested in, such as basket, football, jumping the rope…
3. Each month we can do a coexistence for helping shy guys, also to know well each other and sharing experiences.
4. We want to remove textbooks and we are going to use more ICT.
5. We want to introduce an ecological garden, too.

We want to help our students to get the best of themselves, help them to develop their own personality, to be different and original. Not all of us stand out in the same way but all of us are unique, we are all worth for something! We will let your creativity and fantasy grow and everyone will know it. 

WE WILL AWAKE THE BEST PART OF YOU, DON´T BE AFRAID AND BE YOURSELF.

DON’T VOTE FOR ME, VOTE FOR YOU.

REFLECTION

This task consisted of giving a speech as if you were the candidate to get the leader position. The goal was to improve the school in complex institutions trying to do the best of ourselves.

From our point of view, the participative leader was the best leadership because we found it balanced and not extremist at all. The others did not convince us because the authoritarian leader is a person who impose ideas without listening others opinions, he/she is insensitive to race and gender and for him/her people must be forced to work. The transactional leader promotes punishment and the transformational leader would be fine but maybe in the future when we achieve some of our objectives, not now.

ROLES 

Star

Hello Flowers! I’m Paula Martínez Plaza and this week I’ve been the star!

On Monday, I was so expectant when we divided up the roles because something in my inner thoughts was saying that I was going to be the star, so it was. We had to make a speech and on Wednesday I had to expose it during ten minutes as if I wanted to be the leader of the school.

At the evening, my classmates and I started to write the speech and from our point of view, we did quite well. Furthermore, we did a Powtoon, which is an interactive video, for the campaign.

On Wednesday, I was nervous but at the same time excited and motivated. After some groups, it was my turn, my partners put some balloons around the class and I gave my speech. In this moment, I felt strange because I did something that I did I never thought I could do due to I’m very shy. At the end, some of my classmates congratulated me and our teacher said that all of the groups were saying many beautiful things about education.

Finally, I’m very proud with the result of this task because it has been a very cooperative work and they have helped and encouraged me a lot.

Journalist

Hi!!! I am Elena Torres Soto and this week I am the journalist of my group Flower Power. My duty in this role is to tell you what we have done to obtain the results of this task.

The task of this week has been very interested since we have learned the different types of leadership styles and how they should act to contribute to a better education style. We have been working a lot and this week we haven’t had any problema since we were very well organized. 

The star of this task was Paula who was a great candidate for the elections and I strongly think that she talked during all the discourse in a very motivating way. 

We enjoyed it a lot!!!

Facilitator

Hi everyone! I’m Berta Tornel and I’m the facilitator of this week.

Our objective this week was to present a candidate to be the leader of a school.

The candidate was the star, in our group Paula Martínez Plaza. To do the task we had to read a document about the different leadership styles and choose one. We decided to do the participative style which consists in a leader that is above everyone, but that doesn't impose his rules. We believe this leader is a great leader because he really seeks the best for the people.

After knowing which style we divided the work. Some of us took charged on the artistic things and the other finding ideas to do the speech. Making the speech was the worst thing of this task because we were blocked often due to we wanted to do our best and because we were all the time thinking that the speech was too short.

As a good facilitator, I was there to motivate my group and I brought some sweets that they loved. I help in everything I could. Our group has a very good connection and we work very well together. I’m very happy with my group.

The day of the elections, our star Paula, did an amazing speech, obviously she is our winner. What strike my attention was that almost all the group choose the participative style except Starfish group that chose transactional and Sparcers 2.0 that choose transformational. 

To be honest, I loved this task because it was no so difficult and we worked very well.

Translator

Hi everyone! I'm Paula Martínez García and this is my second time as translator, so my objective is to tell you what are the new concepts we hace learned this week.

Authoritarian leaders: Those who manipulate people, they are insensitive to race and gender, people must be forced yo work.

Participative leaders: Totally the opposit of authoritarian leader. Workers are treat with dignity. The motivation and comunication is very important to create more productivity. They work in groups and it's like a family.

Transcational leaders: It balance the dynamics of balancing the needs and productivity of the organization with the needs and productivity of the organization with the needs, personality and dispositions of people doing the work. They reflect the reality of the workplace and continues to be the predominant model in most organizations. 

Tranformational leaders: Is a moral leadership where they create an environment where everyone is empowered to fulfill their needs and become a member of a community.

Leadership: The position of a leader who guides a group.

Curator - Farmer

Hello everyone !!!! My name is Rocío Muñoz. In this task I am the curator farmer so my role consist of collecting all the links that we have used in our work. In addition I have added a video which was showed  the last Wednesday to help our star Paula to impose her ideas.

The document that we used is on the internet and is called "Leadership Styles." (Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration) as the name of the task and all the information was collected from this document.

Finally on Wednesday we distributed some brochures and I have included the link of the page used too.

Analyst

Hi!! I’m Aintzane and I am the analyst of this week!

The task of this week has been about leadership. We had to do a campaign, so, on Wednesday our star Paula, gave a speech in order to contribute to a better education style. She was very nervous but she did it truly amazing. We have worked hard this week, we did brochures and paper flowers, we bought balloons in which we could read “VOTE FOR PAULA” or, “FLOWER POWER”. At the end, when Paula finished her speech, we put a funny powtoon.

In sum, I think that this week has been a good week. We have worked a lot, but we have also had funny. I hope to continue working like this.

See you next week flowers!!!

STOP-MOTIONING BASICS FOR A NEW EDUCATIONAL LAW, TASK 8

Task:

Roles:

Star:

Hi everyone! I am Vero, the star of the task this week.

This time was our moment to make an stop-motion about new laws in education and then  present it to the class as we were participants of eurovision, so I was the presenter of my group. 

I dindn't know I had to present until the moment . In addition, I was the first of all the groups and I didn't know exactly what I had to do so I felt a bit nervious, however I relaxed immediately due to the fact that it was the second time i was the star and i'm starting to be adapted to make public presentations.

After all the videos were presented, we pass to give the puntuation to the others and I was the spokenperson, something  that make me feel in compromise with the rest of groups because although the mark is a decision of all of us I dindt like to value my partners in public.

Leaving out this last moment I have enjoy the role of star in this session.

Translator:

Stop motion: a filming technique in which successive positions of objects or people are photographed to produce the appearance of movement.

Decalogue: a basic set of rules carrying binding authority.

Advertisement: A notice, such as a poster designed to attract public attention.

Law: a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a society behaves.

Eurovision: A network of European television production administered by the European Broadcasting Union. In this program a singer from each country represents his country with a song. After the performances each country has to punctuate the other ones depending on which one they liked the most. 


Facilitator:

Hi everyone! I’m Aintzane, and this week I’m the facilitator of my group FLOWERPOWER!!

This week has been too hard, because we have spent a lot of time taking photos in order to create a STOP-MOTION.

When we met on Monday we tried to do this task with drawing, but it was a failure, so on Tuesday we completely change the style of our work and we started taking photos ourselves.

When we finished taking all the photos, the stop-motion was almost finished, but we had a problem, all our work was erased. We started again, but the program didn’t work well. I tried to motivate my colleagues but we were so tired, we couldn’t understand the reason why it was not solved. 

Finally, we finished the work at 02:30 a.m , and on Wednesday we saw our videos in class. It was not the best, but we are so proud of our work. 

Analyst:

Hi classmates! My name is Rocio Muñoz and this week I am going to tell if we had some problems, etc so as you can see I am the analyst.

To star we had a lot of problems because of the dificulty of the activity, we also spent a lot of time  making the movie with our pictures and finally we finish too late.

But at the end we could finish the task so  I really love our presentation in the work
although we could not win our little Eurovision.

We must go on working in this way because we organize very well.

CURATOR-FARMER:

Hi everybody!!! I am Elena Torres Soto and  this week I am the curator farmer of my group Flower Pmy role is to collect all the links and webpae have taken for reference and used in the work.

The information we have used isa ll form the document “Decálogo ideas-fuerza del Documento de Bases para una nueva Ley de Educación”. After Reading this documetn we just use our imagination to reflecta ll th ideas in a stop-motion format.

Journalist:

Hello everybody, I am Naomi, the journalist of this week. As the journalist, I have to tell you what we have done in the task of this week. 

We had to film a stop motion video about 10 ideas in order to represent that an ideal education in the public school is possible. 

We met on Monday and we talked about how could we represent the stop motion. First we tried drawing on a blackboard but as we had just one day and a half for recording everything we thought that it would be better to film ourselves.

So, on Tuesday we met again and we stayed the whole afternoon and some ours at night because our editor did not work well (our video was deleted more than 4 times)

On Wednesday, Veronica, the star of this task, showed the class our video.

It has been a hard task to make, but also very original and interesting. 

I also commented a pair of blogs I considered they were really nice:

COMPLEXITY AND RELATIONSHIPS, TASK 7.2

TASK:

In this task we made a video with our colleagues from other groups.

We have to understand how schools are organized and how everything is in a relationship, because it is crucial to understand deeply that schools are complex. We explored what complexity means and how this affects the relationships at school. We also had to read before making the video a chapter about 5 types of relationships at schools giving examples of 5 fiction mini-cases. We recorded one of this situations.

With this task we have learned that schools are complex places and learning is also a complex process.

We have to say that within school we can find teacher-student connection, connections with peers, connections within the learning context, connexions beyond the classroom, connections within learning.

ROLES:

STAR:

Hello everyone!!  I am Naomi Méndez, the star of this week. I have been the star twice, but this week my role was quite different. I have been a kind of movie director. 
First of all we had to write some cases, and then in class, we chose one case in order to represent it. 
When I had chosen the case (Teacher-Student relationship) I went with some colleagues of mine to another classroom and we made a fast representation of the case I wrote. It was about showing the difference between a demotivated teacher and a brand new one who helps a lot her pupils. 
After recording the video, I edited it and uploaded in Youtube.


CURATOR - FARMER:

Hi! I'm Veronica Molina and the role of curator is mine this week!

As we had to continue with the second part of the task of the last week (complexity and relationship), the information we have used is all from the second chapter the teacher gave us  (Starkey, L. (2012). Teaching and learning in the digital age. London: Routledge.)

In the previous task we also had to search information on the internet to find news related with the content, but this time we didn’t have to do it due to the fact we had to create some scenes by ourselves, so this is the only source of information we used.

ANALYST:

Hi everyone!!  I’m Aintzane, the analyst of this week. My role is to evaluate the work of my group.

The task of this week has been ‘Relationships in a Complex Context’ . We had to do 5 different cases with the 5 types of relationships at school, in which, we have illustrated the teachers’ situation at school each day. 

Finally, on Wednesday, we had to record a short in order to illustrate the relationships that we have studied in this task. The movie directors were the different stars. For example in my group, my director was Stina Eliasson, the star of the group, Ladies and Gentleman, and we had to it about Connections with peers.

I love my group, and I hope that continue working as well as we have worked until now.

JOURNALIST:

Hi everyone! I´m Paula, the journalist of this week. My objective is to tell you what we have done to obtain the results of this task. 

First of all, on Monday Linda explained and gave us the instructions we had to follow in order to do the task. In class we read some documents and started to work hard. In the evening we met at the library to finish our work. It was funny because we had to create some histories and scenarios and for that we needed a lot of imagination. 

On Wednesday, the big day, Linda surprised us as always saying that we had to mix with other groups in order to create a theatre and made a representation. The challenge was to do it only in one hour, or less. Create and record the video was too fun (at least in my group)!! I think everyone had a great time that day ;) We have to upload it to youtube and we´ll watch it on Monday as if we were in a cinema, I hope everything goes well (and fun).

TRANSLATOR:

Hi flowers!!! I am Elena Torres Soto and I am the translator of this week. We have learn the meaning of this five words which I think that are the best represent what we have been doing during his task:

• Connection: ths term decribes the relationship between two or more people (in this case it could be techer-student or studen-student) which is characterized by confidence.

• Complexity: This term describes the behavior of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, meaning there is no reasonable higher instruction to define the various possible interactions.

• Influence: this term refers to the fact that if teachers do something it is very posible that it will have consequences in the students.

• Knowledge: this term represents what teachers transmit to their students and also what the students aquire thanks to teacher.

• System: this term makes refference to that school is composed by different parts, and they work thanks to the unión among them.

FACILITATOR:

Hello Flowers! I’m Paula Martínez Plaza and this week I’ve been the facilitator of my group.

The task of this week has been really original because we had to create 5 stories based on “Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age”. My role consisted of dividing the group in four couples to read the document and we rotated every time we finished reading a section and thus, we handled different opinions and ideas. Then, all of us started to create the stories in Spanish due to it was easier for us. Finally, I divided the group in two groups formed by four people, some of us translated the stories to English while the rest of the group reviewed that we had done until that moment. I did that because from my point of view, we understand ourselves better whether we work in that way.

I believe that we don’t have much problems when it comes to working in group, so for me it wasn’t complicated to organize the activity and to resolved doubts. Also, I provided them some food to encourage the dynamic of the group and to create a relaxed environment.