CURATOR LAST WEEK !!

Hii!! I am Marina De Vicente and I am the curator of this week. In this moment I am very happy but at the same time I am worried, because this week is the last, so in few days we will be doing the exam.

For this task we have used:

Estructuras para el trabajo y la cordinación de los profesores en los cento. M· Teresa González González
https://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2015_N_N/Bilingual%20Group/Schools%20that%20learn/Estructura%20de%20centros_M%C2%AA%20Teresa%20Gonz%C3%A1lez.pdf

Los centros educativos como organizaciones que aprenden: una mirada crítica. Antonio Bolívarhttps://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2015_N_N/Bilingual%20Group/Schools%20that%20learn/organizaciones%20que%20aprenden.pdf

The Complexity of Schools Starkey, L. (2012). Teaching and learning in the digital
age. London: Routledge

Connections & Relationships
Starkey, L. (2012). Teaching and learning in the digital age.
London: Routledge.


 Here you can see the tools and the refences that we used for doing the last task here:

https://bubbl.us/mindmap?h=31eafe/63e580/32QwUHp88ZY1s

For me this subject have been very interesting and thanks of it I improve my creativity.
Apart from the content of he subject I learn something that I am goint to use in the future, as future teachers, like work in group, respect the different opinion.. since a teacher don't work alone, the teachers work together and  this is a important point that we are going tot ake into account in our future.

I have really liked working with my group CHALKIES, we have always done the task the better that we have been able, so congratulations. COME ON, WE CAN, WE ARE GOINg TO PASS THE EXAM.
 I wish you luck

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LAST TASK: ANALYST

Hello bloggers, I am Alicia de Prado.

I can’t believe this has been our last task.

I can’t either believe how much we have improved since the first once. It is a coincidence that I have been the analyst of the first task, and also being it in this last one.

That first one, “TPACK”, I reflected about how we were like a basketball time. The mistakes we did, the insecurities, the fear. We have been evolving like this basketball team, where the cooperation and the sense of team work were the only ways to succed.

This task has been the task in which we were having our expectations on how a great task should be. We were all very efficient, we finally got to know how we could be friends of who had been our worst enemy: the time. We have learnt to argue less, and we have learnt to make decisions which everyone of us like. Of course, there is always going to be that kind of “Shut up!” or “Fulanita, stop using the pone” or “How I wish we had more individual work”. Despite of that, we have loved to work together, in our best and worst moments.

We have seen that with constancy and effort, every goal is reached. We have learnt a lot of things, things I hope we will be able to express in the final exam.

We have also strengthen our friendship ties, we know that with all the work we have done together, we are going to be very good friends. It’s what one of us always says “We are all so different, but at the same time we know how to connect to each other and do a good job”. We have been through rough moments, but for sure we have lived so many good ones.

As I always like to say, this is only the start, the long road of learning never ends. We can  achieve small goals, but we have to look forward and look for new ones, that will make us feel  completed and happy.  As Jack Kerouac said in his novel “On the Road”: “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road”. 

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TRANSLATOR WEEK 10

Hi bloggers! it's Marina García, this time as a translator of the task. This week we've been working on speeches and leadership styles! Have a look at the new terms that we've learnt.
At the end you'll also find some tips to perform a great speech.

Here you have the five main styles you can find, related to our context, it could be as a headmaster of a primary school.

1. Laissez- faire: A laissez-faire leader lacks direct supervision of employees and fails to provide regular feedback to those under his supervision. Highly experienced and trained employees requiring little supervision fall under the laissez-faire leadership style. However, not all employees possess those characteristics. This leadership style hinders the production of employees needing supervision. The laissez-faire style produces no leadership or supervision efforts from managers, which can lead to poor production, lack of control and increasing costs.

2. Autocratic: The autocratic leadership style allows managers to make decisions alone without the input of others. Managers posses total authority and impose it on employees. No one challenges the decisions of autocratic leaders. This leadership style benefits employees who require close supervision.

3. Participative: Often called the democratic leadership style, participative leadership values the input of team members and peers, but the responsibility of making the final decision rests with the participative leader. In Participative leadership everyone contributions to the decision-making process. It causes them to feel as if their opinions matter. When a company needs to make changes within the organization, the participative leadership style helps employees accept changes easily because they play a role in the process. This style meets challenges when companies need to make a decision in a short period.  It is based on cooperaation among every member.
4. Transactional: Managers using the transactional leadership style receive certain tasks to perform and provide rewards or punishments to team members based on performance results. Managers and team members set predetermined goals together, and employees agree to follow the direction and leadership of the manager to accomplish those goals. The manager possesses power to review results and train or correct employees when team members fail to meet goals. Employees receive rewards, such as bonuses, when they accomplish goals. They conquest throught external motivation.

5. Transformational: The transformational leadership style depends on high levels of communication from management to meet goals. Leaders motivate employees and enhance productivity and efficiency through communication and high visibility. This style of leadership requires the involvement of management to meet goals. Leaders focus on the big picture within an organization and delegate smaller tasks to the team to accomplish goals. It suffers a trasformation from the inside to the outside part.



How to perform a great speech:-Feel close to your audience.
- Be honest.
-Be smart with your speech's structure (don't be boring)
-Encourage people with interesting proposal.
-Be concise and authentic
  

I HOPE IT COULD BE USEFUL FOR YOU. THANKS 4 READING!

Academic fact fight. BY: Frtis Ahlefeldt-Laurvig License: BY NC
Resource: Flirck.net

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ANALYST WEEK 10

Hi bloggers, I'm Elena González and this week I've been the Chalkies' analyst.

In this tenth week we have come bak to reallity since we have worked as we used to do. Linda explained the task and each group had to do an exposition in front of the class.

This week we (specially our star) had to creat a kind of candidature for being the director of a school. For doing something like that we had to read a document where 4 types of leadership were described. I guess we had to do that because it can be useful for our future to know which kind of leadership can be more beneficial for one moment and also because we can use this styles when we are the facilitators of the group.

On the one hand, the worst part of this activity was agreeing which kind of leadership we wanted, but finally we concluded that Alicia was going to pe a participative leader. On the other hand, the best part of the task was creating the Fakebook acount and the pamphlets and also the day of the "elections". It was really funny to see how the other groups defended their candidate and tried to buy our votes with candies.

We have learned that with this style the workplace has a family atmosphere and that it helps all the members of the group to contribute in the outcomes with the support from the upper management.

In the few weeks that remain, we have to conserve the organization, since this week we have done everyting on time; and the spirit that we have as a team.

I think that we have improved a lot since we started this subject and I'm very proud of this group.

See you next week bloggers!

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CURATOR (WEEK 10)

Hi guys! I am Isabel Ramírez de Arellano Sevilla and I am the curator of this week. In this link you will be able to see our mind map of tools and references not only from this task but also from the others:

https://bubbl.us/?h=31eafe/63e580/32QwUHp88ZY1s&r=1144261193


Here below, you are going to find the references we have used to do this leadership task:

Gyasi, Kwame. 2015. Participative leadership practice in junior high schools and actions to improve the practice: a case study of Sekyere south district, Ghana
Master's Thesis in Education. University of Jyväskylä. Department of Education 

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

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Journalist week 10

Hi bloggers! I am Alicia Gomis, the Chalkies’ journalist and I’m going to tell you all about this week in SOYER.

We started on Monday watching the video of the TVshows in which all of us  participated trying to perform different fiction cases about the connections in school. We did The Leona’s Diary and this time Marina de Vicente and me were actresses while the others Chalkies were camera girls, directors or set designers.

The video was really amazing, well done class!

After watching the video Linda explained to us the next task. It was about the different types of leaderships and our work was to choose one of these types and make a speech to convince our classmates to be the best headmistress for a school. It wasn’t necessary to meet at home because on Monday all the Chalkies worked hard in order to finish the work as fast as possible.

Here we were looking for information with our computers

                          

On wednesday we lived a kind of political elections. All the groups presented their candidates and they did their best in order to be selected.

You can see here some of the candidates and their teams giving their  characteristics as leader and trying to convince to us.

                               

                                      

        

 Chalkies would have given their vote to Pablo, there is no doubt about that!                                               

                                     

                               

                          They did a good job… but our star did it excellent!!

                 

                                 VOTE FOR ALICIA DE PRADO!!

Alicia was The Chalkies’ candidate and I’m sure that with her wise words she got a lot of followers.

All the groups did an excellent campaign in order to achieve their goals

            

In this task we have also visited other blogs in order to compare information about the different types of leaderships, here you have one of them: 

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/5-different-types-leadership-styles-17584.html

And that's all, as you know the course is ending and this is almost the last task of the year! We have had an amazing experiencia and we have enjoyed a lot eventhough we have also worked very hard, It’s like a mix of feelings.

Are you also enjoying our work?

 See you next week! J

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STAR WEEK 10

Hello guys, it's Alicia de Prado!! How is it going? The end is coming!!
Well, I have been honored this week with the important mission of being the face of The Chalkies as if it was a political campaign. I had to be a headmistress and I had to give a speech about how was my school ruled and which my methods were.

When I first realized I was going to be the star (once again), i felt nervous (once again). However, when I knew what the topic was about, I started being excited because it was a task that appeared interesting for me.

Work began! We got organized to make my campaign and prepared the speech I was going to defend. We decided to follow a "participative leadership" because we all agree in that point of view at the time of working in a school. I started to learn by heart my speech, but then I realized that it wasn't something I had to do like that. I mean, I had to have the structure clear, and knew about I was going to say, but I decided to do it more like a politician would do it: with passion!.

Wednesday came, and I started to get reeeeally nervous. Our mates did beautiful campaigns, and ours were good too but a bit more less attractive. My mates started doing their speeches, and they were all awesome. My turn came, and I just told to myself: "Come on Alicia, It's just like a game, have fun and do the best you can". And so I did! I am quite happy of how it was, I spoke fluently and I think that I made myself clear. My Chalkies were proud of me, and they gave me a huge applause and congratulated me.

You can see here the fakebook we made, in case you want to vote for me in the next elections ;) !!
http://www.classtools.net/FB/1737-ZBPMMm

Another task done!! It's the final countdown Chalkies, we can! xx

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