1.GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
In this context of complex institutions, there are different types of leadership.
Children need to find the variety of leader, to answer the following questions:
How must be the good leader?, Who would be a good leader and Who is the best leader for our institution? There is a leadership style preferable for any institution?
This is a document where you can find information about the four basic leadership styles, but also you can find more on the Internet.
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
Then they are going to personalize a candidate to the direction of the centre and make a campaign for presenting itself.
In this campaign, it has to show its style and express what styles it doesn’t have, moreover the characteristic of the school.
Finally, all the class decides what is the best and why.
2.PRODUCTS.
– Speech Viki
Hello everyone!! I am Vicky, one of the candidates for the future headmaster of this educational institution. First of all, I would like to ask you some questions…
Any of you has ever felt that your decisions were not being taken into account? Have your parents ever felt that your teacher was such as enemy? Have you ever felt that you don’t belong to your class and you don’t receive love? Well, if you have experienced some of these situations, don’t worry, because we will give you the solution.
There is still enough time to make the changes. By the way, I don’t want you to feel I’m superior because I’m not. I’m just one of the pieces of this machine and I need the rest. You are the rest. I understand how you feel sometimes but, If I don’t, at least, I try. I don’t want to promise you that all your desires are going to be reached, but at least, I will try it.
The main objective of this campaign is to create a school where decisions are free and accepted and where everyone has the freedom to participate in every activity that is being done. Among our moral values, we can find equality, inclusion, evolution, diversity, freedom, and love.
As it is not important what we say, it is important what we do, we want to share with you the projects that we will develop:
Firstly, it is being planned a diversity week during the school year, in which there will be several activities per day. Each day will be dedicated to a topic: we will focus on the different cultures that could be found between scholars, we will explain some functional diversities another day, the gender gap will be also discussed and so on… Our purpose is to encourage the inclusion and to make people feel that we are equal regarding rights, but different regarding characteristics and those make us special. For the same reasons, we want to develop a classroom for blind children by adopting the classroom and the materials to meet their needs. All of us have right to be educated and this school offers a chance to everyone, regardless of their peculiarities.
On the other hand, a solidarity market will be also held. Children can provide perishable food. It’s completely volunteer but with this idea, we try to transmit not only to students but also to parents and other people that take part in this, the values that our school supports. so we think that this is a great way to teach more than academic topics. We want to foster generosity and fellowship.
Because this is not our responsibility, another project is to make a suggestions’ corner. We know that there are diverse opinions or ideas about everything and we don’t want to impose anything as compulsory without taking into account others opinions. But we are not only talking about students or teachers, we include families and other staff of the school. We don’t want our people to feel timidness. We don’t want them to feel that we don’t care their thoughts, they are important for us to work. Please, who among you have you ever seen that your teacher was under the headmaster decisions like not being himself? This is the moment to start the change.
Related to shyness, students sometimes feel excluded in the group, or they have little fights in class. So, we propose that we could dedicate an hour per week to make ‘’book therapy’’. This is a relaxing and spiritual activity that motivate them to socialize, to imagine and to read. But beyond this, to share their feelings and open to other people. Students have to close their eyes and listen to a story where he or she is the main character and they try to imagine what happened there. Finally, they are going to share their feelings in the story with the rest of the class and through that, the rest of the people is going to know how he or she really feels. In that way, students would help them and they could solve any problem in their relationships.
Another issue that we think is very important, is the teacher’s academical formation. We would offer to all our staff plenty of courses that they would be able to do, such as one about emotional intelligence. We believe that our students deserve to be understood, and it is an essential requirement for them to learn. They need that the teachers create a great atmosphere, fulfilled with love and sympathy.
Support is important for students too, so we are working on a plan: from now on, smaller students will be provided with a tutor all along the school year. Their results will be checked by that person and they will receive feedback, so as not to let them fall apart. In addition, it will be voluntary for the oldest one.
Furthermore, teachers are not the only one who need to support students if they want them to succeed and be safe. Parents are too. So that is why we are proposing a day per month when parents will be invited to come inside our installations and to spend some time with their offsprings. They would be given the opportunity to participate together in several activities. Students need to feel that their parents care about what they do.
Finally, we want to announce you that as part of our evolution and in order to adapt to the new times, we want to be involved in the using of ICT. For that reason, our campaign we will be published on our blog and to show how we are implied in this initiative, we will also improve the classrooms for computer science with the aim of improving the students’ technological skills and of facilitating their rapprochement with the ICT.
In conclusion, this is the school that you deserve because of me, that I have been a student too, would have dreamt to be in a school like this where we are concerned about the best formation for everybody and we try to face all the changes presented. Because you, my students, can achieve everything that you propose with our help. Honestly, because I don’t like order and I dislike to be ordered too, What’s better than a system where everybody works in groups? Where is anyone better than another? Where are we worried about our values? Please, don’t forget what Howard G. Hendrick said ‘‘the education that leaves its mark is not the one from head to head, but from the heart to heart’’.
That has been all, thank you, everyone, for your attention.
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3.ROLES.
- Journalist: Mª del Mar Martínez Hernández.
- Star: Mª Victoria Aupí Román.
- Curator-Farmer: Ana Gil García.
- Analyst: Andrea Álvarez de Toledo.
- Facilitator: Beatriz Meroño Ortega.
- Translator: Rocío de la Cruz López Rodríguez.
- Supporter: Elena Fernández Mira.
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4. A SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE LEARNT WITH THIS TASK.
We had to choose a type of leadership among the four ones that we have to read about: the authoritarian, the participative, the transformational and the transactional. I think that one of the best parts of the activity was when we had to decide which type we were going to represent, as we all agree really quick that we wanted to do the Transactional one, and we started to think of ideas that could represent our leadership styles better. There, each of us showed our most creative part.
I coincide with the rest of the members that the worst of this activity was the fact that two of our members couldn’t attend the faculty this week, so the rest of us had more work than ever. However, they did everything they could at home, so it wasn’t so bad to have missed them for a week.
Actually, the best moment of the week was when we did a kind of “brainstorming”, trying to come up with the most original ideas for Viki’s presentation, as we wanted to highlight among the rest of groups. Honestly, I think we did it. Our presentation was entertaining for everyone, so I think we had our reward for our hard job.
Thanks to this task, we haven’t only learned the different types of leadership (as obvious) but we have learned as well how to write a speech that catches the attention of the audience, how to move in the scene so everyone would be delighted with your presentation… and how to gain easy votes (thanks to our idea of giving Heart Balloons and lollipops to everyone ;). I think that this content can be useful for us, not only if we want to present ourselves to a campaign for being the headmaster of our future school, but also to convince anyone of our ideas, to know how to expose them correctly and to make the others agree with you, to reach a consensus, which I think it’s really important if you are working with a team (in our case, the AMPA, the teaching team, the school counselor…).
If we really want to succeed in our professional career, we will have to act like a leader with the children, for example, but also with parents, other teachers… to assure that our ideas are going to be listened and thought. We have to think about the pros and cons of each type of leadership: for example, you may see an authoritarian leader as a really strict person, not appropriate for a Primary School, but also, you have to think that it depends on the type of school and the type of children that this authoritarian leader is going to find.
To sum up, we don’t think either that the Transactional leadership, based on peace and love, is the best one. Maybe it’s is in some schools, but in others, it doesn’t. It happens the same with the other types of leadership, as we think that each person can have different styles and use each one of them if it’s needed. For sure, we are going to pass through a lot of children in our life, and we will have to learn how to treat them in every occasion: sometimes with love, and sometimes with hardness, as we have definitely learned that every leadership style has its lights and its shades.
5.THE PRINCIPAL TERMS THAT WE HAVE WORKED ON IT.
-Leader: a leader is a person who leads a group, company, organization…He guides others toward reaching organizational or personal goals. He is responsible for decision making, interpersonal relationships and planning. The leader has the power to influence other subjects. Their behaviour or their words succeed in encouraging the members of a group to work together for a common goal.
–Authoritarian leaders: He makes the decisions without giving explanations about it. It is based on rewards, punishments and the search for obedience. Direct and control all activities without any significant involvement of subordinates.
–Participative leaders: is one in which the leader is integrated as one more in the work team. The productivity and human relationships were closely linked and opened to informal structures and social systems. It is quite useful for those processes that are not focused only on the results.
–Transactional leaders: The worker offers his services and obtains salary and other benefits, and on the other hand, the leader recognizes what he wants to achieve and provides the workers with the necessary resources to make them achieve it. This type of leadership requires the integration of organizational goals and expectations with the needs of the people doing the work.
–Transformational leaders: It focuses on human capital, on the members of your organization to achieve the change you are looking for. He knows that the transformation of the company or organization is only possible through them, that is why he values them, invites them to participate and motivates them. It is a common process of leader and workers to advance to a higher level of morale and motivation.
6.SELF-EVALUATION.
Mª del Mar Martínez Hernández. 8
Mª Victoria Aupí Román. 9
Ana Gil García. 7
Andrea Álvarez de Toledo Martínez. 8
Beatriz Meroño Ortega. 7.5
Rocío de la Cruz López Rodríguez. 7
Elena Fernández Mira. 8
Talking about the mark of the entire group, We would like to highlight the incredible speech that our star Victoria carry out during her presentation. We know that everything can be improved but from our point of view, it was brilliant. Also, we brought balloons, lollipops and distributed leaflets to each group as you can see in the images.
So we think that our group mark should be a 9.5
7. HOW THIS ACTIVITY CAN HELP US TO DEVELOP THE COMPETENCIES OF THE COURSE.
The main competence that we had found was: to know the processes of interaction and communication in the classroom.
Since in this task we have talked about the types of headmaster and we analyzed all the characteristics of each one, we can see that everyone has a thought about the way of educating that there must be in their school and this also leads to the way of relating of the students of the center, and the level of permission that is going to have inside the classroom which leads to a level of communication also greater or lesser.