Translator post.

Hello everyone, I am Raquel the translator of ''the little ants'', as you know I have to choose five key words and to provide a definition of them, but again as you know this week we have work the advantages and the disadvantages of these six leadership styles, so I have though that all of them are key words, so I have done an exception and I have describes all of them.

1. Democratic: This is a leadership style in which the leader take into account their followers' opinion in the decision-making process, so the play a more important role in the decision than other followers of others leadership styles can do and in this way the results are always more creatives. That's the reason why this type of leadership is the more effective, it have higher productivity and usually it is the best one because it cause less problems than others.

2. Autocratic: This kind of leaders have all the control in the decision-making process and the result are less creative because they never take into account their followers' opinion, they only take into account their own opinion. They are really clear about the thing that should be done, how they should be done, and exactly when they should be done. Also they establish very well the difference between the leader and the followers. It is only useful in a decision-making process when there is few time to decide.

3. Laissez- faire: In this kind of leadership the leader give to their follower all the control to the decision making process. They do not provide direction to the followers, it give to their followers a higher degree of freedom, while at the same time they offering guide and support when they are requested. The leader provide all the material necessary to accomplish their goals but he or she don't participate in the decision-making process.

4. Transactional: This leaders focus on motivate their followers trough out a system of rewards and punishments. Providing rewards to recognize the effort or the good performance, and providing punishment to improve the performance. They identify their followers' needs and given them rewards to improve their efficiency. Transactional style prefer working in teams to focus all their concentration in the task.

5. Transformational: The transformational leadership style depends on high levels of communication because leaders motivate their followers by th communication. The leader is not limited by the perception of their followers. They focus on transform the need of their followers and redirect their thinking. The leader work in the most important issue and delegate smaller tasks to their team.

6. Paternalistic: The paternalistic leaderships works as a father for their followers, taking care about them as a father would do with their children. And he or she receive as a result the trust and the loyalty of them. The relationship between leader and workers is totally solid. They help each other as a family when they have any problem.

To sum, I have to say that it have been the best activity in my opinion because it is really useful in our future as teacher to know how much types of leaderships there are and which we want to be, I think that the best one is the democratic leadership.

Enjoy it!

Facilitator's Post

Hi readers! I'm Esmeralda, the facilitator of this week. I have coordinated and evaluated the work of my group and this week has been special. We have studied the different types of leadership that a group could have and I have been trying some of them.

 Trying to do it in a good mood, I attempted to order some of my mates what they have to do and when they have to do it, I pressure them a bit and their response was a sense of nervousness, they were frustrated and worried of doing the task as fast as possible to avoid my scolding. This is typical of the authoritarian leadership and I proved that it was not a good way of working because it was difficult to maintain a healthy environment of work.

Regarding to that experiment, I decided that the most adequate way of working was the democratic type of leadership. So, I organized the group taking into account each member of the group. In the 6th of May, I divided the work among the members of the group: Mari, Alba and Rosana worked with the Wikipedia's document that Linda had previously uploaded, while Maria and Raquel, and Blanca and me worked with the other two documents in pairs.

During this weekend we continued working on that documents and in the 12th of May we created a Prezi for our stars in order to present the activity. So, in the 13th of May the presented the activity and they do it quite well!

As a facilitator I have to say that my role was easy because, after a long time working together we have learned to work in a cooperative way.

Moreover, I have to be in charge of the Web 2.0, so here you can see some of our tweets of this week: 

See you!

Stars Post

Hello once again, we are Raquel and Blanca, the stars of our group. We must say that today, at the beginning of the class, Linda (our teacher) told to the stars of every group to leave the class. Then, she said that the task of the day was to create a broad school. She also told us that the stars had to be directive, less care or democratic. In these different types of personalities of being in charge of a school, we had to be directive.

When we arrived to the classroom, we told to the rest of our group what we had to do. We had to do a broad school and then explain to the whole class how it will be. We gave a lot of orders to our classmates and they became a bit angry because of that. Finally, they told us that they preferred to be more democratic and take into account the opinion of every person of the group and not only the one of the stars.

Linda also told us that in the presentation of the broad school, the stars had to choose two people of our group to present the task. Then, we decided that Esmeralda and Rosana do that.

Our broad school was the following one:

It is a bilingual school whose name is “Ágora”. It is composed by: one headmaster, one director of studies, one representative of town hall, one pedagogist and one psychologist. In the school, it will be 340 students of Primary Education (from 6 to 12 years), 20 teachers of the different subjects and 2 support teachers. The time table will be from 9 am. to 14 pm. with a break will be of half an hour. It will have a dining hall where the people of the school foster healthy habits. In the school will be activities in the afternoon such as technology, dance, football, jockey, tennis and swimming and travels, for example to museums or to a summer bilingual camp in holidays. The competences are: approval and evaluation of the educational project, participation on the selection of the headmaster, decide about the students’ admission, value of the center running and decide about the scholar system and evaluation of the student’s performance.

To sum up, we think that this activity has helped us to understand how are the different kinds of personalities of the people that are in charge of schools. When all the class talk about the reactions of the members of the groups, we realized that the best type of personality is the democratic one, because every person of the group can give his/her opinion.

See you soon!!