Facilitator Post

Hello readers! I’m Alba and I’m the Facilitator of this week. My role has been coordinating the work of my group. This week has been a bit strange because we had just the time of the class for doing the task; designing the schools of our dreams but with a characteristic. We had to work under the supervision of the two stars of the group, Blanca and Raquel. At the beginning of the class, Linda had talked with them and said them that they had to be autocratic leaders, and all the decisions of the group had to be made by them. The others members of the group did not understand everything at first and they were a bit angry but after they accepted that it was part of the task. Me as facilitator tried to coordinate the work but it was impossible, because Blanca and Raquel were very hard and did not lend me to run the situation., due to their role of dictatorial leaders.

Despite this, I think that the group worked very well and the girls accepted the situation in the best way. From my point of view is a very good activity to understand the different types of leaders that a group of work can have. And after we discussed our impressions about the activity we realized that always is better a boss who is able to work in group and to listen the others opinion, although he or she manages the way of working, he has to know that other scan have other good ideas too.

Now we are working in the task about the disadvantages and advantages of each type of leadership and we hope that we can do a good exposition.

See you.

            

Curator-Farmer Post

Hi everyone! I'm Esmeralda and I have had the role of curator-farmer this week. The task of this week was to develop our own school and this activity last only one hour! We didn't need any papers for doing it, so I don't have references to put here.

I have summarized the main characteristics of the school that we have created on this pearltrees:

Here you have the link of the pearl trees so you can see it more detailed:

http://pearltrees.com/p/cV_9r

Apart from my role as curator-farmer, the day of the activity I had to present our bilingual school to the class with my partner Rosana. We were a bit lost because we hadn't had so much time to prepare the activity in a more detailed way, but we took it as a challenge and we did it. This week we have had a great time!

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!!