Task 8 (leadership) - Journalist

Do you need some photos???

Hello Beeeeeees!! I'm Miriam and this week I'm the Journalist of my group BusyBees!

We are finally in the last week of our course because the summer is coming! :). As you know, I like this role because I love taking photos and summarizing the process that we have followed.

According to our task that we had to do this week, it is related with the leadership and we had to develop four types of leaderships and we created a Fakebook page.

-Authoritarian leader

-Participative leader

-Transactional leader

-Transformational leader

On Monday, when Linda explained to us the task, we decided to divide the work. We are 8 so we established to do groups of 2 in order to realise the Fakebook and search information about our leader.

Here you have the division of the work:

-Authoritarian: Yoli and Ana

-Participative: Gracia and Miriam

-Transactional: Maria José and María

-Transformational: Ainhoa and Berna

On Tuesday, when we already had all the information searched, we put everything in common with our partner and we started to do the Fakebook.  It has been difficult to meet because we will start with exams next week and we are so nervous about it.

Here you have our Fakebook pages:

-Authoritarian:

www.classtools.net/FB/1183-Av5b3z

- Participative: 
www.classtools.net/FB/1979-HGgp9K

-Transactional:

http://www.classtools.net/FB/1935-GxKvuJ

-Transformational:

www.classtools.net/FB/1624-WRaEns

On Thursday, we decided to do in the School Organization's hour the photographies of the leaders and we edited it with Photoshop in order to put them similar. We did them with a position of the body determined to better represent our leader.

Here you have a collage with our photos:

On Monday, when the class began, Linda explained the ''play'' that we have to do. She divided the leaderships among the different groups in class and we had to do a common profile with Meerkats about the Participative leader. We had to play ''bad policeman and the good policeman'' and we had to create the feeling of ''an elections'' (WE ARE BETTER THAN THE OTHERS''). One group is the moderator and they did four questions to do a debate.

We have had a very good time doing this activity and we learned a lot about the different types of leaders.

In order to accomplish the second part of my role, I have to search and comment two blogs, one from inside our class and other from outside our class:

Inside our class, I decided to comment Meerkat’s blog because we have worked with them so good and they are very organized. Their blog presents all so clear and everything is well-structured. So well done! It has been a pleasure to work with you!

http://meerkatsoyer1415.blogspot.com.es/

From outside our class, I decided to comment a blog that I have found about the leadership, concretely I like a post about the differences of transformational leadership and transactional leadership and it is very well structured and organized.

http://blog.aiesec.org/whats-difference-transformational-leadership-vs-transactional-leadership/

Task 8 (Leadership). Our candidates!

Hi Bees!

Here we are the star 2 and responsible of this week, Ana and Yolanda!!!

Our mission for today is presents you our candidates for this selection process.

The candidates are the following:

Sonsoles Marín: she is a good example of a participative candidate, because she listens to the population and takes it into account.

This is her perfile in Fakebook: http://www.classtools.net/FB/1979-HGgp9K

Berni Mandela: he is an example of a transformational candidate, he works with other people, he doesn´t order to others.

This is his perfile en Fakebook: http://www.classtools.net/FB/1624-WRaEns

Mrs. Prieto: she is an example of anauthoritative leader. She is very efficient, and she's able to control all the situations, achieving results in few time.

This is her profile in Fakebook: http://www.classtools.net/FB/1183-Av5b3z

Nikki Boss: she is an example of a transactional leader. She gives her workers the opportunity to take decisions in the work that they have to do, she motivates and values the work done by her workers with rewards.

This is her profile in Fakebook: http://www.classtools.net/FB/1935-GxKvuJ

Task 8. Leadership (Translator).

DO YOU NEED THE MEANINGS OF THE WORDS?

I'M HERE FOR HELPING YOU ;)

Hi bloggers,

María Jose is here again working as translator. This is the last time that I am going to work with this role and for me it has been a good experience working not only in this role but in general. I hope through my posts you realized the work that I have to do each week with motivation and trying to improve for doing it as better as possible. It has been a pleasure sharing with you this journey in the subject School Organization and Educational Resources and I hope of being able to  applicate all the knowledge that I have learnt for being better as a future teacher.

After this briefly farewell discourse, I am going to do my role that is to give you the most important words that we have learnt this week with the last task that is about LEADERSHIP:

Leadership is the ability to communicate with a group of people having an influence in their emotions trying that the team or group works with motivation in order to accomplish the goals or objectives.

Within of the leaderships we can distinguish different types:

Authoritative leadership. 

This kind of leadership is directed by a leader who controls all the things that occurs ordering and requiring to his/her subordinates who can‘t  express their ideas about the work. This leadership is very repressing .

Participative leadership. 

One of the most important things in this kind of leadership is the participation of all group. The leader promote dialogue with the goal of taking decisions together and reaching a conclusion about any work.

Transformational leadership. 

The leader and the subordinates increase the level of morality and motivation. This kind of leadership is not based in reward and punishment, on the contrary, the leader says to their subordinated what they have to do because the work that they do is for improving as a group.

This kind of leadership is related to the emotional intelligence of the leader and their followers.

Transactional leadership. 

This kind of leadership is based in reward and punishment. The leader says to their subordinates what they have to do and they have liberty in order to think some ideas to the work taking the appropriated decisions.The leader supervises the work that they have done. If they have done a good work they will be rewarded (they obtain a reward) but if they have not done a good work , the leader will punish them.

REFERENCES IN APA STYLE:

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.

Ogawa, R. (2005) Leadership as social construct: The expression of human agency within organizational constraint. In F. English (Ed.), The SAGE handbook of educational leadership (pp. 89–108). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Bass, B. M., & Riggio, R. E. (2006). Transformational leadership. Psychology Press.