Have you got some doubt? Don't worry! I am here for solving them!

Hi bloggers, I am Silvia! This is our last week and we have to say goodbye since the role of the TRANSLATOR.

This week we have worked with the different types of LEADERSHIP, more specifically with the AUTHORITARIAN, the PARTICIPATIVE, the TRANSACTIONAL and the TRANSFORMATIONAL. Are you a bit confused? Don’t worry! We felt the same when we started the activity, so here you can find the principal definitions that are going to help you for understanding the different roles of this activity.

LEADERSHIP:

The leadership is based in the guide that someone gives to some people for doing something. There are different perceptions of leaders, since a political to a religious. The leader stablishes the steps to follow and he or she must be secure that these steps are achieved. In addition a leader must have a good vision for developing good ideas and to know how he or she can motivate to the rest of people that are following him or her.

What is Leadership?. (n.d.). In Mind Tools. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_41.htm

AUTHORITARIAN:

One of the four types of leaders who is characterized for having a big control over all the aspects of the work, including the workers, who usually have not got the opportunity for giving their opinions or ideas because, as we have said the boss is who control everything and the rest of the people have a limit liberty.

Authoritarian. (n.d.). In Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://www.oxforddictionaries.com/es/definicion/ingles/authoritarian

Authoritarian. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved May 8, 2015, from Dictionary.com website:http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/authoritarian 

PARTICIPATIVE:

It is other of the types of leadership that, as its own name indicates, is based in the participation of all the members of the work. I mean, the participative leader allows that the people give their own ideas, above all in decisions that affect themselves. In addition, this type of leadership also allows a higher work in group.

Participative. (n.d.). In Macmillan Dictionary. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/participative

Participative. (n.d.). In Merriam-Webster. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/participative

TRANSACTIONAL:

This third type is based in the motivation of their workers using rewards and punishments. This leader is very organized and uses more the rewards than the punishments, although these last can be present too. He or she gives all the responsibility to the worker when gives an order, and the worker is the responsible in all the moment about this tasks.

Transactional Leadership. (n.d.). In Changing Minds. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/styles/transactional_leadership.htm

TRANSFORMATIONAL:

The last type is characterized by the passion and the energy. He or she worries about the workers and thinks that with the appropriate motivation they can do great things. This type of leader is confident and charismatic, a thing that if they do not know control can give them problems in the suture for developing the activities or tasks that they want.

Transformational Leadership. (n.d.). In Changing Minds. Retrieved May 18, 2015, fromhttp://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/styles/transactional_leadership.htm

It's the time of the curator!!

Hi followers!! I am María García and this week I have been the CURATOR!! As you have already know, my role consist on collect all the references, transform them in APA style and put them in a mindmap.

 

If you don't know, these are going to be our last posts because with the activity of leadership we have finished the activities of this subject!

 

In this activity we divided the 4 kind of leaderships and I have been the participative one. However, on Monday, we didn't develop our leaderships but we have had in charge of do the questions that the stars of the groups must answer according to their kind of leader. Our star Rebeca have been the moderator of the discussion of the stars and the rest of the Powerteachers have been the public of the ''competition''.

 

It was good doing the questions of our classmates because we have been attentive as we can't agree with only one type of leader: we had to be impartial.

 

Without further ado, here you can see our references of this activity and the mindmap that I have done with all of them:

 

WEB PAGES

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.

Méndez Molla, A. (n.d.). Liderazgo democrático . In Euroresidentes. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://liderazgo.euroresidentes.com/search?q=liderazgo+participativo

Méndez Molla, A. (n.d.). Liderazgo autoritario. In Euroresidentes. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://liderazgo.euroresidentes.com/search?q=liderazgo+autoritario

Méndez Molla, A. (n.d.). Liderazgo transaccional . In Euroresidentes. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://liderazgo.euroresidentes.com/search?q=LIDERAZGO+TRANSACCIONAL

Méndez Molla, A. (n.d.). Liderazgo transformacional. In Euroresidentes. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://liderazgo.euroresidentes.com/search?q=LIDERAZGO+TRANSFORMACIONAL

PHOTOS

Scherer, C. (2010, April 24). All we need. In Flickr. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/30108209@N02/11399475875/in/photolist-inki2v-j6XgeC-oBbPpB-f2GFnu-4k6qeU-5bdLcg-Ho5Zs-4gXszo-878FyN-4mmnWv-6rwidt-4svFce-9iNpRJ-4nGPS9-5nuJGH-7DtGPJ-8vZHBE-8wK1UC-cf4xK1-

Pao anda a acostarte!. (2003, January 1). In Flickr. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/payayita/1089198073/in/photolist-dcAzCJ-dcABjG-73Dvux-6XtQUv-qcz6Nt-r3TiRx-qKV3jn-bbqcp-4dWURX-pi7tua-pxA2w5-oFw5rc-4jvqfu-5YAT8R-5YF7pf-pLpFmR-a5F8oB-jM3Vg-c4Y6mm-4nwC2m

¿Hay un delito mayor que perder el tiempo?. (2009, May 10). In Flickr. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/razieldsm/3517767065/in/photolist-6mRtAi-7J97HN-5L9xaV-p2H1o3-avHoEJ-r731o-72SWSb-4a1HDm-4HcCLC-7Xtbyt-8zKyEH-9jukwQ-au4b2k-cms7sj-bnSU2f-bnTmhv-4UTFUV-7z7HV9-4JicfQ-o4YVc

Willis Manser, D. (2005, March 11). Team. In Flickr. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/dawnmanser/3532598208/in/photolist

 

FAKEBOOKS

Cascales Ribera, R. (n.d.). Authoritarian leader . In Fakebook. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://www.classtools.net/FB/1000-bbRk3e

Crevillén Fernández, M. (n.d.). Transformational leader . In Fakebook. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://www.classtools.net/FB/1162-jHhVAb

 

García Martínez, S. (n.d.). Transactional leader . In Fakebook. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://www.classtools.net/FB/1304-xN8ffg

 

García Zamora, M. (n.d.). Participative leader . In Fakebook. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://www.classtools.net/FB/1098-H4hBQ2

VIDEO

Participative Leadership. (2014, July 2). In Youtube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MszLwLycpBo&feature=youtu.be

 

DEFINITIONS

Transformational Leadership. (n.d.). In Changing Minds. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/styles/transactional_leadership.htm

Transactional Leadership. (n.d.). In Changing Minds. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/styles/transactional_leadership.htm

Participative. (n.d.). In Macmillan Dictionary. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/participative

Participative. (n.d.). In Merriam-Webster. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/participative

Authoritarian. (n.d.). In Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/es/definicion/ingles/authoritarian

Authoritarian. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved May 8, 2015, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/authoritarian

What is Leadership?. (n.d.). In Mind Tools. Retrieved May 18, 2015, from http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_41.htm

 

 

I hope you enjoy visiting our blog and that you like all the work that we have developed in this course. Thank you for visiting us!!

 

 

The last STAR is shining here!

Hello, my name is Rebeca Cascales Ribera and this week my role has been the STAR! The star is the role in charge of representing the weekly's job to the other's classmates. 

This week the role has been very interesting and a bit different, we had to prepare a Fakebook profile with each leadership style and show the classmates what we've learnt in a debate format but today, we have to choose a number which will tell us what our role in this activity is going to be, and in my case I have got the 'mediator' one.

The Fakebook profiles that my group had made was the following:

•     Rebeca Cascales Ribera - Authoritarian Leader: 
      http://www.classtools.net/FB/1000-bbRk3e

•     Marina Crevillén Fernandez - Transformational: http://www.classtools.net/FB/1162-jHhVAb

•     Silvia García Martínez - Transactional:
      http://www.classtools.net/FB/1304-xN8ffg

• María García Zamora - Participative Leader: http://www.classtools.net/FB/1098-H4hBQ2

Well, I had to prepare four general questions that include lot of knowledge of this topic with my group and then prepare the debate that our other stars had to defend. When the stars were with their groups preparing the information, ten minutes before starting I have told them the questions that we're going to ask them. 

The questions that we've written and we've asked for are the following:

1. What do you think that are the most crucial people for developing new projects and profound changes?

2. If there is a problem between teachers. Who are the person in charge of solving this? And, how would you do it?

3. What would you do as a Transactional/ Transformational/ Authoritarian/ Participative leader different from the others? What would you provide to the school?

  4. From your point of view, what do you think is the worst thing of your colleagues? 

Then, the debate has started, I had to control it, each group had two minutes to answer the question and as there were two people by group, it was one minute for each member. I asked the questions and they answer with order, respecting the turn when the others were speaking. 

  
Later, when they have finished the debate, our teacher Linda has reflected a bit of what they had done it well and bad, what they can improve, etc. 

Now, I'm going to speak about my experience as a mediator, I have never acted as a mediator, so it was something new to me. When I was asking the first question and controlling the time while the stars were answering I have realised that doing a debate is something difficult but controlling it too. I had to stop people when the time was off, I must stop them when they we're answering but this is something that I must do and I didn't do it. I think that I can do it better, but for being the first time it's not bad.

As a mediator, in my opinion I have to say that the stars have done it very well, there were lots of nervous, difficulties, bad organisations  but we learn from our own mistakes, so for people who have done it today, I have to say that they can improve and learn from today. So, I have to mark what is the best people who have defend it their ideals, and I think that Clara (KCKO) and Ana Isabel (Platypus), the transformational defenders, deserve this reward. Their way of expressing and caught their classmates attention has been crucial in their speech, so as they have taken my attention and I really "LOVE" their speaking parts, I'm going to say that they have win.

On the other side, as a group (Power Teachers), we've decided that it we have to chose a leader, we would chose a Participative Leader, because Gracia (Bussy Bees) and Noelia (Meerkats) have done it very well and they have explained correctly, showing that they want to improve for our welfare.

 Summarising, being the star this week has been very interesting, dynamic and entertaining. I would like to repeat this activity!

So bloggers, it has been a pleasure writting for you and I hope you have really enjoyed.

Rebeca:)