Helper post

Hi! I'm Mari Carmen and I've been the helper this week.

This finally last week was about different kinds of leadership teams. Each group had to create a profile for each of the different leadership style. I was in charge of the Participative Leadership style.
I read carefully what were all the styles about. Then I made my participative leader profile in fakebook.com for school elections.

I found interesting the fact that depending on how you act you will get some results or another from your collages, employes, .... It's quite curious.

Thank you so much for been reading our post all this time
Hope you enjoyed them as we did

Bye!! :)

Making photos as a good Journalist.

Hello bloggers. 

I am Lucia, this past week I have the role of journalist. For me it is an honor to be your eyes in the activities we have done in this last week.

We had to perform four Fakebook profiles of the four types of policy there.
Monday when we got to school, Linda was a sweepstakes and the four profiles were divided into different groups. They came together in pairs different class groups.
Then we prepared and conducted a debate in which the two stars of the groups exposed their ideas about their type of politician, being defending his candidacy and attacking the other candidates.
Here I leave some of the photos taken, the preparation of applications for our profile, authoritarian, with the SevenUP group, and the representation in the discussion of our stars Maria, and Ana de SevenUP.

Thank you for your attenttion guys and be happy. Remember that love is in the air.... LOL

Lucía.

Shining as a real Star

Hi everybody!!

I am María and this week my role is the "Star". I have already been star but it was quite different due to I only had to present our video in class. This time, I have been involved in a debate.
It was a good experience but I missed the round of discussion but it was a very interesting session.
Our leader to defend to was the Authoritarian one and we used three profiles of all of the our colleges, here you have the links to those one that we used to prepare our final profile for the debate:

http://www.classtools.net/FB/1136-NYkPTm (powerpuff teachers)
http://www.classtools.net/FB/1625-rnH6WM (SevenUp)
http://www.classtools.net/FB/1000-bbRk3e (power teachers)

In my opinion, the best profile of all, for the leadership of a school, is the participative. Although we had the authoritarian profile to defend in the debate; and it is a bit difficult because is quite difficult that people vote for a person how is going whatever he/she thinks.
The participative is the best option for me personally due to this profile is aware of everyone at school, opnions or advice even comments are take in account and all of the staff participate when a decision has to be taken.

The links of our own group's leadership profiles are:

Transactional

http://www.classtools.net/FB/1231-BnBruk#

Authoritarian

http://www.classtools.net/FB/1136-NYkPTm

Participative

http://www.classtools.net/FB/1386-Cg2K9x


Transformational


The links of the rest of the authoritarian leaderships profile of our class' colleges:

Seven up:  http://www.classtools.net/FB/1625-rnH6WM

Power teachers:  http://www.classtools.net/FB/1000-bbRk3e

Power puff teachers:  http://www.classtools.net/FB/1136-NYkPTm        

Meerkats:  http://www.classtools.net/FB/1355-aaU9uD

Umpalumpas:  http://www.classtools.net/FB/1518-3yNFak

Its school:  http://www.classtools.net/FB/1555-JCW4sD

Keep calm:  http://www.classtools.net/FB/1770-ukWHgL

Platypus:  http://www.classtools.net/FB/1972-dSmuNE

Thanks for reading, I hope you like it. :)

CARMEN AS A CURATOR FARMER

Hello everybody!

I am Carmen Carpena, a member of the group 'The PowerPuff Teachers' and this week I am the... CURATOR FARMER!!

This week we have done profiles of fakebook to do a campaign to vote for us in a type of elections. We have had to explain the good things about our type of leadership (authoritarian, participative, transactional, transformational) to convince people to vote for us and not vote for the other participants. It has been a very nice and funny work.

Here you can see all the references we have used to do this work.

- Aulavirtualumes. (2015). Aulavirtualumes. Retrieved 19 May, 2015, from https://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2014_N_N/Bilingual Group/leadership.pdf

- Aulavirtualumes. (2015). Aulavirtualumes. Retrieved 19 May, 2015, from http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-transactional-leader.html

In-text citation: (Aulavirtualumes, 2015)

- Aulavirtualumes. (2015). Aulavirtualumes. Retrieved 19 May, 2015, from http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-transformational-leader.html

In-text citation: (Aulavirtualumes, 2015)

- Aulavirtualumes. (2015). Aulavirtualumes. Retrieved 19 May, 2015, from http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-authoritarian-or-autocratic-leader.html

In-text citation: (Aulavirtualumes, 2015)

- Aulavirtualumes. (2015). Aulavirtualumes. Retrieved 19 May, 2015, from http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-participative-or-democratic-leader.html

In-text citation: (Aulavirtualumes, 2015)

And here is the URL of our pearltree, I hope you enjoy the blog! Thank you

http://www.pearltrees.com/carmencs911

Translator post

My name is Julia and this week I am the Translator. But not only that, as four representatives were requested, I was part of them, I was the Transactional Leader.

Now I am going to describe the most important terms of this week.

- Authoritarian: this type of leadership directs the center on their own way. They also want everything going how they say, so they are going to do anything. They are egoists, and they do not use motivation on their workers. It could similitate with dictator.

- Participative: this one is more close to their workers. They hear everything they have to say, and do whatever so they are happy. They want their workers to share and participate in every project.

- Transactional: in order to have a good environment and the work well done, they focused on the supervision so they know exactly what they have to improve, also they want everything very organized. They use the reward/punishment style so they work harder and better.

- Transformational: this leader is the creative one. They want to identify all the problems that have to change. They use motivation and morale to make out of their employees, better workers.

- Leadership team: this team is the one that is in charge of the school. They have to guide in any circumstance, and also they have the power of instruction so they can manage the knowledges of their workers. And, of course, they direct the center.


Thank you very much for reading!

The more you collaborate, the more you facilitate!

Hello everybody! This is the last time that maybe I write in this blog because this course is almost over. Feelings of sadness and happiness come to my mind remembering this long trip of this subject. In my opinion, we have learned many many things, we have had really fun with our own group and with the groups of the rest of the class, we have shared a lot of things and we have lived such good as bad things but always we have learnt with those things.

This week we had to do four profiles in fakebook related to the four types of policy: transformational, transactional, participative and authoritarian.

So, in order to do this activity we met on Wednesday. We did not have any type of problem about the meeting and we spent not so much time to do the activity. We read all the information Linda gave to us and then we create the profiles.

On Monday our star and the star of Seven Up answered the questions that the moderators gave to every group defending their authoritarian leadership and face with the other groups that like us, they defended their leadership style too.

Well, the roles of this week have been:

-          María as a star.

-          Carmen as a curator-farmer.

-          Ana as an analyst.

-          Julia as a translator.

-          Mari Carmen as a helper.

-          Lucía as a journalist.

-      Inma (me) as a facilitator.

 

We hope you enjoyed this long trip we are really glad to have shared with you!

With love ...   INMA ÁLVAREZ

Last analyst... for the moment!

Hello bloggers, it’s Ana here again, but this time is the last one… I am a little bit sad, because taking into apart all the stressful moments this subject has given to us, we have laughed a lot and had a good time.

But well, let’s focus on the last week of work. This time we have to discuss about the leadership team at school and we did a kind of debate in class, so we had to chose which has performed the best, we were not one of those, but personally I think that we did it quite well and also we had a difficult situation because we were the first who had to talk.

For me the best moment of the week was this last time at class, was our last grouped work together and it is going to be hard not to come running to the university on Monday to be on time. Maybe the worst moment (as always) was to choose a day to prepare the activity because we had to be focused also in the portfolio so we had to change some of our plans... but as I have said it was going to be the last time, so we had to be more flexible, in terms of timetable if it could be.

This activity has been maybe not easier than the rest of the activities but it has been more “interesting” because we are really close to the elections so making the profile of Fakebook has been interesting as well as funny. As I have said before maybe the worst part as always has been look for a moment to spend together.

Personally I think that is one of the things we have to improve for other subjects. Working in groups is never easy in these terms but I think that we have improved a lot since the beginning even thought we have to continue improving.

Hope you have enjoyed our blog and maybe one day will return to this blog world.

Kisess!!

Journalist post

Hello, and wellcome to The Powerpuff Teachers blog! I am the Journalist this week.

The aim of the wark of this week was to create a video talking and solving the stuation that other group have gave us. Power Teachers was that group.

We met on wednesday, that day all of us came to my house and eat all together, so we didn't miss a minute, a almost inmidiatly, we started to work. As we all had already read the law and the coexistence plan of one school, we started thinking how we solve this problem. In order to save time, Lucia and Ana started to record while the rest though the solution. Then we want to a school near my house to record the rest of the video. Once we have finished we all came back to our homes.

We decided to assambly tha video in class, but I have all the video, because the camera is mine. I was very ill that day so I didn't go to class. I felt very guilty so I assambled it. As I was doing it, I thought about puting subtitles so it can be understand, so I divided the videos, and the other made it.

Once it was finished I uploaded it to Youtube, and also I save it in a pen drive.

On monday, we saw all the videos. At first we started to comment out loud the videos and what were their three good things, and also what we missed. But we were very slow at first, so we saw the last videos without talking about them. After that, Linda told us to go on our class videos and coment with the three good things and one bad. It was hard due to the quality of all the videos, but all of us have something to improve.

Thank you class for all your comment, we expect we can improve all of what you have told us.

Best regards, Julia.

Analyzing the situation

Hello everybody! 

This week I am the analyst again. I think this is one of the most important roles because you have to analyze everything your colleagues have done in order to complete the activity and you have to pay attention all the time because you must evaluate them the better as you can.

This week has good things and moments but also bad parts or moments too, as the previous weeks. However, I think that this week has more good moments than bad moments.

First of all, on Monday every group had to create a conflict. Our conflict was about Pablo, a eleven year-old boy, who behaves badly because of a problem in his house. Teachers believe that the behavior of his parents reflected a violent situation between them.

With this conflicts, we had to create a piece of news in which the star was the reporter of the news. In our case, we did the conflict of Power Teachers which is about a P.E teacher who committed sexual abuse to his female students.

As always, we had the same problem… We did not agree about the hour and the day in order to meet and do the activity because everyone have different schedules. So, after arguing and suggesting everything we thought in order to everybody of the group could go, at last we decided to meet on Wednesday.

In my opinion, our problem is that we are always complaining about wasting time if we met but, I think we waste more time deciding because we have to dedicate time to this subject no matter what…since we have to spend much time if we want to pass it so, it is a reality and we have to accept if we have to spend the whole afternoon doing the activity. This is a thing we have to improve…

Moreover, we had a problem with the activity because in every Coexistence Plan we read we found students-students conflicts, always against children. Luckily, our colleague, María found the Coexistence Plan of the law in which specify every kind of conflicts.

On the other hand, there were not only bad things, but also there were really good things. For example, we had really fun recording the video especially when we have to record the advertisements which are really funny thanks to our good actress Lucia (our star). We could not stop to laughing with the outtakes too so, we had a blast J.

In addition, another good thing is all the things we have learnt with this activity. We have learnt what is the Coexistence Plan, every school have a different one and this is an important thing to know if it is a good school or not. We have learnt how to sort out many types of problems because we have also seen the videos of the other groups and they have different conflicts…

I think our video is a good one because we have included in the video many perspectives: the mothers of the some victims, how this problem is seen from outside (a mother who have just had a baby and know the school very well), the tutor and the headmaster. If we did not include the victims perspective was because we think they are affected and they are underage. Therefore, this is a thing that we have to conserve because we spent time wisely in order to do the activity the best as we could.

To sum up, I think this activity is really useful for our future as a teachers because it will help us in order to a better solve the problems we can have with other teachers, students and parents at the school.

I hope you enjoy this post. See you next time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Inma Álvarez

Curator-farmer post

Hi there!

I'm Mari Carmen and for this week I was in charge of  curator role.

We worked on Coexistance Plans, that are those that must be followed in case "normal" cohabitance on schools get troubled. We had to record a documentary video about an example case written by another group and upload it to youtube.

So, we started looking for coexistance plans in primary schools in Murcia and what the law says about them. We compared both documenets and started figuring out how we could represent it. We thought about the several things we would take into account, such as which point of view we would adopt (girl's, P.E teacher's, mother's,..).But finally we opted for the adults interviews one in a kind of "Powerpuff Girls"news called "Townsville alive!".

In the overall of this week I feel happy. We only meet once, so I thing it is great we are getting used to be effective when it comes to planning and distributing work. In fact, we changed several times gathering date, but we all manage to find the best moment.

The more remarkable issue of this week project, in my view, was when I read Mariano Aroca's coexistace plan and thought "ummm, I can't find the solution just following this as a guide". And going strait away to borm documment where it was said the same but also naming teachers and other adults of the school as trouble makers.

 We found out, to our surprise, that our primary school coexistance plans didn't contain conflect resolution for teachers-teachers, parents-teachers, students-teachers; meanwhile in the BORN  document it was stablish a protocol for all of them. 

It's kind of tricky the only ones considered problematic enough, in most of the schools,to be in coexistance plans were students.

References:

-Colegio Público de Educación Infantil y Primaria “Mariano Aroca” de Murcia (mayo 2006). [Internet] Plan de Convivencia Escolar. Retrieved from http://www.marianoaroca.es/files/plan_convivencia.pdf

-Equipo Directivo del Colegio Santa María (10 mayo 2007). [Internet] Plan de Convivencia. Retrieved from http://www.colegiosantamaria.es/download/ensenyanca/plan_de_convivencia.pdf?rdm=2

- España. Boletín Oficial Región de Murcia. Resolución de 28 de septiembre de 2009, de la Dirección General de Ordenación Académica, sobre aspectos relativos a la aplicación a las normas de convivencia escolar.[Internet] Boletín Oficial de la Región de Murcia, 19 de octubre de 2009, núm. 240, pp. 54375- 54382.  Retrieved from http://borm.carm.es/borm/documento?obj=anu&id=384386

Thanks for reading :)

See you soon!

Helping as a good Helper

Hi bloggers!

The end is near but we continue with all of you :)

I am María and this week my role is "Helper".

This week I have contributed on the recording of our video about the Coexistence Plan. Really, almost all of us have participated on the recording of the video.

I have to say that it has been a very good week, we have worked very coordinate and well so we have not got any problems at all.

It has been very fun and not so difficult and we have learned the Coexistence Plan, I mean the part of the current Law that is focus to it, and many things related to it, as for example that each School has to elaborate its own one and that the goverment only gives indications to follow.

It has been so good.

See you next week!!

I hope you like our video as much as to us.

:)

THE TRANSLATOR IS HERE AGAIN!

Hello everybody!

My name is Carmen Carpena, a member of the group 'The PowerPuff Teachers', and this week I am the... TRANSLATOR!

This week the work has been funnier than other weeks because we have had to do a video in which we had to show a problem in a school proposed by other group. In our case, is the group 'Power Teachers' who have proposed our conflict.

The words I have chosen to explain in this week are:

COEXISTENCE PLAN: Is a document related to the education field. Each centre have one and it consist in:

- Obtain a good atmosphere in the school.
- How to act in situation in which students do not behave in the way they have to.
- How to act if we are noticing a case of bullying.

http://ifpsmislata.edu.gva.es/joomla_EN/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=35

VIDEO DOCUMENTARY: It is a way to explain a problem or to tell a story in a funny way using images, music and technologies. It can be said this is a way of enterteinment due to the animation and the movement of the video.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Video+documentary

SEXUAL ABUSE: It is a non-consensual sexual contact. This can happen to women and to men, depending on the case in which we are. To do this abuse, the offender can use objects, toys, pills, drugs, etc to cause pain or humillation to the victim.

http://www.pandys.org/whatissexualabuse.html

PROTOCOL: It is a document which contains a group of rules and procedures to follow in all the situations that can happen in public or private centres, in this case in schools.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/protocol

OUTTAKE: It is a scene which is not planned to be showed in the video or film. They are the scenes in which the actors commit mistakes and they are not validate to show in the screen.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outtake

I hope you enjoy the post and the blog and find them useful! Thank you!

Lucia as a Star.

Hi guys!
This time I become again the star of our group. This week we us have to deal a conflictive issue in a center proposed by one group of our class. The issue was the sexual abuse of girls by a physical education teacher. As Star I had to appear in the video as a journalist. We have explained the subject recording different views of the tutor, the headtress, the neighboring and some mothers, all represented by my colleagues. To establish the solution or the measures figuring out to solve the problem we had to look for a coexistent plan of a school, also we found the solution in the current law, because in the coexistent plan only it found the measures to be taken when sexual abuse is made from student to student, while the law is in every possible way.

On Monday when we arrived to class we saw videos of all our partners and we have to value them, highlighting the three things we most liked and one thing we've been missing.

As a star I found this activity very funny, as we have learned about the coexistent plan an entertaining and fun way to make a video documentary.

Here you have the video so you can see our work:

https://youtu.be/xu5dC8IkpXA

Thank you one more time for your attention and see you son guys.

Lucía.

A facilitator once again

Hello bloggers, here again Ana as a facilitator.

This week has been a little bit surprising and stressful for all of us. We thought that the game was going to be the last activity as we are almost finishing but it was not, so on Monday after giving prices (if you were asking yourself, no, we did not get any price) we started with a new and awesome activity.

In this activity we had to invent a problem that could happen in a school and we changed the problems with the other groups. Once we have changed, with the problem we had received we had to think a solution and record a video in which we had to seem to be in the news.

So after this, on Monday we start looking for information (all of us in our houses) and we found the “solution” that real schools could have. After this, we put all this information in common and we think on a definitive solution. Now it was the moment to record us.

We had lot of problems (as every week) because all of us have very different timetables and while some of us have to be at the official school, others have classes or whatever, so it is always very difficult and stressful to find a good solution. After lots of whatsapp messages we found a definitive solution in which all of us could stay at least one hour in order to help a little bit.

So, now we were on Wednesday and we have lunch all together, so at four o’clock we could start recording our star. All of us appear in the video, so it was very funny seeing ourselves just laughing hours and hours, but the final video was pretty good.

On Thursday we tried to mix all the small videos but the girl who had it was ill, so she said that she could do it at home, what we did was to subtitle all the video in terms to help her.

I think, apart from all the problems we had to found a day to record the video, we did a really good job and all of us worked a lot in different things. I personally believed that we are learning to work in groups.

Star post 2

Hello Bloggers,

I am Ana and  this week I had a VERY, VERY important role, I had to be the star in the game Snake and ladders.

We had one entire week to prepare the game and so did Inma (who was the star in that moment). Me and Maria were been prepared what was really demanding because we had lots of works as we are on the end of the semester. When everything was almost ready we had really bad luck when Maria told us that she was not able to come on Monday due to medical problems. Julia was selected to be the star, so she had lot of work for the weekend.

We have to thanks our sponsorship (the rest of the group) all the costumes (they were dressed up as the PowerPuffGirls) and the encouragement, because on the game day we were really nervous.
We had to start the game (in my opinon this was the worst part) we were so nervous that Julia and me got completly in blank that means loose our time.

Everybody knows that in these type of games apart of knowing the correct answer you also have to be lucky, and personally I think we were not lucky at all, because when we started to answering the questions correct we loose our turn (we fall in a snake).

This is the summary of these important weeks, maybe we have not win but we have learned a lot and we had the opportunity to play a new game that could be used with our students.

Last but not least I would like to congratulate (in special) to Power Teachers and Keep Calm & Keep Organised because they performed really good and without nervous. Enjoy your price!!!

Star Post

This week have been different than the others. We didn't have to make an exposition or a slideshow or whatever.

This week we played snakes and ladders. You may think: What is that?
Snakes and ladders is game were several players are on a board, and they have to answer correctly all the questions they are asked, but it is not only that, on the board there are some ladders that help you go up if you get the exactly number, but also there are some snakes that make you go down ans lose your turn. This is how the board looks like:

You can say: why are you doing that in class?
But it is not that simple, what we use as questions were the ones we have done before withe the mindmaps, so we had to study all of them.

As an estrategy, if you can call it that, we chose the stars as soon as posible so they have all the time they need. We made them the mindmas by hand and highlighted were they can find the questions, so it is easier for them. And also our coach Inma, help them to study.

But we had some problems with one of the stars, she had a very important medical date, so she couldn't cancel it, so we chose another star (me: Julia). It was very difficult because it was wednesday, and there was no time so I had to study all the mindmaps as fast as I could. I didn't want that all the pressure off for Ana, so I did as I could.

Monday came, and the game started. We were the first and we were very nervous (at least me), and we answered wrong. The other groups were very well-prepared, and got a lot of answers good, but correct answers is not only what you need, you need luck, and we didn't have any. At the end of the three hours of endless game, we were the last ones, on the 7. But we had a bit of light because, we were going to continue the game on thursday, so we had time to study it again.

On thursday, we were less nervous, and we acepted that we were not going to win, but we wanted to do our best though. When it was our turn, we did it very well, we were around 20, when I threw th dice ande went to 23, where is a snake that take you to 6. Not only we were the last ones again, we were in a worse position. I think it was very awful, but it was funny as well.

Though they were very close, and everybody thought that the winners were going to be Keep Calm & Keep Organized, the winners were Power Teachers.

I am very happy for them. Congratulations Power Teachers!

My best regards, Julia.

(Sorry I didn't put photos, I couldn't find them)