Training of Trainers for European YOUTH in ACTION Projects 2010/2011

This Training of Trainers lasts a year and consists of • three residential seminars • an international training project you design and run with some other participants • ongoing e-learning • ongoing mentoring with one of the course trainers as your mentor • a personal learning project The dates for the three residential seminars are: 1st seminar 17-26 September 2010 in Switzerland 2nd seminar 13-23 January 2011 in Sweden 3rd seminar 23 June - 2 July 2011 in Finland Specific objectives with respect to the trainees of the training course are to further develop and improve the following competences of participants: • The competence to plan educational activities in line with the values and purposes of the Youth in Action Programme. • The competence to develop and make explicit an educational approach which incorporates the key-concepts, values and consolidated practice of non-formal education. • the competence to direct your own learning • The competence to deal with ambiguity and change. • The competence to understand and facilitate learning of others. • The competence to design, implement and evaluate training programmes. • The competence to co-operate in international teams of trainers/facilitators. Furthermore: • To increase participants’ understanding of the educational context (i.e. Non-Formal Education, Life-Long Learning) in which this training course is placed; • To encourage participants to further develop and make explicit their personal training approach. Methodology and Structure of the course The course is designed to give participants the opportunity to experience, and reflect upon, being a trainee and a trainer. It is designed as a mutual learning process where participants can learn from each other and from the experiences they encounter during the course. Due to its long-term character, the course is designed in such a way that the three seminars are only ONE of the aspects shaping the learning process of participants. Acting as a responsible self-directed learner is a key feature of ToT. Participants have to be recruited and paid for by one of the National Agencies for the YOUTH IN ACTION programme, usually the one the participant lives in. Participants are expected • To have been already involved at least three times in a team of trainers designing, implementing and evaluating a training course in the framework of Non-Formal Education. • To have international experience with a function of responsibility (not only as a participant) in the field of Youth in Action projects/Youth work (such as Youth Exchanges, EVS-projects, etc.). • To have the potential and need to develop training competences and act after the course as a trainer for European Youth in Action projects and/or for training courses organised by the National Agencies of the Youth in Action programme. • To show initiative and willingness to self-direct their own learning process. • To be prepared to reflect on and question their own beliefs and approaches as trainers. • To develop, implement and evaluate an international training project (in the framework of Youth in Action programme) together with other participants as part of this training course. • To be able to run training courses in English.