Stairways To Trainers

It is getting harder and harder to attract youth to education. Educators need to be more efficient, more entertaining and more creative to interest youth. Due to this, it is important to introduce non-formal education methods to make education more appealing and easier to understand for youngsters and young adults.

Objectives:

• turning business/formal trainers and teachers into non-formal professionals;
• learning and non-formal education: approaches, conditions, models, factors, processes;
• meeting the learning needs of the target group;
• practical tools and methods for designing, facilitation and assessment of educational activities;
• development and testing of own educational modules with/in front of a group;
• practice in feedback, empathy, coaching and communication skills;
• partnership-building and the development of follow-up activities.

The training course will be based on the specific needs of the participants and partner organisations, and will be highly participatory. Diversity, e.g. in the group of participants, will be considered as a resource for the exchange and transfer of competences, as well as special attention is paid to the intercultural dimension of the project. There will only be few frontal lectures, the main part of the training course will be delivered in the form of practical sessions implemented by the participants in a learning-by-doing fashion, using the full toolbox of non-formal education and experiential learning.