TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for vojislava tomic radivojsa
The main aim is to support the development of participants competences in relation to the process and value of non formal learning and recognizing competences of young people with fewer opportunities.
Objectives:
• To increase knowledge about the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities (especially school dropouts)
• To gain competences on how to stimulate the learning process of young people with fewer opportunities
• To explore the possibilities on how to support the self assessment and development process of young people’s competences
• To get familiar with different recognition tools, methods and approaches
• To exchange good practices about how these processes can effect personal pathways (for example employability) of inclusion target groups
Group: 25 participants from twelve European countries: Turkey, Iceland, Finland, France, Norway, Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Belgium-FL, UK, Czech Republic).
Team:
Vojislava Tomic (trainer, Serbia), Henk Persyn (trainer, Slovenia/Belgium-FL)
Katrien Ponsaerts (JINT, Belgium-FL), Liselotte Vanheukelom (JINT, Belgium-FL), Kristiina Pernits (SALTO T&C, Germany/Estonia) and Marija Kljajic (SALTO Inclusion, Belgium FL/Serbia)
Methodologically the program was based on non-formal learning principles using wide range of methods such as individual reflection, plenary inputs, games, small group work, plenary presentations, discussions etc.
Example
Title of the session: COMPETENCES
Background (context): Second working day, opening the topic of competences, exploring the concept the understanding and relevance of competence based approach for the youthwork. This session should build a common framework when working with competences through the whole training course.
Warm up exercise
In small groups : 1. step - task is to make gramophone, washing machine, toaster, bicycle from your bodies; 2. step - task is to present competence.
What is competence?
Word-storming In plenary comments on: what is there, what is missing, what is surprising
Short input:
Competences as defined in Youth in Action Program [knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, emotions] - holistic approach to learning. Source *Lynne Chisholm* (Bridges for Recognition Cheat Sheet: Proceedings of the SALTO Bridges for Recognition: Promoting Recognition of Youth Work across Europe, Leuven-Louvain, 2005)
Small groups - why working with competences?
Why working with competences is important in youth- work?
In small groups participants choose from what perspective they want to answer the question: from perspective of young people, youth-workers, or society.
Reporting back in plenary.
Interpretation of the data from the pre/post questionnaires.
Most of the participants had experience in working with young people with less opportunities but only few with working directly with school drop-outs, but not matter the prior experience with the target group the knowledge of inclusion approaches to school dropouts increased in general in the group. In relation the skills development it is clear that skills in supporting the self- assessment of young people were overestimated at the beginning of the training course and there is significant development of these skills by the end of the training course. In relation to the knowledge development, participants knowledge of the Youthpass and of possibilities within Youth in Action Program are the ones that increased the most. No matter participants were highly motivated for working with young people with less opportunities at the beginning of the training course, their motivation significantly increased by the end of the training course.
http://www.salto-youth.net/rc/inclusion/inclusiontraining/PastInclusionCourses/competencesforall/
There was also follow up questionnaire that was distributed 6 months after the training course. The results of it are available in follow up summary.
Further development of the training course concept, preparation and implementation of the actual training programme and evaluating and documenting the training course.