TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Ismail Sehic
ETS for Youth Equality (EYE) is a 24 months strategic partnership in the field of youth addressing a group of young people who are affected by or deal with disability or impairment issues, aimed to create new educational opportunities and innovative approaches for the personal fulfillment of disadvantaged young people in Europe using the methodology of Education Through Sport (ETS).
Objectives:
• To implement a short-term joint staff training event for youth workers and sports trainers who deal with disabled or impaired young people in youth and sport contexts, involving 15 participants totally, 5 from each partner country.
• To release 6 Reports in multiple languages outlining the results of research on the best practices and education methodologies of ETS involving young people with disabilities or impairments, available with open access.
• To create 1 ETS for Inclusion Training Format for the inclusion of disabled and impaired young people, that will be tested from each partner country as a means of assessing its effectiveness and adequacy to the target and improving it for the final release.
• To produce 1 manual called “ETS for Inclusion Guide for Youth Workers and Sports Trainers” providing educational guidance for operators working with the ultimate target group.
• To develop 1 e-learning web platform complying with standards of accessibility enhancing the knowledge of ETS as an agent of learning and inclusion for disabled and impaired young people.
• To make 10 video-tutorials created by youth workers and trainers participating in the project activities, explaining the ETS methodologies.
The short-term joint staff training event is conceived as an instrument of testing the educational format developed in IO1 as well as laying the grounds for the delivery of the manual for operators conceived as the final product of IO2. Participants were 15 youth workers, sports trainers, and coaches, 5 for each participating organization, dealing with young people practicing sport activities and affected by disabilities or impairments.
Participants were coming from:
- Bulgaria (Bulgarians Sport Development Association)
- Italy (Mine Vaganti NGO)
- Ireland (Special Olympics)
The methodology employed was Education Through Sport, consisting of an educationally purposeful combination between Sport practice and Non Formal Education (NFE) methods/principles.
The training was based on the format training course created in IO1. It was a piloting activity of the training, therefore the participants will be asked to continuously provide feedback about the training, reviewing methodologies, activities and assumptions. Moreover, during the training, the youth workers and sport trainers will be asked to provide insights and suggestions about the future IOs foreseen by the project, mostly the manual (IO2) and the video-tutorials (IO3).
The core focus of the educational activity was to convey to participants soft skills and positive attitudes enhancing their personal development, the propensity to participate in further learning and continuous training and the ability to enhance social inclusion of disabled or impaired young trainees.
- 1 ETS for Inclusion Training Format
- 1 manual called “ETS for Inclusion Guide for Youth Workers and Sport Trainers”
- 10 video-tutorials created by youth workers and trainers
- New ETS training model
During this training, I was the only trainer and it was a big challenge to lead these activities because of the high quality of the participants, their knowledge and experience. It was challenging to transfer my knowledge to high professionals, but I manage and we got a great outcome. I was a trainer full time during all activities.