TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Alexandro Jan Lai
the Mid Term Evaluation is an event of the Training and Evaluation Cycle. In this specific case the training involved both volunteers from the European Voluntary Service and from European Solidarity Corps programs. The MTE allows participants to assess their volunteering experience up to that point, to plan improvements and further steps - both within the activity period and after the end of the project and to raise awareness of their personal learning process.
Target group was made of 16 international volunteers from 8 different countries in the frame of EVS and Solidarity Corps volunteering. Participants were from Greece, Italy, Spain, Demark, Turkey, Norway, France and Portugal.
Team included another trainer (Stefania Zamparelli) and 2 logistic support team members.
The training was totally based on active and participatory methods typical of the NFL environment. In addition to usual activities there were also special workshops on podcasting as a tool to foster self awareness of learning progress among participants. Agenda was developed in order to comply with the TEC requirements and the National Agency guidelines.
Volunteers were supported in evaluating their projects and in understanding how to better self assess their specific learning goals and the competences reached during their volunteering project. The training was evaluated according to NA requirements and results of final questionnaires were extremely positive.
Together with my colleague Stefania Zamparelly we planned and delivered the training and its evaluation with the support of a specific 2 people logistic team. Me and Stefania shared all the responsibilities concerning content and methods choices and worked constantly as a team.