TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Juan Cruz
The mid-term evaluation allows participants to assess their experience up to that point and to reflect on the activities, role and support of the host organisation and on their own contribution. The evaluation provides the opportunity to learn from everybody’s experience and enables the participants to plan developments and/or further improvements in their activity and to think about what they will do in the longer term, once their experience is over. The evaluation should also raise awareness of the personal learning process, linking it to the key competences of the Youthpass and Europass. It takes place long enough after their arrival for the participants to have gained enough experience to review their situation, but also sufficiently long before the end of the activity period so that there is still time to improve the situation if necessary.
Mid-term evaluations target ESC volunteers coming from EU and non-EU countries carrying out their volunteering project in Spain. There is always a mix of many nationalities and contexts of the participants.
Mainly we use reflection methods, discussions, teambuilding games and informative presentations.
By the end of the evaluation, each participant should have:
- personally assessed the activity so far and reflected on the scope of their activities;
- shared personal experiences;
- identified problems, difficulties, conflicts faced or about to be faced and consequently received satisfying support and clues on the ‘next steps’ to solve these problems;
- worked on developing/improving the activities they are involved in;
- received information and guidance on opportunities they could be involved in after the period of activity;
- understood how to use EU level recognition tools, such as Youthpass and Europass, to identify and document individual learning outcomes;
- received information about the Participant Report to be filled-in.
Member of the trainers' team: designing, implementing and evaluating the program of activities.
During a very demanding activity, Juan Cruz proves to be resilient, creative and, in fact, thrive, being able to deliver a very effective training which engages and is conductive to learning and self-reflection for our participants.