TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Bruno Pizzini
To give a great opportunity to the participants to learn by doing educational tools useful for the local and international activities and share good practices to face-off common problems.
Trainers team:
Adam Rikter - Hungary
Bruno Pizzini - Italy
Target group: active youngsters and youth workers and empower their organizations to increase their abilities in the field of non-formal education and inclusive activities in the area of youth work. From Hungary, Italy, Romania, Azerbaijan and Georgia
Learning by doing methodology. Using the non-formal methods to boost the experience of all the active volunteers and youth workers participants in order to empower them to lead and support the participants of international projects.
This project is mainly aimed to develop basic and transversal skills, such as entrepreneurship, digital skills and multilingualism in all fields of education and training, using innovative and student – centred pedagogical approaches an developing appropriate assessment and certification methods, based on learning outcomes.
So we intend to focus on the key competencies which provide better groundwork towards our goals.
During the TC we will use the structural maieutic approach, that is a process of voluntary education: the individual, impulsed by the trainers, discovers his own potentialities and after, he will be able to mature them in a communicative situation witch valorizes the direct relations inside the group, as this is a process of leaning which promotes self awareness in youth people.
Non-formal learning is a vital and fundamental educational methodology that can facilitate skills acquisition of young people with fewer opportunities. These skills include social and civic competencies, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, cultural awareness and expression, etc. This, in turn, enables them to actively participate in civic and cultural life and increase their employability by giving them confidence and transversal skills.
Planned learning outcomes of our participants regarding to their competence development during the Training Course:
Social and civic competence:
To become as active as possible (develope the attitude);
To learn ice – breakers from each other.
To get to know each other;
To explore different inter-cultural approaches;
To be able to set up expectations, fears and personal learning needs regarding to the topic of the TC;
To get to know more from each other;
To be able to make a common agreement for living together during this week.
To explore personal feelings, emotions which are raised up by discrimination.
To get to know more about represented organizations,
To explore cultural challenges they face within their everyday life and work.
To get to know more about successful inter-cultural youth projects of the local community;
Cultural awareness and expression:
To get to know more about each others and each others’ cultural background.
To identify personal cultural identity.
To be able to accept that everyone is unique and culturally different though sharing the same rights.
To get to know different cultural aspects of the represented countries and getting the deeper sights of cultures through its representatives’ identities.
To get to know more about the local culture and about the cultural identities of people who are living here.
To be able to present outcomes of inter-cultural learning experiences;
To be able to recognise the inter-cultural learning processes and its inter-cultural learning outcomes.
Learning to learn:
To be able to assess own learning processes and learning outcomes;
To be able to recognise the learning process within non – formal education;
To be aware of the process of competence development through learning experiences.
To get to know the theory of competence.
To be able to assess the achievements of personal learning needs;
To be able to make self – assessment regarding to learning outcomes;
To be able to be in a dialogue space and give and get feedback in related to learning process and learning outcomes.
To be able to overcome of the learning obstacles.
To be able to organise their own learning.
To be able to make self – assessment;
To be able to make a link between learning outcomes and competence development;
To be able to recognize own competence development.
Sense of initiatives and entrepreneurship:
To be able to put the cultural, democratic and European learning into practice.
To be able to use their personal and human rights and legislation in practice, making use of it to create better life perspectives.
To be able to get active in their communities and share the learning with others.
To gain knowledge on the steps of the different phases of a international project.
To gain knowledge on the objectives, priorities, expected outcomes and the structure of Erasmus + programme.
To recognise what type of support Erasmus + programme can give to youth work activities.
To be able to set up a project idea based on the needs of target groups;
To be able to present project proposals;
To be able to give and get feedback regarding to invented projects.
Trainer responsible for implementation of sessions on youth participation models, research on local realities, competence development, communication blockers, Erasmus+, Application Form of E+, and Transnational Youth Initiatives, as well as reflection groups and evaluation.