TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Emir Shevkiiev
Aim for the project:
To increase critical thinking skills among youth leaders, youth workers and NGO activists and their stakeholders through learning about tools and methods to improve critical thinking and by creating tools and workshops which later would be used in local communities.
Objectives:
● To increase critical thinking skill among participants of TC and their stakeholders
● To improve quality of youth work in partner organisations
● To promote active citizenship and understanding of democratic processes through knowledge on critical thinking and media literacy
● To create 6 tools and workshops about critical thinking for youth workers which can later be applied to local communities
● To fight fakes, propaganda, prejudice, misinformation,etc.
● To develop new activities within the “Skepsis” movement to have better continuation and spreading of ideas about critical thinking
The training course was developed to increase the level of critical thinking and media literacy skills which are some of the most important skills today. For partners of this project was important to provide their members with knowledge and skills, which would be valuable when working with youth. This project was also done as a part of the international Skepsis movement which aims to promote critical thinking and media literacy.
Participants of the training course were youth workers, youth leaders and NGO activists from the following countries: Czechia, Poland, Spain, Italy, Romania, Lithuania, North Macedonia
During the training course, we used a variety of methods and approaches of NFE. Some are:
- Role-playing
- Teamwork
- Research and presentation
- Ice-breakers and energizers
- Team building
- Personal reflection
- Presenting ideas
- Gamifying learning processes via houses competition
Our main goal was to educate our participants about critical thinking and media literacy and provide them with tools to educate young people back at home. We think that we achieved these goals.
1. We educated 24 participants about basics of critical thinking and media literacy. When asked in the evaluation "Do you think that this Training course was useful for you and that you will use what you’ve learned back home?" 100% of participants responded "Yes"
2. Participants now understand how to deliver workshops about critical thinking or media literacy. When asked in the evaluation form "Do you think that you can make a workshop about critical thinking or media literacy now?" 75% answered "yes" and 25% answered "maybe"
3. Participants developed 6 workshops about media literacy and critical thinking and presented them in front of the group. These workshops are available here - https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1oAJz9m6KMNCvaM7HQS8j2DJ7TkdInNlu
https://www.facebook.com/cefiginternational/posts/439054984240354
https://www.facebook.com/logosngo/posts/4656442757711425
To develop and deliver the educational part of the programme together with my colleague. To support participants' learning process. To coach them during the development of their workshops.