TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Ezgi Dilan Dibek
✓Know-how - To provide the participants with information on how some things are
done, why some things are done in particular way, what is behind the scenes of a
well-organized training/project, to peek into the decision making process, in the
team management and in the preparation.
✓ Improve participants soft skills such as public speaking, presentation skills, selfexpression skills, listening skills, emotional intelligence and other. Attitudes,
values and behaviors are also part of the mix.
✓ Provide methods and tools for delivery of workshops – such as different types of
simulations, team building games, role playing, visual expression, feedback and
coaching, creating a learning environment, managing group dynamics.
✓ Provide hard copy materials. We are working on creating a Trainers library with at
least 350 articles for self-directed-learning that will address the all the trainers
competence areas, which you will use in the 9 months between the two training
courses to develop your competences as a trainer.
✓ Provide feedback to the participants. It is very important for you to receive
feedback and do it again, so we would see the growth of the participants during
the project.
✓ Showcase different styles of trainers. The trainers from different
backgrounds and professions have very different working styles. This will help
the participants see different approaches and ways of working which would then
lead them to finding their own unique style in the future.
✓ Coaching and mentoring. Apart from the mentoring and feedback during the
project, for this edition we will have 12 months mentoring process for all
participants after the project until their first/next training experience.
✓ Self-assessment. Sometimes young trainers are not aware of the qualities they
have and things they know. The self-assessment will be made according to the
European trainer’s competence model, and each participant will develop a
learning plan that they will follow in the next 12 months.
✓ Critical thinking – The participants will have the opportunity to analyze everything
and develop critical thinking skills. After each workshop we take off the
"participant hat" and put the "trainers’ hat" and analyze why we did this or that.
✓ To offer opportunities for quality training experiences and project development.
✓Organizing joint projects, creating pool of trainers, getting shadow-trainer
opportunities.
Target group: Youth leaders, youth workers, presidents of NGOs, EVS/ESC coordinators or mentors, project
managers, trainers, people who want to become trainers.
The level ranges from complete beginners to intermediate. The project is targeting all people that are
responsible (or will be in future) for transferring the
knowledge within the organization and organizing and delivering educational activities and projects. The participants were selected from Germany, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal.
The main method used during this training was learning by doing. The participants were given tasks and short deadlines in order to achieve their tasks. They are going to be guided by the trainers. After the tasks they were receive feedback and suggestions for improvement. “It’s up to me” is a holistic approach on how to develop quality youth workers and trainers that are going to work on transferring know-how, organizing and delivering high quality projects within the Erasmus + program. This project is going to contribute towards raising the quality of the Erasmus + projects that are going to be organized in future, develop capacity for the organizations and it will improve the quality of youth work in general. Some of the activities involve things that you already know which we are going to refresh and see different points of view from different trainers, we will go over how to design projects and activities from A to Z, learn about tools and methods available, work on mastering your soft skills – basically all skills that you need to design and deliver educational activities, projects and exchanges. The workshops selected are based on the different competences from the Trainers competence model (European Training Strategy).
In this first phase participants were shared and developed their soft skills related to being an NFE trainer, exposed to different training methods, characteristic styles for youth projects, formed their working teams for 6 month online process. All outcomes are shared on the website of the project: https://itsuptome.eu/, and also the project offers toolboxes, methods and articles to the trainers: https://www.trainerslibrary.org/
Provision of the shadow trainer role which supports services related to the Erasmus+ project "Train the trainers - It’s up to me 8" hosted by NaturKultur e.V.:
includes but are not limited to – co-planning,
support and co-implementation of activity sessions of “Train the trainers – Its up to me 8” project.