TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Aga Byrczek
a) To develop/improve trainers’ competencies especially connected with understanding and facilitating individual and group learning processes and designing educational programmes
b) To build a comprehensive understanding of invisible racism and how it needs to be tackled in the overall framework of antiracist work
c) To explore main topics connected with antiracist work – hate speech, microaggressions, power relations, prejudices and stereotypes, emotional awareness and good treatment
d) To learn how to use manual CONSTELLATIONS in training and youth work.
e) To empower participants to run antiracist activities with young people and encourage cooperation and develop common antiracist actions in their local environment/communities together with “racialized” people
The course was for 50 people from all the EU member states. Participants from 18 different countries has joined the course.
The course is composed of two parts - 20 hours will be implemented in the form of ZOOM meetings in real time, and 20 hours will be done on a self-paced basis via the www.youth-mooc.eu platform.
We have used the variety of the online tools, video learning materials, ZOOM, mentimeter, jamboards.
Training was composed to offer participants the possibility to reflect, we have used several visualizations, groups work, discussion, individual work etc.
Report from this activity: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/project-result-content/a1e9bd91-4b7a-4c46-8050-a72c6f6d7b06/STAR%20tot%20report.pdf
I was one of 4 trainers, and the project manager responsible for the logistics, and setting up the learning platform.
It was a pleasure to work with Aga on this training course, which we had to move from in-person to online format due to COVID-19. Aga took the leading role in coordinating the development of the course among the team, while also giving valuable input on his content and delivery.