TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Lyda Michopoulou
The goals of the event are for participants:
- To develop a professional and ethic youth trainer attitude;
- To develop soft skills that will be handy for training delivery and training program design;
- To be able to design, deliver, evaluate and follow-up an effective training program;
- To develop strategies and a personal network for further development of individual skills, and broaden personal knowledge on their own after the event.
The event targeted participants who were:
- members of local or international organization
- trainers to be
- active and creative
- used to evolve in international environment
- Used to work virtually
- motivated and enthusiastic towards their NGO
The participants group had 2 Sudanese, 1 Dutch, 3 Portuguese, 3 Hungarians, 2 Czech, 2 Spain, 1 Swiss, 1 Finnish, 1 British, 1 Turkish, 1 Russian, 1 Latvian.
The Trainers' Team had 1 Belgian, 2 Lithuanian, 1 Greek, 1 Ukranian & 1 Dutch.
The flow of the program of YTA is based upon:
- Experiencing: different educational settings, different non formal education methods (role play, simulation game, exercise...)
- Reflecting in groups: on the methods and its impacts, on the knowledge and experiences shared during the session.
- Transferring: to the own reality of participants, in order to improve ways of working with students and/or young people
- Sharing: different perceptions, current situations and experiences.
The goals of the event were for participants:
- To develop a professional and ethic youth trainer attitude;
- To develop soft skills that will be handy for training delivery and training program design;
- To be able to design, deliver, evaluate and follow-up an effective training program;
- To develop strategies and a personal network for further development of individual skills, and broaden personal knowledge on their own after the event.
A training is the success if the new trainers that graduate from YTA continue working and delivering training sessions, getting involved in new initiatives and projects and organizing training events.
A link to the YTA website: http://www.trainingthetrainer.eu/
I was a full-time Trainer.
My tasks&responsibilities as a full-time trainer were:
- before the event, prepare the training program together with the rest of the team, attend all online meetings, design training sessions, and its methodology, making the sessions as creative and unique as possible.
- during the event, deliver all the training sessions i had and coach 4 trainees on our reflection group
- after the event, evaluate the training session with my co-trainers and the rest of the trainers team, evaluate the training event as a whole and ensure that all participants received amazing handouts & reports.