My learning path to youth work

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This activity will help you to look at and reflect on how and what you learnt on the way to becoming a youth worker.﻿
By completing this activity, you will be able to:
reflect on important learning moments in one’s life that lead to becoming a youth worker;
become aware of what and how you learnt on this journey;
share and compare with others (if possible).
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Step 1 Take a big piece of paper, some pens, pencils and paints. If you have access to natural materials, like stones, sticks or even sand, use them to "build" your pathway to becoming a youth worker. 
Look back over your life and think about times or events when you felt you were learning something significant to develop your competences for working with young people and building your youth worker's identity. 
The result of this reflection should end up on the paper or visual using the metaphor of a river or pathway.
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Step 2 In small groups of two or three youth work colleagues, share as much or as little as you want about your learning pathway with each other. Find out if there are any similarities as well as the major differences about what and how they learned in becoming a youth worker.
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"Reflective learning is a process that involves self-examination, where youth workers evaluate their practices and identify areas for growth and improvement."  Reflective learning for youth workers by Matteo Bartolini.
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Get inspired!After reflecting on your learning pathway to becoming a youth worker, have a look into the stories of others (download PDF publication).
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Inspiring resources:
﻿Mapping the educational and career paths of youth workers. Part I. The report.﻿
﻿Mapping the educational and career paths of youth workers. Part II. Diversity of practice architectures﻿
﻿The education of youth workers in formal education﻿
﻿Learning to learn in practice. A handbook for facilitators (see The River of Learning on pages 40-41)
﻿Reflective learning for youth workers﻿
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The Awero organisation created this educational resource and activity for the Erasmus+ Accreditation training for youth workers.
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This activity supports youth workers' competence development in the "Facilitating learning" area. Activity content and badge issuing criteria aligned with the European Training Strategy (ETS) competence model for youth workers to work internationally:
Skill of empathising in a way that others can learn from one’s experience
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Badge earner reflected on their learning milestones, sources and resources in becoming a youth worker. A person used creative materials to identify milestones and reflect on their significance to their learning and professional development.
To get this badge, youth worker:
Identified and reflected on their learning pathway to becoming a youth worker;
Shared and exchanged with other youth workers about their pathways.
Activity content and badge issuing criteria aligned with the European Training Strategy (ETS) competence model for youth workers to work internationally.
Learning duration: 1 hour 30 mins.

Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Complete the following badge tasks and upload relevant results on the following:
Visualise and reflect on your learning path to becoming a youth worker. Upload an image of your path and share your reflection on the significant milestones.
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Skills

#Skill of empathising in a way that others can learn from one’s experience

Facilitating learning

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Time to complete: 1 hour 30 minutes

Organisers

Nectarus

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