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Assessing one’s own learning achievements and competences
How to self-evaluate your own learning?
Why did I choose this tool? I find scaling and minimizing/maximizing techniques extremely helpful in personal development. These techniques are easy to use and the outcomes are very clear. What is most important, those tools don’t consume much time. How does this apply to being a trainer? It happens that trainers rarely evaluate their performance regularly and strategically. One of…
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Assessing one’s own learning achievements and competences
Circus as a tool for promoting readiness to make mistakes in learning
Why did I choose this tool? An important part of developing the competence to be able to assess one’s own learning achievements and competences is recognizing that making mistakes is a necessary and important constituent of any learning experience. Trainers learn about the significance of making mistakes in learning and not being afraid of making mistakes in front of others…
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Applies the concept of competence in a learning context
Competence as a Metaphor
Why did I choose this tool? This article invites us for creative exploration through visual images. How does this apply to a trainer? The trainer needs to be equipped with different tools which require different expressions. This exercise calls for unconventional exploration. The trainer would need to work actively, to draw and analyze, while at the same time discover himself…
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Acknowledging and dealing with unexpected learning moments and outcomes
Emotional Balance Graph
Why did I choose this tool? Emotional balance seems one of the core aspects of a healthy well-being. By analyzing aspects of our everyday life, we can come up with new ideas for improvement of our mental and body well-being. How does this apply to being a trainer? Mental well-being can be described as a combination of how we feel…
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Applies appropriate methods for assessment and self-assessment of their own learning achievements
Appreciative Story of a Learner
Why this tool? To raise awareness of the most important learning experiences in one’s biography. Make a list of the main influencing factors and events in one’s life and the topics that were the most instrumental in forming one’s personal development including influences from personal situations (friends, honorary posts, community involvement, voluntary work) as well as work. Why is this…
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Assessing one’s own learning achievements and competences
Sustaining Self-Care as a Learner
Why have I chosen this tool? Why self-care is important? Nowadays our life stays continuously under pressure. The speed of communication, transportation and information are increasing every day. Nowadays we die from completely different diseases than our ancestors did. To catch up, we are pushing the limits. This provokes hormonal revolution in our bodies, which produces too much hormones of…
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Assessing one’s own learning achievements and competences
Competence Hunting
Why did I choose this tool? The method we are presenting in this article was tested during one of our trainings. Practice proved its simplicity and powerful learning outcome. How does it apply to being a trainer? Why should the Competence Model for Trainers (CMT) be introduced to the group of learners? Till 2008 the profession trainer in the field…
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Applies the concept of competence in a learning context
Are you a Self-Directed Learner?
Why did I choose this tool? Today’s trainer should have a strong sense of personal agency to select and learn relevant information, that is to exhibit learner’s autonomy as it is so critical in supporting a productive and fulfilling professional life. How does this apply to being a trainer? Being a trainer in the frame of non-formal education is quite…
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Assessing one’s own learning achievements and competences
Am I ready to learn?
Why did I choose this tool? A true awareness of one’s own learning is a core quality of a professional facilitator of learning environments. Very often, as trainers, we assume that we need to learn constantly, always with the same passion and love. This pressure very often is so big that we are unconsciously blocking our natural learning experience. This…
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Applies appropriate methods for assessment and self-assessment of their own learning achievements
What drives you as a learner? Value assessment
Why did I choose this tool? Part of the competence of learning to learn is self-assessment of your own development. To know where we are heading to, first of all it is important to understand why we are doing this. RVS could help the learners to understand their own ecosystem and may inspire them for new actions in terms of…
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