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Mapping your pathways to becoming a trainer
Mapping your pathways to becoming a trainer
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This activity invites you to look back on your journey to becoming a trainer and reflect on the key milestones that have shaped your development.
Becoming a trainer is often not a linear process. It is influenced by important people, meaningful experiences, organisations, and learning moments that contribute to how you design, facilitate, and understand learning today.
By exploring your pathway, you can become more aware of what has influenced your trainer identity, how your competencies have developed over time, and what continues to shape your learning.
By completing this activity, you will be able to:
- Reflect on important milestones that influenced your development as a trainer;
- Identify key people, events, and organisations that shaped your learning;
- Become aware of how you have developed your competencies over time;
- Share and compare your pathway with other trainers.
Step 1
Take a large sheet of paper and some pens, pencils, or colours. You may also use materials from your surroundings (e.g., stones) to create a more visual representation.
Look back at your journey of becoming a trainer. Think about significant moments that influenced your development. These may include:
- People who inspired or challenged you;
- Events, trainings, or experiences that shaped your approach;
- Organisations or communities that supported your growth
- Turning points that changed your direction or understanding
Create a visual representation of your pathway using a metaphor, such as a road, river, or landscape. Highlight the milestones that had the most impact on your development as a trainer.
Step 2
In small groups of peer trainers, share your pathways with each other. You can choose how much you want to share.
While listening to each other, explore:
- What types of milestones appear in your journeys? What patterns can you spot behind the obvious facts?
- What has influenced your learning the most?
- How are your pathways similar or different? What do you notice about how trainers develop their competencies over time?
Reflect together on what these insights mean for your ongoing development as a trainer. Go to the badge and submit evidence from your reflection on trainer pathways.
The Awero organisation created this educational resource and activity for the Erasmus+ Accreditation training for trainers.
This activity supports trainers’ competence development in the Learning to learn area. Activity content and badge-issuing criteria aligned with the European Training Strategy (ETS) competence model for trainers working internationally. In particular:
- Assessing one’s own learning achievements and competencies;
- Undergoing personal/ professional development through feedback.
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The badge earner reflected on their journey of becoming a trainer and identified key milestones that have shaped their development.
To get this badge, trainer:
- Created a visual representation of their trainer pathway;
- Reflected on key people, events, and organisations influencing their development;
- Identified patterns in their learning journey and how these contributed to their competencies;
- Shared and compared their pathway with peer trainers
Activity content and badge issuing criteria aligned with the European Training Strategy (ETS) competence model for trainers working internationally.
Learning duration: 45 mins.
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Task no.1
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
To get this badge:
- Create a visual representation of your pathway as a trainer, highlighting key milestones, including people, events, organisations, and turning points. You can attach a visual representation as an image if you have one.
- Share 2-3 key insights from your reflection on your pathways to becoming a trainer.
Skills
ETS-TR
#Ацэнка ўласных вучэбных дасягненняў і кампетэнцый
ETS-TR
#Праходжанне асабістага / прафесійнага развіцця праз зваротную сувязь
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Awero
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Awero not-for-profit organisation manages this platform and develops it together with leading educational organisations. The European Union's programme Erasmus+ granted co-funding for building the first version of this platform. Contact support@awero.org.
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