LEARNING UNIT n° 2 – M2: Empowerment

LEARNING UNIT n° 2

Motivational and empowerment competences

Duration: 14 hours
Module 2: Empowerment
Knowledge
–       To know the fundamentals of empowerment.

–       To know the indicators to know when someone is empower and recognize when someone is empowered (to take their own decisions, to be aware of their possibilities, etc.)

Skills
–       To make the NEET to examine evidences about his/herself:

o   To check facts about one life, considering the competences that acquired during his/her life both in training and in their work and leisure activities. They will realize that they have more competences that they thought, improving their self-confidence.

o   To analyse reasoning about one in order to have a real and transparent image about oneself.

o   Notice bias of oneself and try to have a better and real idea about his/her situation and the context.

–       To explore Issues in order to make the NEET know:

o   To make judgements about one’s potential and about the competences one need to improve.

o   To be able to draw conclusions of different situation of one’s life, knowing what is the most important in each situation.

o   To question assumptions

o   To explain reasoning an idea, fact, situation or period of life.

o   To identify live topics and analyse them.

o   To recognize connections between one’s lives, trying to take a common point.

o   To identify patterns about oneself related with the one’s interest.

–       To implement an strategy in order make NEET to realize and be aware of:

o   Their interests.

o   Their strengths and Opportunities.

o   Their weaknesses and threats.

o   The context where he/she lives and acts on.

Competences
–       To be able to establish a procedure to make the NEET to get to know him/herself in order to identify his/her competences.

–       To be able to stablish a plan taking in account the competences and the interest that one has, according to the opportunities in the context.

Course of the learning unit
Description of the contents of the LU:

–       Life history.

o   Formal, non-formal and informal learning.

o   Work experiences.

o   Leisure experiences.

–       Fundaments of motivation and empowerment.

–       Group dynamics.

Didactic methods
–       Team working.

–       Online learning.

Didactic tools for trainers
–       PC

–       Online access

–       Slides

–       Material of monitoring

Didactic tools for learners
–       PC

–       Online access

–       Slides

–       Material that the professionals could considerer. Guidance and Training Model for trainers leading training for socio-educational professionals working with NEET’S

o   Tool 2.1 – the trick questionnaire

o   Tool 2.2 – the blind driving with photograph

o   Tool 2.3 – the newspaper article and the stories construction

o   Tool 2.4 – a step ahead (game on technical power of the educational relationship)

o   Tool 2.5 – the watermelon game

o   Tool 2.6 – listening to count

o   Tool 2.7 – the story from different points of view

o   Tool 2.8 – the monster game (on power)

o   Tool 2.9 – film sequence on the educational relationship and / or management of the interview

o   Tool 2.10 – self-reflexive sheet on motivation

o   The emotional literacy

o   Tool 2.11 – emotion: stay next

o   Tool 2.12 – the complaint exercise

o   Tool 2.13 – self-reflexive sheet about what involves me during my work

o   Adolescence and young people

o   Tool 2.14 – the metaphor of our adolescence

o   Tool 2.15 – the representation of the generations through music and the graphic

o   Tool 2.16 – the sculpture on adolescence

o   Tool 2.17 – resource walk

o   Tool 2.18 – talent exchange market

o   Tool 2.19 – check your good memories

o   Tool 2.20 – my story

o   Tool 2.21 – start to be active!

–       Material that the professionals considerer

Needed material
–       Spaces that help to teamwork and reflection
Assessment of learning outcomes
Procedures and criteria for assessment of these learning outcomes.

We will evaluate if the student is able to:

–       Make NEET to know their competences.

–       Make NEET to know their interests.

–       Make NEET to stablish objectives and a plan to reach these objectives.

Mastery indicators of Learning outcomes or skills or competences or … acquired
Procedures and criteria for assessment of these learning outcomes.

o   We will evaluate if the student has the knowledge, skills and competences that are explained before.

Bibliography
Each country can use different materials adapt to the needs.

Sessions, goals, activities and time.

GOALS TRAINING TYPE TIME
SESSIONS 1 To know the motivation and demotivation factors related with professionals and NEETs.

To share experiences.

Face to Face, group activities 6
2 To acquire and experiments motivation techniques for self-motivation. Face to Face, group activities 6
3 To acquire and experiments motivation techniques for motivate NEETs. Face to Face, group activities 6
4 To reflect about motivation. Individual, online 2
5 To know the fundamentals and indicators of an empowered person.

Share experiences.

Face to Face, group activities 6
6 To learn how to use tools or different resources to empower others.

To experiments the tools regarding with empowerment with others.

Face to Face, group activities 6
7 To reflect about empowerment. Individual, online 2
TOTAL HOURS 34