TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Emir Shevkiiev
Aim of the project is to raise awareness about such socially important issues as gender equality, minorities rights and bullying (including cyber-bullying) through making escape rooms, as well as understanding how to use escape rooms as a learning tool.
Objectives:
• To raise awareness and spread ideas about socially important issues and human rights protection among participants, partner organisations and guests of the training course
• To teach Youth workers and NGO workers how to organize escape rooms for educational purposes
• To equip participants with knowledge, skills and attitudes on new approaches to education, especially HRE
• To create toolboxes on escape rooms (with schemes, scenarios, puzzle explanation,
etc.) that will also be used later
• To make a positive impact in such areas as gender equality, minorities rights and bullying (including cyber-bullying)
AFRL has one of the aims of its organisation to provide new tools and opportunities for youth workers. This training course equipped youth workers with innovative educational tool - escape rooms.
Participants of the training course were youth workers, youth leaders and NGO activists from the following countries: France, Estonia, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Romania
During the training course, we used a variety of methods and approaches of NFE. Some are:
- Role-playing
- Teamwork
- Research and presentation
- Ice-breakers and energizers
- Team building
- Personal reflection
- Presenting ideas
- Gamifying learning processes via houses competition
We achieved 3 main results during this activity:
1. We educated 24 participants of the training course on how to create educational escape rooms - 93% of participants responded in evaluation forms that they can build educational escape rooms and the remaining 7% responded that they "maybe" can build educational escape rooms.
2. Participants built 3 fully operational educational escape rooms on topics of freedom of speech, xenophobia and domestic violence. These rooms were built in 3 days. We had these rooms played by participants and guests 3 times with 4-5 people at each game.
3. We created 3 toolboxes with descriptions of escape rooms which can be found here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1znTD2b2-DfKr3rAirMcD17Y2yImBzuuR?usp=sharing . Anyone who wants to build similar escape rooms has access to all the information needed.
https://www.facebook.com/AFRLanguedoc/posts/617901349621093
https://www.facebook.com/logosngo/posts/4600504539971914
To develop and deliver the educational part of the programme together with my colleagues. To support participants' learning process. To coach them during the construction of escape rooms.