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Youth Worker Teamwork Lab: Research, Design, Apply
Youth Worker Teamwork Lab: Research, Design, Apply
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Every youth worker team develops its own ways of handling teamwork — insights that too often stay inside that one team.
This is your chance to change that: team up with peers from other countries, tackle a real teamwork challenge together, and turn what you learn into something other youth workers can actually use.
In this activity, you will work in an international team of 3–4 youth workers, based on a shared interest in a topic related to youth workers' teamwork competences.
Your mission is to explore real needs and available resources, and transform them into an educational activity or resource that other youth leaders and youth workers can use, individually or as a team.
This activity draws on the ETS-YW competence area of Collaborating in teams — specifically, promoting communication and collaboration among team members, ensuring that knowledge, skills, and preferences within the team are shared and communicated, and allocating adequate resources and time to team building.
What will you learn?
- Analyse the needs and challenges of youth worker teams working internationally
- Map and select resources relevant to designing a learning activity or resource
- Collaborate effectively in an international team, sharing tasks and combining different perspectives
- Translate needs research findings into a practical resource other youth workers can use
Objective: Deepen your practical knowledge and understanding of a specific aspect of teamwork, while producing a resource together in an international team of 3–4 youth workers.
Expected result: An educational resource on a specific topic related to teamwork, “packaged” into a product that other youth leaders and youth workers can practically use.
Audience: You and the other participants in your session — and, afterwards, other youth leaders and youth workers who use the resource.
Step 1. Identify topics and needs
Choose your topic of interest related to a specific aspect of collaborating in a youth workers' team, ideally in an international context. Then, form a team of 3–4 peers. “Unpack” the topic together.
Prepare a mini-research on needs — drawing on input from other participants (your colleague youth workers), external online sources, and reflection on your own experience. Conduct research to gather results and insights.
Step 2. Develop content and product
Exchange and agree on what to produce, and divide the tasks. Create content and resources that address the topic and needs, ensuring they include clear learning content, useful resources (articles, tools, methods), and practical exercises or methods that youth worker teams can use.
Produce something concrete — analogue or digital — for youth leaders and youth workers to use. Your team is free to choose the format.
Step 3. Evaluate teamwork
This activity follows the principles of experiential learning. So before you wrap up, take a moment as a team to look back honestly at how you actually worked together, not just what you produced. Let's evaluate your teamwork experience following the guidance below.
Recommended method: 3P — Product, Procedure and People. Together they capture the balance every team needs: what you made, how you worked, and how everyone felt doing it.
- People: Did everyone get to contribute and play to their strengths? Did you support each other — and leave energised or drained?
- Product: Did the result meet what you set out to do? What worked well for other participants, and what fell short?
- Procedure: Did your time management, task division and decision-making help or hinder the work?
Steps to use the 3P model:
- Draw a 3P triangle on A3 paper
- Each member evaluates their experience along the questions linked to the 3 Ps, then explains their reasoning
- Discuss what you'd keep and what you'd do differently next time
- Share up to 5 key lessons from the international teamwork experience
Inspiring resources:
- T-kit Training Essentials, EU-CoE Youth Partnership.
Go to the badge and submit evidence covering:
- Your team’s educational resource, in whatever format your team chose to package and deliver it.
- Your completed 3P Triangle (a photo of the A3 sheet, or its digital equivalent), showing each member’s scores.
- A short written summary of up to 5 lessons your team took from the international teamwork experience.
- Optional: your completed Teamwork template, showing the notes your team made on topic, team, needs and format decisions during the preparation and development phases.
This activity and its badge were created by Awero for the Erasmus+ Accreditation training for youth workers. They align with the ETS Competence Model for Youth Workers to Work Internationally in the area of Collaborating in teams — specifically, promoting communication and collaboration amongst team members, ensuring that knowledge, skills, and preferences within the team are shared and communicated, and allocating adequate resources and time to team building.
Gauk veiklos ženkliuką
Teamwork Resource Creator Gauk šį ženkliuką
This badge is awarded for collaboration within international, intercultural teams to research and design educational activities or resources. This badge recognises an international teamwork experience for youth workers.
To earn the badge, the youth worker:
- shared responsibility with the team for the collective outcomes of the lab, from research through to the finished resource
- gathered and integrates input from colleague youth workers, external sources and their own experience into the team’s resource
- co-designed an educational resource or activity — including its learning content, resources and practical exercises — for other youth workers to use
- evaluated the team’s collaboration using the 3P framework (Product, Procedure, People) and identified key lessons from the international teamwork experience
This badge draws on the ETS-YW competence aspects of promoting communication and collaboration amongst team members, ensuring that knowledge and preferences in the team are shared, and allocating adequate resources and time to team building — from the Competence Model for Youth Workers to Work Internationally (ETS).
EQF level: Level 4
Estimated learning effort: at least 8 hours
Užduotys
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Įrodymus patikrino: vienas renginio organizatorius
To get this badge, submit:
- Your team’s educational resource, in whatever format your team chose to package and deliver it.
- Your completed 3P Triangle (a photo of it, or its digital equivalent).
- A short written summary of up to 5 learning outcomes your team took from the international teamwork experience.
Optional: your completed teamwork template document, showing the notes your team made on topic, team, needs and format decisions during the preparation and development phases.
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Organizatoriai
Awero
Cities of Learning Network
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Awero palaiko šią platformą ir plėtoja ją kartu su pagrindinėmis švietimo organizacijomis. Europos Sąjungos programa Erasmus+ dalinai finansavo pirmosios platformos versijos sukūrimą. Susisiekite su mumis support@Awero.org.
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