Competence development platform for trainers

AppRaiser platform offers free solutions for professional development, which includes self-assessment and feedback from participants, colleagues and organisers. The platform is adapted to the needs and practices of trainers in the youth field.

Assess your competences

Create your trainer profile and define your core competences. Assess your performance based on the ETS Competence Model for Trainers. Gather evidence that supports your professionalism.

Easily collect feedback

List your training events and invite participants, colleagues and organisers to give feedback. Access and review the feedback about your competences. Obtain visual data based on the feedback you received.

Take charge of your professional development

Identify areas for further professional development Set learning goals and organise resources accordingly Follow your learning progress with the support of your colleague trainers

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Benefits of using Appraiser platform

Self-assessment

Self-checkin and monitoring process
Brings long-term learning perspective
Enables self-recognition of gained competences
Develops self-reflective practice
Self-knowledge and self-understanding
Promotes responsibility

External feedback

Compliments and extends self-assessment
Provides external perspective on competences
Involves various stakeholders
Creates the 360 degree perspective
Indicates strenghs and development needs

Professional development

Supports self-directed learning
Maps out, identifies and improves practice
Encourages to take responsibility for learning
Gives freedom to choose focus and intended outcomes
Creates a structure for planning learning
Acknowledge a range of possibilities

Peer support

Offers structure for peer support
Helps in interpreting assessment results
Guides professional development

Featured Skills

#Undergoing personal/ professional development through feedback

#Assessing one’s own learning achievements and competences

#Shows willingness to learn from others, even those who might hold different values and worldviews

#Acknowledging and dealing with unexpected learning moments and outcomes

#Identifying learning objectives and pursuing them pro-actively

#Is comfortable with exploring and experimenting digital technologies and tools

#Applies appropriate methods and digital tools for assessment and self-assessment of their own learning achievements

#Understands the values and mechanisms of feedback

#Uses online resources to extend in-person learning

#Reflects on the learning process

#Demonstrates an understanding of learning as a continuous process

#Identifying and providing appropriate resources to support individual learning

#Understands how learning can be organised in an effective and meaningful way and diverse learning environments, including online

#Applies the concept of competence in a learning context

#Organises existing appropriate resources for individual learning purposes

#Organises resources in a structured way for learning purposes

#Integrates feedback and maintains or recovers their own emotional balance afterwards

#Motivates and supports the implementation of the learning plan

#Gives, receives and integrates feedback in a constructive way

#Refers to existing appropriate resources for supporting learning

#Trains focus on planned learning objectives while remaining open to incorporating unplanned ones

#Refers to various assessment and self-assessment principles and methods

#Demonstrates an understanding of the concept of competence in a learning context

#Asks for feedback

#Changes learning processes accordingly

#Regularly critically reflects on own values and motivations and how they impact behaviours

#Identifies analog and/or digital methods and their sources, suitable for different environments and situations

#Encourages curiosity about their own learning process

#Explicitly encourages and enables learners to take responsibility for their own learning process

#Pays special attention to attitudes and values when self-assessing and planning further development

#Enables participants to be creative and think out of the box

#Selecting, adapting or creating appropriate methods

#Promoting creativity, problem-solving and 'out-of-the-box' thinking

#Identifies and prevents risks connected to collecting and sharing data

#Refers to relevant digital technologies, tools and related uses in non-formal learning settings

#Choose and designing appropriate methods for collecting, interpreting and disseminating information (data, resources, findings, etc.)

#Dares to improvise and experiment and to acknowledge the importance of this

#Facilitates problem solving

#Knows about power structures behind digital technologies and connected issues as datification, etc

#Support learners in identifying and meeting their learning needs and overcoming any barriers

#Uses digital technologies to create / foster participation

#Stimulating active participation and motivating and empowering learners

#Considers the political implications and the power structures in the use of digital media and technology

#Is aware of fake news issues, how to recognise, address and contrast them

#Identifies and recommends digital learning tools and resources to fulfil learners needs

#Is aware of the regulations and elaborates a safety plan, incorporating online privacy procedures and online behavioural recommendations when needed

#Critically assesses the sources of information

#Connecting [youth] policies and educational programmes

#Identifies the digital literacy level of participants and adjusts activities accordingly

#Demonstrates understanding of the importance of values and how to design opportunities for value-based learning in a learning process

Appraiser platform stewards

The International Youth Work Trainers Guild is behind creation of this platform. We promote and support trainers in finding tools and peer support for your competence assessment and development..

Appraiser partners

Appraiser platform is created and promoted by international partnership. We endorse and commit to quality of training in the youth field.

Badgecraft hosts 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@badgecraft.eu.

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