QUALITY CRITERIA
Youth participation and involvement of young people
What do you have to keep in mind in the process of involvement of young people:
- to give people knowledge about idea and all the projects elements, to clarification of ideas,
- give opportunity to choose the way they want to work (ex. Promotion),
- let they know the aims for all the task and resources they have,
- sharing the work and responsibilities,
- asking opinion,
- setting the rules,
- trust,
- to find something in common,
- to find and present different methods to achieve the goals,
- youth decision,
- explore possible weakness & strengths,
- to convince about personal abilities,
- to convince that project can be useful challenge,
Involvement of youth – methods and forms:
PREPARATION:
- brainstorm,
- selection from prepared topics,
- together write the form,
IMPLEMENTATION:
- special time (gap in the programme) for a special interests groups organized by youth,
- to choose together time, place and topics of the activities,
- exhibition of the material products of youth work: drawing, painting, photos,
- meeting related to finances during the implementation,
- to give tasks related to money,
- energizers, games, workshops provided by youth.
EVALUATION
- a spy game,
- competition,
- team ABC – questions about the exchange,
- photo exhibition (gallery); to show a exchange day by day and remind all the things happened,
- report fulfilling; what to put in the report – brain storm,
- evaluation forms made by them,
- articles, web-sides,
- work on the plan, schedule of the exchange (youth),
- “the box” with the beginning like…..
a) I liked….
b) I didn’t like…
c) The most interesting thing to me…
d) I still would like to…
e) I have learnt …
f) I was surprised …..
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