Introduction to Module Training in Life Skills.pptx
The new Modular Training Course in Learning Skills is on!
The new Modular Training Course in Learning Skills is on!
Modular Training Course has been developed under the project “SoSocial – Socialization of risk groups through education” and it is based on a framework, defining the skills, need by the target groups - adult learners (elderly people with disabilities, representatives of minorities, migrants and others).
The Course consist of 6 separate modules, each providing to the participant different topic of life skills:
Module 1 – Decision-making
Module 2 – Community living
Module 3 – Personal awareness and management
Module 4 – Time management
Module 5 – Interview and Presentation Skills
Module 6 – Healthy Habits and Environmental Skills
You can also download the educational materials from here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1rrmn54b6_KlBUANebJ95NO6gyIbk3xjH
A - Module 1 - Decision-making.pptx
Modular Training Course in Life Skills
Module 1 - Decision-making
What does decision-making mean?
Decision-making is a process of selecting the best among the different alternatives. It is the act of making a choice. There are so many alternatives found in the organization and departments. Decision-making is defined as the selection of choice of one best alternative.
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A - Module 2 - Community Living.pptx
Modular Training Course in Life Skills
Module 2 - Community living
The module covers topics related to effective communication, conflict resolution and empathy that are so important for quality community life.
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A - Module 3 - Personal Awareness & Personal Management.pptx
Modular Training Course in Life Skills
Module 3 - Personal Awareness and Personal Management
Being self-aware is all about having an understanding of your own thoughts, feelings, values, beliefs, and actions. It means that you understand who you are, what you want, how you feel, and why you do the things that you do.
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A - Module 4 - Time management and Personal Effectiveness.pptx
Modular Training Course in Life Skills
Module 4 - Time Management and Personal Effectiveness
What is time management?
Time management is the art of effectively planning your time. It allows you to complete the activities and tasks efficiently and productively you need to in the appropriate amount of time.
Time management also involves prioritizing your to-do list so that you complete urgent or important tasks before others. This helps to avoid missing important deadlines or rushing through important tasks.
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A - Module 5 - Interview and Presentation Skills.pptx
Modular Training Course in Life Skills
Module 5 - Interview and Presentation Skills
The module includes information aimed at increasing knowledge and skills to prepare for and successfully present an interview, as well as guidance and useful tips on developing and presenting information.
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A - Module 6 - Healthy Habits & Green Environmental Skills.pptx
Modular Training Course in Life Skills
Module 6 - Healthy Habits and Green Environmental Skills
The module introduces two important contemporary topics related to healthy living and green skills.
Healthy habits are a combination of physical, mental, and emotional practices that contribute to overall wellbeing. This includes habits related to nutrition, exercise, sleep, mental health, and social connections. Consistently practicing these behaviors can benefit long-term health and prevent chronic diseases.
Green skills include technical knowledge, expertise and abilities that enable the effective use of green technologies and processes in professional settings. They draw on a range of knowledge, values, and attitudes to facilitate environmentally sustainable decision-making at work and in life.
B - Introduction to Modular Training in Learning Skills.pptx
Happy to present the newly developed teaching materials for the Modular Training Course in Learning Skills!
Happy to present the newly developed teaching materials for the Modular Training Course in Learning Skills!
The Modular Training Course in Learning Skills has been developed under the project “SoSocial – Socialization of risk groups through education” and it is based on a framework, defining the skills, need by the target groups - adult learners (elderly people with disabilities, representatives of minorities, migrants and others).
The Course consist of 6 separate modules, each providing to the participant different topic of life skills:
Module 1 – Preparing to learn
Module 2 – How to learn effectively
Module 3 – Monitoring the learning process
You can also download the educational materials from here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1t99GpLqF3-YSXWOyudFd34hslW7tNXRH
B - LEARNING SKILLS Module 1 Preparing to learn.pptx
Learning Skills - Why preparation is important?
Preparation is the first and essential step of any activity, including learning.
Preparation helps us reach our potential as learners. It gives us greater control over our learning by making us better prepared to react to obstacles as well as opportunities that may arise.
Knowing that we are well prepared increases our self-confidence and chances of success.
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B - LEARNING SKILLS Module 2 How to learn effectively.pptx
Learning Skills - Why knowing how to learn is important?
Learning does not only help you gain new skills, but it is also an important skill itself.
Knowing how to learn allows you to gather, process and organize information more efficiently. This means you can learn more in less time and retain more information. It also improves your ability to learn despite having a busy daily schedule.
Knowing how to learn removes many obstacles that learners often encounter, like not knowing how to take advantage of their learning styles or how to evaluate their learning progress and results.
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B - LEARNING SKILLS module 3 Monitoring the learning process.pptx
Learning Skills - Why monitoring of the learning process is important?
Like any other process, (self-directed) learning can be examined and improved.
You can make your learning more efficient and enjoyable by monitoring it.
Monitoring means to observe yourself as a learner, evaluate your progress and make improvements and adjustments when problems arise.
Monitoring includes self-evaluation and reflection, identification and removal of obstacles that hinder learning and maintaining motivation through.
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SoSocial has been funded with support from the European Commission (2022-2-BG01-KA210-ADU-000095493, financed by the Erasmus+).The views expressed in this website are those of the authors only, the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
SoSocial - Socialization of risk groups through education
SoSocial - Socialization of risk groups through education
The project was formulated in the implementation of the Horizontal Priority "Inclusion and diversity in all areas of education, youth and sports" and is aimed at social inclusion, by creating opportunities for training, including the possibility of virtual and blended learning, and ensuring the access of people with fewer opportunities, including people with disabilities, members of minorities and migrants, other people facing socio-economic difficulties and / or discrimination.
The activities are aiming to contribute to the achievement of the priorities of Erasmus+ in the field of adult education, as follows:
1) Improving the availability of high-quality, flexible educational opportunities for adults - project activities are aimed at creating and developing flexible learning offers adapted that the learning needs of adults from risk groups in the community (including people with disabilities, people leaving institutional care, minorities, migrants, and others), by developing training opportunities, including introducing virtual and blended learning.
2) Creating pathways that increase skills, improve accessibility, and increase the spread of adult education - activities are aimed at new opportunities for adult education, including low-skilled, disabled and others. New methods of teaching, interpretation, digital content, and presentation of materials will be introduced, aiming that increase knowledge and skills.
The expected results of achieving the goals will include:
- developed training courses, with flexible and adapted content related that the needs of the specific target group.
- created opportunities for training, including self-training, aimed at including the risk groups in the community.
- ensuring access of the target groups that virtual and mixed learning, by publishing the training materials in an accessible Internet environment.
The implementation of the project will have added value by building the capacity of partner organizations that participate in cross-border cooperation and will contribute that the expansion of partner networks.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission – Contract 2022-2-BG01-KA210-ADU-000095493, financed by the Erasmus+. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
The project activities are related to the project objectives. They include:
Activity 1 - Project management and implementation
Activity 2 - Conducting analysis among target groups of specific training needs and selection of methods and tools
Activity 3 - Development of curricula and training materials for integrated training in life skills
Activity 4 - Development of curricula and training materials for training in skills for learning
Activity 5 - Conducting a workshop that test the trainings
Activity 6 - Dissemination of project results
Facebook page: Project: SoSocial - Socialization of risk groups through education
E-mail: sosocial-project@abv.bg
Join our survey on the opinion of the adult educators
Join our survey on the opinion of the adult educators
Share your opinion about the educational needs and attitudes on the topics of life skills and learning skills
Share your opinion about the educational needs and attitudes on the topics of life skills and learning skills
Experts from the Association "Social Support and Information" (Bulgaria) and the Society "DISORA" took part in the first transnational meeting of the project "SoSocial - Socialization of risk groups through education2022-2-BG01-KA210-ADU-000095493. The meeting take place in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria on 6-7th of April 2023.
Discussions during the meeting included the implementation of the adult training needs analysis activities and the results obtained from the translated surveys with adult learners and trainers. Upcoming project activities related to the preparation of training materials were discussed, as well as ways to promote the project and disseminate its results.
SoSocial National Report Bulgaria - EN.pdf
National Report - Bulgaria
The National Report of an analysis conducted among target groups of specific educational needs and selection of educational methods and tools (Bulgaria) was conducted among 34 people (age 18-65 years), who represent members of the target group - people with disabilities, elderly people, representatives of minority groups and migrants and to 14 people, who represent members of the target group - adult educators, social workers, and psychologists, working with disadvantaged people.
Check the data and the results of it.
SoSocial National Report Slovenia - EN.pdf
National Report - Slovenia
The National Report of an analysis conducted among target groups of specific educational needs and selection of educational methods and tools (Slovenia) was conducted among 20 people (age 18-65 years), who represent members of the target group - people with disabilities, elderly people, representatives of minority groups and migrants and to 10 people, who represent members of the target group - adult educators, social workers, and psychologists, working with disadvantaged people.
Check the data and the results of it.
Second Transnational Project Meeting of the project experts in Maribor, Slovenia
Second Transnational Project Meeting of the project experts in Maribor, Slovenia
The experts of SoSocial Project met at Maribor, Slovenia for a second transnational project meeting. At the final phase of the project, the dissemination activities were discussed, the final steps for a project popularization were suggested.
During the meeting, the possibilities of holding multiplication events and publishing learning materials or information with links to them on different platforms related to adult learning in Bulgaria and Slovenia were discussed.
Workshop in Ihtiman, Bulgaria
Workshop in Ihtiman, Bulgaria
During the workshops (workshop events), the project teams of Association for Social Support and Information and Association DISORA conducted workshops to pilot the learning materials that were aimed at supporting the target groups.
The workshops included 2 events with 13 trainers in Bulgaria and 1 event in Slovenia with 11 trainers who work with vulnerable groups in the community (elderly people with disabilities, people leaving institutional care, representatives of minorities, migrants and others).
The workshops were delivered by experts from the partners as one-day events, in person or online. The aim was to get feedback from the target groups (adult educators) on the needs to improve the programmes and learning materials.
The information from the feedback (questionnaires) was aggregated at project level by the partners in order to maximize the relevance and usefulness of the trainings in terms of:
- Relevance of the training material to the specificities of the target groups;
- Adequacy of the digital techniques used in the trainings;
- Assessment of the flexibility of the programme and teaching methods;
- Evaluation of self-assessment tests and evaluation of material acquisition.
A6 - Multiplication event presentation SoSocial EN.pptx
FINAL MULTIPLIER EVENTS FOR PROJECT RESULTS DISSEMINATION
FINAL MULTIPLIER EVENTS FOR PROJECT RESULTS DISSEMINATION
Excited to share the final results with our target groups!
Two events with adult educators were conducted in Slovenia and 3 multiplier events took place in Bulgaria. Project objectives, results and activities were presented and discussed.
The participants in the events got acquainted with the curricula and training materials for the two modular trainings, developed for specific groups - еlderly people with disabilities, people leaving institutional care, representatives of minorities, migrants and others.
The participants were presented with the website of the prefect, where detailed information about the project and its stages of implementation is published. The website provides access to the project deliverables - modular training materials in digital version, which are free to download and use for training purposes.
