META EUROPE: MEDIA TRAINING ACROSS EUROPE
supported by the EU-programme Socrates Grundtvig
A European project for Media Competency & Cultural
Empowerment
coordinated by the University of Education Freiburg, GermanyDr. Traudel Günnel
Project-Partners
University of Education Freiburg, Germany (coordinating institution)
Radio Orange Wien, Austria
Radio Robin Hood, Turku, Finland
Free Radio Freudenstadt, Germany
Scientific Advisory Institute of the Youth Aid Organisation of Freiburg, Germany
Civil Radio, Budapest, Hungary
Mediapolis Rom, Italy
University of Lódz, Poland
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
University of Sunderland, UK
META Europe
UNIT 3Teaching The Trainers – learning and teaching skills
UNIT 3 – Teaching The Trainers – learning and teaching skillsMETA Europe
Objectives
By the end of the unit you should be able to: Understand the importance of student - centred, holistic
teaching and learning in the context of community media courses
Design and plan a short teaching session
Use a range of different teaching methods and approaches for specialist interest groups
Experience a ´mini teaching exercise´ and get feedback on your work
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1. Identify Trainingneeds
2. State Aims and
Objectives
3. Design session plan
4. Teach
5. Reflect, evaluate and incorporate
changes
The Training
Cycle
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Training within Community Media (Radio)
• is open to different people with different interests, knowledge, experience and time resources
• offers different topics adapted to the different target groups
examples of themes and topics journalistic know how program design
technical know how• best delivered consistently, over a period of time
Training within Community Media (Radio)
People from different target groups:
• learn to articulate themselves and their interests in public
• learn about the way radio / the media is made
• get a critical view towards the media and the consumption of media products
UNIT 3 – Teaching The Trainers – learning and teaching skillsMETA Europe
UNIT 3 – Teaching The Trainers – learning and teaching skillsMETA Europe
What skills are useful if you want to train within acommunity radio setting?• Interest in and capacity for working with different people
and target groups• Knowledge about and experience with group dynamics /
working successfully within groups• Knowledge about and experience with different ways and
methods of teaching and learning• Specialist knowledge within the wide field of radio
production or broadcast journalism• You may not possess all these-some of the best training
is done collaboratively!
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Examples of different training situations:• One to one: one person observing another: “sitting with
Nellie”• One to one: demonstrating• Small group work-informal • Workshop: one off session about specific topic, practically
oriented• Short course: One day course, series of evening workshops• Community development: training taking place very
informally over an open - ended period of time, within a community setting
• Formal course-accredited by school, college, university or vocational body
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Holistic model of community media training combinesthree elements:
Media Awareness - e.g. knowledge of radiogenres, the role of community radio in society
Media Skills - creative, production, journalism andtechnical skills
Media Identity - raising consciousness in ofunderstanding relationship between identity andmedia and confidence to play a part in representingthat identity through community media
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‘Action-oriented’ media teaching and learning approach:
• is based upon and refers to the learners' life experience
• can be structured so as to enthuse the participants
• takes a learner-centred approach
• supports learning through action
• is product-oriented – e.g. making a radio program
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Approaches to teaching and learning developed byMETA Europe:
• Tandem Training
• Use of ‘Community Tutors’
• Approaches to working with specialist interest group (e.g .women) in community media
Tandem partnerships
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Tandem Training
Definition:• Work in a tandem = training
partnership• Tandem = two
indispensable parts of a whole
Cooperation between inter- professional teams:
Radio trainers and target group trainers to plan andimplement training projects for a target group on anequal basis.
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Working in a tandem implies:
• mutual trust
• mutual goals
• a dynamic interaction
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Training in a Tandem: Prerequisites
Radio trainer: experienced in teaching radio skills creative and technical elements of radio production variety of methods for teaching
Target group trainer:
experienced in developing training programmes, recreational or creative activities for the respective group
familiar with the interests, needs and living circumstances of the target group
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Training in a Tandem: Prerequisites
Cooperation:
Can function well if both partners are fully involved in the planning the project is regarded as a mutual endeavour it is clear who is competent and responsible for
what tasks
there is background information for both, about: the group methods and
aims of radio production work
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Training in a Tandem: examples of methods
1. Preparatory workshop - for radio and target group trainers and others involved in target group (most preparation)
2. Coaching - planning where target group works with experienced radio trainer to plan training (medium level of preparation)
3. Checklist - The trainers forming a tandem use the method as a checklist for their planning (least preparation- recommended for experienced trainers)
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Examples of training in tandem:
1. Female radio station worker in tandem with women’s education worker trainer based in women’s project
2. Radio trainer working with social worker in old people’s home
3. Radio producer working with youth worker in youth club
4. Radio producer working with social worker and refugee representative in a refugee and asylum seeker drop- in centre
See handbook for further details(handbook: “Training in a Tandem – A Planning Guide for Radio
workshops with Special Target Groups” / Mag Anu Pöyskö, Frank Hagen)
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Community tutors
Using recent trainees as role models
"If we can do this - then so can you.“
Example
People who had taken part in a year long
community radio course became tutors for some of the
following year’s introductory course sessions.
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Some advantages of training with community tutors:
Accessibility - being taught by people they knew and felt comfortable with
Enthusiasm - The involvement and personal stories around how and why community tutors became involved in radio was a powerful way of encouraging other people
Empathy - Until a short time ago they had been complete novices themselves- they were ideally placed to remember the hopes and fears they had themselves when first starting their own radio training.
Building on existing skills - The process of designing the training day was a useful way for the community tutors to reflect on their own learning and build new skills.
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Approaches to work with special interest groups incommunity media
• Consider the barriers to training for that particular group• Design specific strategies to involve a specific
target group• Ideas for course content and organisation
Case Study: Working with women in community media (see also handbook)
(handbook: “Training in a Tandem – A Planning Guide for Radioworkshops with Special Target Groups” / Mag Anu Pöyskö, Frank Hagen)
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Barriers to training for women:
•Lack of childcare
•Timing of course
•Competition with other responsibilities
•Lack of confidence
•Lack of role models
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Strategies:
• Women - only courses and tutors
• Working through partnerships (tandems)
• Starting off with ‘taster courses’ and building up to more substantial courses
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Ideas for course content and organisation:
• Involve participants in planning
• Provide support for trainees (childcare, transport, expenses)
• Hands-on training
• Informal settings and atmosphere
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Teaching The Trainers – learning and teaching skills
This unit was created by:
Caroline Mitchell University of Sunderland, UK
Traudel Günnel University of Education Freiburg, Germany
Karin Eble Scientific Advisory Institute of the Youth Aid Organisation of
Freiburg, Germany
Wieslaw Olesky University of Lódz, Poland
Lynn Simpson University of Sunderland, UK