Appraiser Professional Development Guidelines

Content

Welcome to these guidelines on how to use the functionalities of AppRaiser for planning your professional development. Here you will find:
Key points behind self-directed learning in the professional development journey
How to use the AppRaiser platform to plan your professional development
Hints and tips on how to navigate your way through the process
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Feel free to check out the guidelines on other functionalities and possibilities of Appraiser and contact the team for further assistance: appraiser@iywt.org.
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﻿Download Appraiser Professional Development Guidelines in PDF﻿

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What are the principles of trainers professional development?

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How to prepare for professional development using the Appraiser platform?

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How to approach professional development?

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Content

Focus on developing your expertise.
Example: If you are an advanced trainer in human rights and conflict transformation, you could focus on further building your expertise around this and focus on developing the competence area ‘Being Civically Engaged’.
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Focus on developing the areas you need to improve.
Example: If you notice from your 360 degree feedback that you have a lack of active listening or integrating learning with digital tools, pick up on those and use them as goals for development.
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Focus on the essentials.
Example: If you are starting as a trainer, you could invest your time developing the foundations of facilitation – how to realise experiential learning, how to plan a learning activity, how to manage the group process, how to conduct needs assessment and evaluation of the learning.
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Find your focus.
If none of the above focus tips fit you, try to customise and discover a strategy that will work for you. Maybe look at the areas you take for granted, the competence areas you find difficult to answer or assess for yourself or respond to the feedback others regularly give you.
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How do you plan realistically?
Choose 1 indicator as a goal to achieve within a specific time frame. Give it a try to see how it works for you.
Choose 3 to 5 indicators as goals and make a long-term plan.
Customise and work with a system that works for you.

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Focus on developing your expertise.
Example: If you are an advanced trainer in human rights and conflict transformation, you could focus on further building your expertise around this and focus on developing the competence area ‘Being Civically Engaged’.
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Focus on developing the areas you need to improve.
Example: If you notice from your 360 degree feedback that you have a lack of active listening or integrating learning with digital tools, pick up on those and use them as goals for development.
﻿
Focus on the essentials.
Example: If you are starting as a trainer, you could invest your time developing the foundations of facilitation – how to realise experiential learning, how to plan a learning activity, how to manage the group process, how to conduct needs assessment and evaluation of the learning.
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Find your focus.
If none of the above focus tips fit you, try to customise and discover a strategy that will work for you. Maybe look at the areas you take for granted, the competence areas you find difficult to answer or assess for yourself or respond to the feedback others regularly give you.
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How do you plan realistically?
Choose 1 indicator as a goal to achieve within a specific time frame. Give it a try to see how it works for you.
Choose 3 to 5 indicators as goals and make a long-term plan.
Customise and work with a system that works for you.

Tasks

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How to use self-assessment results for professional development?

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How to use feedback results for professional development?

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How to create a professional development plan?

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How to use a professional development plan?

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Hints and tips for a smoother professional development implementation

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Skills

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

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#Acknowledging and dealing with unexpected learning moments and outcomes

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#Uses online resources to extend in-person learning

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#Undergoing personal/ professional development through feedback

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#Identifying learning objectives and pursuing them pro-actively

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#Demonstrates an understanding of learning as a continuous process

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

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#Identifying and providing appropriate resources to support individual learning

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#Refers to existing appropriate resources for supporting learning

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#Motivates and supports the implementation of the learning plan

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#Reflects on the learning process

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#Changes learning processes accordingly

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#Organises existing appropriate resources for individual learning purposes

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#Organises resources in a structured way for learning purposes

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

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#Understands the values and mechanisms of feedback

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

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#Gives, receives and integrates feedback in a constructive way

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Completed playlist: 0

Organisers

International Youth Work Trainers Guild

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