Presentation for guidance counselors in the European network Euroguidance.

1. Recognise learning
a method for
communication and reflection

2. Terese Raymond terese@aprendi.se @terejs
Euroguidance * euroguidance.se
EVS * evstrainings.se
Teacherhack * teacherhack.com
ELD * eldkompetens.se
Aprendi * aprendi.se

3. Experience
Learning
Description

4. Experience Experience = Competence
Learning Doing + Reflecting = Learning
Description ”Competence Words”

5. History
ELD was created at the The Swedish Centre for
International Youth Exchange.
Funded by the Swedish Board for National Youth
Affairs (2006).

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ELD Process
Documentation
Introduction
ELD talks
Excercises

7. Material
http://eldkompetens.se/metodmaterial

9. Letter of Competence

10. What is competence?
As defined in the European Training
Strategy (Salto Youth 2013)
“Competences consist of an overall
system of values, attitudes and beliefs as
well as skills and knowledge, which can
be put into practice to manage diverse
complex situations and tasks
successfully. Self-confidence, motivation
and well-being are important pre-
requisites for a person to be able to act
out his/her developed competences.“

11. What is competence?
As defined in the EQF (European
Qualification Framework)
“Competence means the proven ability to
use knowledge, skills and personal,
social and/or methodological abilities in
work or study situations and in
professional and personal development.
In the context of the EQF, competence is
described in terms of responsibility and
autonomy.”
Source: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/5530_en.pdf - page 52

12. Competence depend on the context/situation

13. When am I competent?

14. Competence Inventory
Think of a situation from
your work life when you do
something that you enjoy
doing.
A situation that makes you
feel good.
Tell one person about your
situation and work together
finding three words that
describes your actions from
the List of Competence.

15. Situations
Utmanande * Challenging
Aha-upplevelser * Special moments
Vändpunkter * Turning points
Strategiska * Strategic
Roliga * Funny

16. How when can the participants document?

17. ”I would have learned the same, I
guess, but I wouldn’t have known it.”

18. ”Det värsta som kan
hända är att du får
en ELD-
situation!”
”The worst thing
that might happen
is that you get an
ELD-situation!”

19. How to start an ELD pilot
• Select a few participants
• Introduce ELD (highlight self-assessment
and be transparent with the pilot status)
• Co-design the ELD process with
participants
• Select ”low hanging fruit” tools for
documentation
• Schedule and document ELD talks
• Create template for final Letter of
Competence
• Create personal Letter of Competence
• together with participant

20. Visualize Learning Outcomes
Imagine the best possible
Letter of Competence
- or other proof of learning -
after the project
Work together

21. Today, young people’s
learning takes place in many
different sectors.
Open Badges is a system for
connecting different learning
settings and create pathways
to jobs.

22. “Further work is also necessary to analyse how new
transparency tools such as ‘open badges’ created by new
certification processes on digital learning should be
integrated in/a complement to Europass.”
COM 2013:899 Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
Evaluation of the Europass initiative Second evaluation of the Decision of the European
Parliament and the Council on a single Community framework for the transparency of
qualifications and competences (Europass)

23. Mozilla Official
http://openbadges.org
An example of how a project has built a pathway of Open Badges
http://www.chicagosummeroflearning.org/
Open Badges Wiki
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
A free community for creating, earning and issuing badges:
https://credly.com/
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/02/12/how-were-making-education-
more-like-the-web/

24. @terejs
terese@apendi.se
eldkompetens.se
+46 76 000 13 15