Set‐up a team and it’s roles
Training-of-Trainers Leader
The role of a Training-of-Trainers (ToT) Leader can vary depending on the organization, collective, program size, and people availability. Leaders can be either:
Hands-on Facilitators: These leaders directly guide workshops and activities, ensuring participants actively engage with the material.
Facilitator Organizers: They organize the program logistics, select facilitators, and oversee the overall flow, but delegate the direct instruction to others.
Regardless of their approach, ToT Leaders play a crucial role in achieving workshop goals. Here at What The Future Wants we recommend all Leaders prioritize these key objectives:
Inclusive and Participatory Learning: Leaders should ensure educators (participants) grasp the core themes through engaging methods that foster participation from everyone involved.
Empowerment Through Collaboration: Leaders should design activities that encourage peer learning and open discussions, empowering educators to share ideas and build confidence in applying the What The Future Wants key theme concepts.
By focusing on these key objectives, ToT Leaders can create a dynamic learning environment where educators are not just informed, but equipped to shape the future they envision.
Challenges and solutions Leader encounter:
Defining an identity. This is key to promote your ToT workshops, attract participants and recruit experts. Creating a unique identity will help you to build credibility in case you plan to fundraise for it.
Finding a venue. The place where your workshops is going to take place is important. In the quest to find the perfect space, you may want to reach out to organizations such as hackerspaces, libraries, schools, universities, community associations, etc. Once you find an adequate space you can:
Inquire with someone at the organization. Set an appointment to present your ToT Workshops and what you'd like to do in the space.
Prepare an agenda. Organize a presentation about your ToT workshop, including the goals, audience, session's frequency, and possible benefits to the organization. Also, prepare questions about access, security, connectivity and available computers as is dictated by your ToT workshops needs.
Finding and recruiting experts:
Make a list of potential educators, experts and facilitators. Start with your closest groups: friends, family, classmates, etc. and those within your network who will find value in participating in the workshops.
Search on the web. Look for open communities of practice with shared interests in What the Future Wants key themes and join their social media channels, and events, if possible.
Attend tech or education fairs and festivals. In these spaces you can meet people with common backgrounds and projects. Talk to them about your ToT workshops and discuss ways to connect.
Find projects that serve a need in your community. Think of ways your ToT workshops can contribute. This will attract new people interested in supporting the initiative.
Organize a team meeting. Once you have found potential experts and facilitators, invite them to a meeting and brainstorm ToT workshops goals together!
Designing a plan. Think about your participants backgrounds, interests and needs, the resources available (venue, connectivity and equipment), and coincidental schedules for all the actors involved. With that in mind write down a plan. Consider frequency of sessions, goals, and activities.
Hold regular, face-to-face sessions. Once you have established a venue, facilitators, experts, educators and a learning plan, get started! Make sure to keep your members motivated and engaged.
Sharing with the world. Keep posting about your experiences, workshops, accomplishments and lessons learned.
Experts and Facilitators roles
As an essential role, the Experts and Facilitators lead the programmatic workshops agenda and facilitate the What The Future Wants ToT technical topics such as privacy and security online, disinformation, digital well-being, sustainability and technology, persuasive design, etc.
Mapping Local Interests and Issues: Knowing our educator participants is essential for crafting a "What The Future Wants" workshop experience that truly resonates. While the program covers a wide range of topics – online privacy & security, disinformation, digital well-being, sustainability & technology, persuasive design, and more – individual needs may vary. We employ various methods to understand educator interests and challenges. This can include:
Interviews: Directly engaging with educators allows for in-depth exploration of their needs
Surveys: Structured online forms can gather a wider range of responses with clear question options, for example:
Skill & Knowledge Mapping: Ask educators to identify their existing expertise and areas they seek further guidance in related to online privacy & security, disinformation, digital well-being, sustainability & technology, persuasive design, and more.
Student Questions: Understand the specific online privacy & security, disinformation, digital well-being, sustainability & technology, persuasive design, and more concerns raised by young students.
By mapping these local interests and issues, we can tailor the workshop content and activities to directly address the challenges and opportunities relevant to your community. This ensures the training is not only informative but also highly actionable for educators.
Design agenda aligned to educators needs and interests. The workshops agenda can be aligned with the general contents of the What The Future Wants exhibition and the integration of new and transversal key themes identified in the Assessment.
In Brazil, educators incorporate discussions about cyberbullying, online sexuality, and local laws and regulations into their curriculum, aligning with the What The Future Wants initiative's key themes.
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