The original wording of the key competence:
‘Personal, social and learning to learn competence is the ability to reflect upon oneself, effectively manage time and information, work with others in a constructive way, remain resilient and manage one’s own learning and career. It includes the ability to cope with uncertainty and complexity, learn to learn, support one’s physical and emotional well-being, to maintain physical and mental health, and to be able to lead a health-conscious, future-oriented life, empathize and manage conflict in an inclusive and supportive context.’
Suggestions for use in European youth programmes:
Taking part in a European Project might have a big impact on -especially younger- participants´ life. Being together with other people form (a) different countr(y)ies is an intensive new situation where they are confronted with their own attitudes and behaviour. Reflecting on oneself, relations to others and the role in a group is an essential part of those kind of projects. Working together with others in a meaningful and constructive way supports personal development.
Learning to learn competence is about how the participants are aware of and how they take responsibility for their own learning. European projects offer various possibilities for young people to choose their own learning paths and to decide what they want to get out of those experiences.
It’s about setting learning aims and objectives, reflecting upon own learning strengths and weaknesses and the ways to learn best, organizing own learning, self-motivation, being aware of being a learner, taking responsibility for own development, assessing and monitoring the progress, collecting outcomes and reporting changes.
Questions that can help participants to reflect:
- What are things you are really good in?
- What do you like when you work together with other people?
- What do you find challenging when working with other people?
- What do you want to find out about yourself while working with others?
- What was your personal motivation to participate in this project?
- What were the most important things you got out of this project?
- What are the things you learnt in your life you are most proud of?
- How do you learn best? What motivates you?
- How did you plan your learning aims and objectives? To what extent have you reached them?
- Did you learn things that you did not plan or expect to learn? Which?
- Who and what were supportive for your learning? What kind of assistance did you need to improve yourself?
- What did you discover about yourself?
- What else would you like to improve?