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September 12, 2023 · Bamberg, Germany

Wolf’s Success Story: “We helped students succeed in UX/UI Design”

I sat down with Wolf from Leipzig for an online interview, and he told me about his experiences while he was a volunteer teacher at one of our partner organizations, the Redi School of Digital Integration. Wolf has a diploma in Communication Design, and today, he spends most of his professional time in the digital sphere as a User Experience Designer (aka UX Designer).Wolf gave a small group of young international students an online course, a detailed “UX/UI Design Basics” crash course from September to December last year. His students were equally interested in design and IT and were enthusiastic about learning more about the topic without any previous knowledge. He tells me that the course’s initiative was giving students an entry course to become professionals. For the first time, Wolf became a volunteer teacher, and he found the opportunity that presented itself a valuable experience.When teaching and giving homework to the students, he prepared exercises with tools like Figma and customized the course theme to his taste. He made sure to give students practical knowledge as the course’s end goal was to present and use their newly acquired knowledge in the field and to design interfaces and apps that are easy to use. Wolf said he enjoyed teaching because he felt knowledgeable in UX/UI design. He believes that ultimately, he managed everything well, even teaching, and no one was confused - which is a considerable achievement for someone new to teaching.Wolf happily remembered the highlights of his brief volunteer teaching career: “It was good to see students come up with ideas of their own by using their UX knowledge to create something permanent.” Wolf mentioned that it was vital that he could encourage, communicate with, and instruct students on how to do things better and concurrently provide them with knowledge. The communication within the class was always seamless, and students could reach out to him when necessary. Wolf also remembered that internal communication with other teachers was well-managed, and their “Teachers Hub” included essential links and resources for all teachers.Wolf would have improved: "Time management, which is often a challenge in teaching, especially when much practice is done, but it got better with experience.” He added that he could have prepared a more sophisticated presentation with more time. However, Redi School provided all teaching materials; thus, only his input and insights were needed during teaching.After going through the advantages and minor disadvantages of volunteer teaching, Wolf told me that he would personally advise others to volunteer to teach and give workshops. His main advice is to present on a topic that you feel confident in because, in general, what you will do is knowledge-share, which requires expertise, and you have to learn how to approach the audience in the best way possible. So, he suggested that being fully committed to one’s workshop topic is pivotal to giving a successful workshop. In short, “teach the topic you are most passionate about and have experience in, and your students will appreciate and benefit from your knowledge and enthusiasm.”Wolf concluded our talk by saying he would do his course again if he found time. According to him, pride is the byproduct of being a volunteer teacher because, in a way, he contributed and shared his knowledge with students who benefitted from his and Redi School’s toolkit.Taking pride in becoming a volunteer educator is one thing that we are very content about because teaching others and knowledge-sharing make both sides satisfied. Our main priority at TeachSurfing is to ensure quality education for everyone so that students and educators can profit from knowledge transfer. The most outstanding outcome is when educators and students are equally happy.Online interview conducted on the 28th of June 2023 on behalf of TeachSurfing.

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September 20, 2022 · Cologne, Germany

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Hello there, I am Qassem Alhomayyer. Last year, I had the chance to get to know e-VELP, where I started the volunteer educator training. I was already at that time a trainer, but I have never created my own workshop. Whilst doing my training I’ve learned a lot about group dynamics, non-formal education and more. At the end of the training, I finished making my own concept for my first workshop.My workshop addresses men with migration backgrounds in Germany and adresses topics like Masculinity, discrimination and racism. I had the opportunity to offer my workshop within my work as a trainer.In the workshop were men with migration background. In the beginning we got to know each other. Then we talked about masculinity, about which images are spread in society about the "real man" and where such images come from.After that, we discussed about the different roles that people have in different situations and what expectations are attached to the specific roles.In the last step, we exchanged ideas about the topic of racism. Many participants shared their personal stories and experiences.I was very happy that there was a very comfortable atmosphere in the workshop. I was also very touched by the fact that the participants empowered each other when they shared their experiences with racism.That was my experience with implementing my own workshop. I currently feel empowered to offer even more workshops, exchange with people and share my knowledge with others.

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Career Development (Online Workshop for Educators) – how to use digital learning tools in the lessons
July 3, 2022 · Baku, Azerbaijan

Career Development (Online Workshop for Educators) – how to use digital learning tools in the lessons

I organized online workshops for teachers from Barda, Azerbaijan, which were damaged by the war. After this time my school (European Azerbaijan School) made a project named "Seeds of Light". I have organized my trainings within the project. My workshops were about opportunities of using digital learning tools in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry lessons, new techniques, and methods in teaching. Teachers also learned how they can implement these tools to the assessment. As a digital tool, they met with Nearpod, Padlet, TedED, Google Slides, Piktochart, jeopardy LAB, CK 12, etc. Participants were from another region, therefore, they joined online training. Feedback was positive about the workshops. Indeed, I had workshops for teachers and students. Students were more than teachers. 3 Science teachers regularly joined workshops. Maybe it does not seem like a lot, but it is a good result for me because we can not find a lot of people from rural areas who know the English language, they were enthusiastic. Students were approximately 10 in trainings, they were from the same area as the teachers. One of the teachers told that I appreciate your effort, and by sharing your knowledge in this way, you shared useful information for us, and I will definitely implement these digital learning tools in my lessons.

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April 13, 2022 · Limassol, Cyprus

Particularly, the evelp event lunch date.

Particularly, the evelp event lunch date, held online was intuitive and exactly what I'm interested in, an opportunity to share my knowledge and skill to in-demand persons or community.

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NLP Representational Sensory Systems
February 19, 2022 · Romania

NLP Representational Sensory Systems

After a long preparation with E-Velp trainers and many online workshps' meetings with volunteer educator trainers and volunteer educators it was enough for launching this workshop which it was performed with amazing students from ROMANIA online on google meet by the support of HOPE FOR HUMANITY organization which helped alot in collecting the participants and bring us together at accurate time to perform a group workshop about an introduction of Neuro linguistic programing and representational sensory systems which targeted helping the students in manifesting their learning methods by knowing more about their visual-kinaesthetic-auditoery sesnsory skills and features and how it affects their learning and their communicational processes with the surrounding environment. The workshop started with some knowing each other games and short introductions about who we are and who are our host and supporting organizations which were handled by Mrs. Raluca and Mrs. Teodora and Baraa, then we had started our main topic presentation and it was followed with online multiple answers questioning game and online survey's that helps the student to know his sensory system prefference. The students were very interested and they showed big energy and clever answers in the discussions which made me feel very happy and worhy with my performed plan. thank you E-Velp and thank you H4H

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June 21, 2021 · Kullu, India

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March 15, 2021 · Berlin, Germany

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I was a Buddy for refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, that wanted to learn the German language and habits and get prepared for studying/ continue their studies at a German university.

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