Health, Safety and Environment - International Labour Organization

Manual 1:AN EDUCATOR’S GUIDEFurther information: This provides you and the participants with ideason where you can find further information on selected topics.Key principlesSome of the key principles upon which this series of ILO-IUF Manuals arebased include:learning by doing, participants learn far more by doing somethingthemselvescollective work, unions work best by involving everyone and poolingtalents and skills. Work in small groups with regular reporting back,makes this possible on a courseaction at work, close links between participants and their members willhelp them to build a working relationship. Members need to be aware ofwhat participants are doing on the course and how it will benefit themwork on real problems, hazards and problems faced by participants onthe course are the best starting point to help everyone understand whatis involved and what action to takeworkplace activities, can help to ensure that the course is relevant andbased upon the actual situations that the participants are facing in theworkplaceactivities, are specific tasks helping course participants to learn, and tobe relevant to the situation they face at workcourse reviews, throughout any course there should be formal andinformal ways of reviewing work done, and giving educators andparticipants the opportunity to adjust the course programme to meetidentified prioritiescourse file, during the course participants should have a chance to puttogether a file of materials which will be useful in the workplace afterthe course has finished An educator’s roleAn educator’s role includes: being aware of group dynamics and promoting equal participationparticularly in terms of gender helping to organise the work, by suggesting tasks and ways of working helping participants to agree course guidelines ensuring that different opinions are respected organising resources, including basic information, publications, andcopying facilities (where possible), to help the course work adapting course materials to suit the needs of the participants giving advice and support10 Health, Safety and EnvironmentA Series of Trade Union EducationManuals for Agricultural Workers