Welcome to Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training

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Welcome toScoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster
Leader Specific Training
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Welcome

• Preopening
• Opening
• Welcome

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Introductions

• We were new once too!
• briefly introduce your patrol member
• Give name, unit, position, district
• One fun (Scouting related) fact
• Scout handshake

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Session One Getting Started
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Scouting Welcomes You
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The Promise of Scouting
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The Promise of Scouting

• Why do you think boys join Scouting?

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Deliver the Promise

• To deliver the Promise of Scouting, there are
  things you must
• Know
• Be
• Do

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Know This

• Be confident you can do this
• Abundant resources already exist
• You are part of a supportive team
• Here are the steps to confidence
• Show up
• Build on your strengths
• Use existing resources
• Ask!

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Training Overview

• Online Fast Start, This Is Scouting
• Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Training
• Getting Started
• Lighting the Fire
• Keeping It Going
• Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills

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Written Resources

• Aims and Methods of Scouting
• Handbooks
• Scout Handbook
• Scoutmaster Handbook
• Other BSA literature
• Outdoor literature

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The Aims of Scouting

• Character development
• Citizenship training
• Mental and physical fitness

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The Role of the Scoutmaster
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What comes first?

• Scoutmaster Training
• Getting started The role of a SM in a Boy-Led
  troop
• Lighting the fire Program
• Keeping it going Planning and administration
• Expectations

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The Qualities of a Scoutmaster

• Describe your image of a Scoutmaster

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What a Scoutmaster Must Be

• A role model
• A friend to the boys
• An example, wearing the uniform

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What a Scoutmaster Must Know

• Boys are the leaders
• Patrol method
• The skills to deliver the Scouting promise
• The resources training, literature

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What a Scoutmaster Must Do

• Give direction
• Provide coaching
• Support
• Empower
• Have fun

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Being these things, Knowing these things, Doing
those things, are within your abilities
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Questions?

• about your role? about your expectations?

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Troop Organization
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The Boy Led Troop

• SM Handbook, Chapter 3

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Troop Structure
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Troop Structure
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The Boy Led Patrol

• SM Handbook, Chapter 4

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Three Kinds of Patrols

• Regular patrols
• New-Scout patrols
• Venture patrols

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Patrol Leaders

• Elected
• Responsible for patrol activities
• Represent the patrol a the PLC
• APL and other positions are appointed

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The Leader of the Troop

• The SPL
• Elected by all youth members of the troop.
• Not in a patrol
• Appoints his ASPLs staff

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The Primary Leadership Body of the Troop

• ThePLC

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The Organization of Scouting
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Troop Organization Summary

• The Troop is a framework for everyone to get the
  most out of the program
• Boys get opportunities to learn
• Variety of challenges to match interest and
  development
• Deliver the Promise of Scouting
• Driving Force BLTUPM

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Break
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Troop Meetings
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Why have Troop Meetings?
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Troop Meetings

• They need to be

• In order to

• To be fast-paced, interesting, and varied.
• To lead toward exciting troop activities in the
  outdoors.
• To be the glue that holds a troop together.
• and more.

• Motivate boys
• Strengthen patrols
• Promote patrol spirit
• Encourage Scouts to learn and practice Scouting
  skills
• Allow Scouts to exercise leadership

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Who Plans and Runsthe Troop Meeting?
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Who Plans and Runsthe Troop Meeting?
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Troop Meeting Plan

• Preopening
• Opening Ceremony
• Skills Instruction
• Patrol Meetings
• Interpatrol Activity
• Closing
• After the Meeting

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The Troop Meeting

• Preopening
• Opening5 minutes
• Skills Instruction 1520 minutes
• Patrol Meetings 520 minutes
• Interpatrol Activity 1520 minutes
• Closing5 minutes
• After the meeting

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Video No. 1 Before the Meeting
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Video No. 2 After the Meeting
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Video No. 3 Teaching the Senior Patrol Leader
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Troop Meetings and the Scoutmaster

• Support and guide senior patrol leader
• The Scoutmasters Minute
• Review plans for the next meeting

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We Did It Ourselves.
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Break
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Scout Sign

• A Sign of Respect, not Control

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Working With Boy LeadersThe Patrol Method
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Question

• When it comes to working with boys, what are
  your greatest concerns?

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The Patrol Method

• The patrol method is not a way to operate a Boy
  Scout troop, it is the only way. Unless the
  patrol method is in operation you dont really
  have a Boy Scout troop
• Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting

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Keys to Troop Leadership

• Use the Patrol Method
• Be a good listener
• Provide positive reinforcement
• Match leadership styles to the needs of your
  Scouts
• Never do anything a boy can do B-P

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Setting The Example

• You set the tone
• You support and inspire
• You trust them with positions of leadership
• The object of the patrol method is not so much
  saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give
  responsibility to the boy B-P

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Setting High Standards

• Steer away from

• Every boy should feel

• Vulgarity
• Disrespect
• Bullying
• Inappropriate teasing

• Welcome
• Respect
• Secure

Scouting is a game for boys under the
leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
B-P
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Use a Simple Powerful Tool

• Listen
• You care about the boy
• Their thoughts and ideas have weight
• Youre opening lines of communication
• It will lead to fresh ways of doing things
• You need information about each boy
• Seek first to understand then to be
  understood Covey

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What Scouting Can Provide a Boy

• Sense of belonging
• Achievement and recognition
• Self-esteem
• Self-confidence

• Self-discipline
• Self-reliance
• Healthy interaction
• Experience of teamwork

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Patrol Leaders Council
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The Patrol Leaders Council

• Planning troop meetings
• Outdoor activities

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The Leading EDGE

• Explaining
• Demonstrating
• Guiding
• Enabling

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Video No. 4 Patrol Leaders Council
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Patrol Leaders Handbook
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Video No. 5 Activity Review
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Group Activity
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Patrol Activity

• Patrol Leaders, come to the Senior Patrol Leader

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• 1. a) At troop meetings, do the patrol leaders
  have all the information and plans, or
• b) Do I keep a lot of the information to
  myself?
• 2. a) Before our camping trips, do the patrols
  usually plan their own menus and buy their own
  food, or
• b) Does someone usually do it for them?
• 3. a) Do patrols elect their own leaders, or
• b) Do I select them to make sure the right
  person is chosen.
• 4. a) Do our troop meetings do anything to make
  patrols stronger, or
• b) Do they have little effect on patrols one
  way or the other?
• 5. a) Do I spend time coaching my senior patrol
  leader, or
• b) Am I more likely just to marvel at his
  inability to do things?
• 6. a) Does the troop leaders' council do most of
  the program planning, or
• b) Do I do most of it myself?
• 7. a) Do I have time for individual boys, or
• b) Am I usually too busy?
• 8. a) Am I mostly in the background at troop
  meetings, or
• b) Do I run most of the meetings?
• 9. a) Does Scouting in my troop consist of some
  troop and some patrol activities and meetings, or
• b) Mostly troop activities and meetings?
• 10. a) Do I get more kick out of watching boys
  lead activities, or

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Summary
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Session One Summary

• Role of a Scoutmaster
• Troop organization
• Troop meetings
• Using the four styles of leadership
• The patrol leaders council

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• You can deliver the promise of Scouting!
• What will your action plan be?