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Welcome to Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training

Welcome to Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training. Welcome. Preopening Opening Welcome. 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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Welcome to Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training

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  1. Welcome toScoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training

  2. Welcome • Preopening • Opening • Welcome

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

  4. Session One: Getting Started

  5. Scouting Welcomes You

  6. The Promise of Scouting

  7. The Promise of Scouting • Why do you think boys join Scouting?

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

  9. 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!

  10. 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

  11. Written Resources • Aims and Methods of Scouting • Handbooks • Scout Handbook • Scoutmaster Handbook • Other BSA literature • Outdoor literature

  12. The Aims of Scouting • Character development • Citizenship training • Mental and physical fitness

  13. The Role of the Scoutmaster

  14. 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

  15. The Qualities of a Scoutmaster • Describe your image of a Scoutmaster

  16. What a Scoutmaster Must Be • A role model • A friend to the boys • An example, wearing the uniform

  17. What a Scoutmaster Must Know • Boys are the leaders • Patrol method • The skills to deliver the Scouting promise • The resources: training, literature

  18. What a Scoutmaster Must Do • Give direction • Provide coaching • Support • Empower • Have fun

  19. Being these things, Knowing these things, Doing those things, are within your abilities

  20. Questions? • … about your role?… about your expectations?

  21. Troop Organization

  22. The Boy Led Troop SM Handbook, Chapter 3

  23. Troop Structure

  24. Troop Structure

  25. The Boy Led Patrol SM Handbook, Chapter 4

  26. Three Kinds of Patrols • Regular patrols • New-Scout patrols • Venture patrols

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

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

  29. The Primary Leadership Body of the Troop • ThePLC

  30. The Organization of Scouting

  31. 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

  32. Break

  33. Troop Meetings

  34. Why have Troop Meetings?

  35. Troop Meetings They need to be: In order to: Motivate boys Strengthen patrols Promote patrol spirit Encourage Scouts to learn and practice Scouting skills Allow Scouts to exercise leadership • 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.

  36. Who Plans and Runsthe Troop Meeting?

  37. Who Plans and Runsthe Troop Meeting?

  38. Troop Meeting Plan Preopening Opening Ceremony Skills Instruction Patrol Meetings Interpatrol Activity Closing After the Meeting

  39. The Troop Meeting • Preopening • Opening–5 minutes • Skills Instruction 15–20 minutes • Patrol Meetings 5–20 minutes • Interpatrol Activity 15–20 minutes • Closing–5 minutes • After the meeting…

  40. Video No. 1: Before the Meeting…

  41. Video No. 2: After the Meeting…

  42. Video No. 3: Teaching the Senior Patrol Leader

  43. Troop Meetings and the Scoutmaster • Support and guide senior patrol leader • The Scoutmaster’s Minute • Review plans for the next meeting

  44. “We Did It Ourselves.”

  45. Break

  46. Scout Sign • A Sign of Respect, not Control

  47. Working With Boy LeadersThe Patrol Method

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

  49. 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 don’t really have a Boy Scout troop” Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting

  50. 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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