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Aims and Methods of Scouting

Aims and Methods of Scouting. Learning Objectives. Participants will be able to - understand the underlying principles of Scouting realize how the aims of Scouting apply to Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, and Venturing

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Aims and Methods of Scouting

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  1. Aims and Methods of Scouting

  2. Learning Objectives Participants will be able to - • understand the underlying principles of Scouting • realize how the aims of Scouting apply to Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, and Venturing • relate the aims of Scouting to their own lives and BSA responsibilities

  3. An Exercise • Think about young people you know currently in Scouting • Imagine them 10 years from now (Where will they be? What will they be doing?) • Write down on the back of the Aims of Scouting work sheet some qualities they may possess that they gained from their Scouting experience

  4. Could The Qualities Include • self-motivation • high expectations • focus • interest in the outdoors • technical skills • leadership ability • citizenship

  5. Discuss: What Is Scouting? • Baden-Powell called it “a game with a purpose” • “Purpose” = Aims of Scouting: to help youth • become better people • fully realize their potential • “Game” = Methods of Scouting: eg, service, outdoor adventure, meetings, advancement

  6. Specific Aims • Character Development: personal qualities, values, and outlook • Citizenship Training: living and working among others with rules based on the common good • Mental and Physical Fitness

  7. Specific Methods

  8. Why Similar, Yet Different, Methods? • Learn and experience in age-appropriate ways • Opportunities for increasing responsibilities and leadership development • Allow youth to progress from dependence on adults for direction to independence

  9. The Foundation:Instilling the Ideals • Underlying the “Aims and Methods of Scouting” is a foundation of values – the ideals • Cub Scout Promise and Law of the Pack • Boy Scout Oath and Boy Scout Law • Varsity Scout Oath • Venturing Oath

  10. An Exercise • List on your work sheet specific ways that the BSA program has brought to life the aims, ideals, and methods of Scouting in the various programs, especially your own • Discuss how do your ideas about aims, values, and methods relate back to youth • in the program • not in the program

  11. Do You / Can You . . . • understand the underlying principles of Scouting? • realize how the aims of Scouting apply to Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, and Venturing? • relate the aims of Scouting to your own life and BSA responsibilities?

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