Boy Scouts - A Guide to Building & Running a Scout Troop

Webelos Scouts is a year-round family- and home-centered program that develops ethical decision-making skills for fourth- and fifth-grade or year-old boys. A year-round program for boys 11 through 17 designed to achieve the aims of Scouting through a vigorous outdoor program and peer group leadership with the counsel of an adult Scoutmaster. Boys also may become Boy Scouts if they have earned the Cub Scouting Arrow of Light Award and are at least 10 years old or have completed the fifth grade and are at least 10 years old. An active, exciting, year-round program for young men 14 through 17 built around five program fields of emphasis: A year-round program for young men and women who are 13 and have completed the eighth grade through 20 years of age to provide positive experiences through exciting and meaningful youth-run activities that help them pursue their special interests, grow by teaching others, and develop leadership skills.

They manage these units and control the program of activities to support the goals and objectives of the chartered organizations. When community organizations establish a new unit, they must take these two important actions to ensure a quality Scouting program: If your organization is interested in starting a Scouting unit, please contact the Council at Training Adult Cub Training A. The Stakes were High. How to write a great review. The review must be at least 50 characters long. The title should be at least 4 characters long.

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You've successfully reported this review. We appreciate your feedback. April 16, Imprint: Position-specific training is provided, including unit committee members, Den Leaders, Cubmasters, Scoutmasters, Unit Commissioners, and others. Skill-specific training is also available to gain knowledge in outdoors skills including camping, hiking, first aid, Leave No Trace, swim safety, climbing safety, hazardous weather, and other skills.

The local council can offer high-adventure training to help prepare adults to conduct outdoor activities. Some councils use Powder Horn program to do this. All Wood Badge graduates have been recognized since the program's inception with a leather thong decorated with two beads. Individuals who take part on staff are eligible to wear three beads, while Course Directors are recognized with four beads. These beads were presented to the first Wood Badge participants by Baden-Powell , who obtained them while on a military campaign in Zululand , from a Zulu king named Dinizulu.

Boys 10 to 18 are offered a variety of training programs. Boy Scout troop Scoutmasters are encouraged to offer Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops , a unit level three-hour training session for all new boy leaders. The first program is designed to be run as-needed in a troop setting.

Leadership training (Boy Scouts of America)

The Scoutmaster and senior patrol leader will conduct this three-hour training whenever there are new Scouts or there has been a shift in leadership positions within the patrol or the troop. This course is an in-depth training program covering a variety of leadership ideas and skills. It is designed to simulate a month in the life of a Boy Scout unit. It uses fun and hands-on learning sessions to teach leadership skills. The Scouts learn about service-based leadership as they undertake a patrol quest for the meaning of leadership. Six courses were offered in Transportation to and from Philmont is not included in the cost.

NAYLE uses elements of Philmont Ranger training as well as advanced search-and-rescue skills to teach leadership, teamwork, and the lessons of selfless service. It trains youth staff members from all regions to help lead council-level NYLT courses. Venturing Crew members ages 14 through 21 of the Venturing program are encouraged to attend the Venturing Leadership Skills Course which is provided by the Venturing Crew or the local Boy Scout council. Crew officers can attend Crew Officer Orientation.

Up to that point, junior leader training had been focused on Scoutcraft skills and the Patrol Method. The national council's program has gone through a number of revisions since then, and the emphasis on and description of the leadership skills has evolved over the years. Its origins as a program that teaches leadership skills originated on the Presidio of Monterey at the Army Language School in California.

Until the early s, junior leader training focused primarily on Scoutcraft skills and teaching the Patrol Method. A group of volunteer Scouters formally christened it as the White Stag program in , and through the early s it gradually evolved into a three-phase, multi-year program. Perin provided guidance and acted as a liaison to the National Council.

They encouraged the national staff to look at the White Stag program. Organized by Tripp, the purpose of the meeting was to acquaint the national council leadership with the new design for junior leader training and to evaluate whether the ideas could be effectively incorporated into teaching leadership skills within Scouting.

The meeting was notable for the people it drew from across the United States. The positions of the individuals from the headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America in New Jersey included top national BSA executives and board members. Also present were two volunteers: Hunt , a Professor of Education at Harvard. The local attendees also represented the top council leadership. The National Council was, according to Dr.

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They didn't get what he was talking about. Herold Hunt , a Professor of Education at Harvard, prevailed on the board to take a longer look. Larson, at the time a staff researcher for the National Council, traveled to California and observed the program's annual Indaba at the Presidio of Monterey later that year. They conducted a thorough study, interviewing participants, parents, and leaders.

They distributed questionnaires to program participants, reviewed the White Stag literature, and observed the program in action. They also conducted a statistical analysis of troops taking part in White Stag and compared them to non-participating units. It stated that offering leadership development to youth was a unique opportunity for Scouting to provide a practical benefit to youth and would add substantial support to Scouting's character development goals.

It recommended that Wood Badge should be used to implement the leadership development principles of White Stag. There were a few on the National Staff who strongly resisted the change to how leaders and youth were trained, including "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt , who was loyal to the idea of teaching purely Scoutcraft skills and the Patrol Method at Wood Badge. While immensely respected for his many contributions to Scouting, Chief Scout Joseph Brunton overruled Hillcourt's objections and approved adapting the White Stag leadership competencies for nationwide use.

Over the next several years, Larson repeatedly visited the Monterey Peninsula to observe and evaluate the White Stag program.

Larson wrote the first syllabus for the adult Wood Badge program. The World Organization of the Scout Movement published the results of the Boy Scouts of America's research and testing of the White Stag approach to leadership development. World Scouting Reference Paper No. He guided their national training teams in designing leadership development by design programs. In , the changes in Wood Badge were migrated to a new junior leader training program which was implemented nationwide.