Transcript Welcome to Scoutmaster Specific Training

Session Three: Keeping It Going
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Song Fest
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Keeping It Going
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Program planning—annual planning conference
Membership
Paperwork
Finances
The uniform
Other training opportunities
Summary and closing
Five Steps of Annual
Troop Program Planning
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Do your homework.
Get patrol input.
Hold a planning conference.
Consult with the troop committee.
Announce the plan.
The Human Knot
Patrol Activity
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Planning Items to Consider
• Boards of review
• Courts of honor
• Year-round
recruiting plan
• Webelos-to-Scout
transition
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• Monthly activities
• Service/conservation
project
• Troop Leadership
Training (TLT)
Patrol Planning Exercise
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Your Primary Planning Tools
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Troop Program Features
Troop Program Resources
Troop program support
Council calendar
Other calendars
Secrets to Growing A Troop
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Retain current members.
Bring Webelos Scouts into the troop.
Build strong pack relationships.
Recruit boys not currently in Scouting.
Emphasize the importance of Scouting to parents.
Accept the responsibility to bring in
new members.
• Encourage boys to recruit other boys.
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Video No. 8: Growing the Troop
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The biggest disservice we can do is
fail to give a boy an invitation to
take advantage of all that Scouting
has to offer.
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Share the Paperwork!
• Charter renewal
• Quality Unit Award
• Money–earning
application
• Tour permit
• Advancement records
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Troop budget form
Membership applications
Health forms
Eagle Scout Leadership
Service Project Workbook
• NESA application
Troop Finances
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Troop expenses
Troop budget
Money–earning projects
Boys’ Life magazine
The Uniform
Official
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Activity
Supplemental Training
• Youth Protection Training
• Introduction to Outdoor
Leader Skills
• Wood Badge for the
21st Century
• Boy Scout roundtables
• Advanced camping skills
• Climb On Safely
• Project COPE
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• Passport to High
Adventure Training
• Other local training
• Philmont Training Center
• Troop Leadership
Training (TLT)
• Troop Annual Program
Planning Conference
• Powder Horn
• Philmont Leadership
Challenge (PLC)
Scoutmasters and assistant Scoutmasters
need to attend Introduction to Outdoor
Leader Skills to be considered “trained.”
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Boys Want Ceremony!
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Set the scene.
Make it meaningful.
Keep it simple.
Involve the boy leaders.
You can deliver the promise of Scouting!
What will your action plan be?
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