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1 Introducing FERENC PETHŐ Scoutmaster, N5-352-12
Once again, welcome to our Wood Badge course. This presentation will give you some perspective and an overview of what you can expect to experience during the course. Handouts of the charts will be distributed after the presentation, so it would be a good idea to make notes of key points and discussion items in your notebooks. You can feel free to ask questions at any time. I’ll also reserve some time at the end of the presentation to answer questions. Before we get going, though, let me explain what totems are all about…… These are my totems…… Day 1, 10:10 AM, 30 minutes FERENC PETHŐ Scoutmaster, N Course Overview

2 Course Overview This presentation is all about giving you an overview as to what will happen during the whole course Course Overview

3 Learning Objectives As a result of this session you will be able to:
Progression of BSA training …. Wood Badge Get an overview of the practical and application phases of Wood Badge Why the Boy Scout troop is used Discard any misconceptions or anxiety This is what you should be able to take away from this session. click for each bullet point First, you should understand the progression of BSA training opportunities and the place Wood Badge holds in that framework. Second, you’ll get an overview of the practical and application phases of Wood Badge. Third, you should understand why the Boy Scout troop is used during Wood Badge as the model for training and team-building. And finally, you should be able to discard any misconceptions or anxiety regarding the course purpose, content, and methods of presentation. Course Overview

4 What do you associate with Wood Badge?
Leadership! Okay, now let’s play a word association game. I’ll say something and you respond with the first thing that comes to mind. Ready? click What do you associate with Wood Badge. (Participants may respond with a variety of answers -- Gilwell, Baden-Powell, beads, camping, etc.) Those are all good answers. If we play this game again at the end of this course, I expect that your answer may be different. At the end of this course when I say Wood Badge, the first response that will come to mind is going to be this: leadership. You see, the quality of the Scouting experience for Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Venturers depends upon the quality of those leading the units and those working in the districts and councils throughout the nation. The Boy Scouts of America offers us, as leaders, a progression of training opportunities to give us the skills we need to provide leadership for Scouting and leadership for America. Here is how it works ... Course Overview

5 BSA Training Curriculum
Tiger Den Leader (T) Cub Den Leader (T) Webelos Den Leader (T) Cubmaster/Asst. (T) Pack Committee (T) Scoutmaster/Asst. Troop Committee (T) Venturing Leader (T) POSITION-SPECIFIC TRAINING Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills (T) BALOO (Cub Scout Family Camping) Webelos Leader Outdoor Training ADVANCED TRAINING CORE TRAINING Youth Protection Training (T/Q) Fast Start This Is Scouting First, there’s the core training curriculum. Orientation and Fast Start – These video sessions provide an introduction to the Scouting organization in each program area: Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing. This is Scouting – This is a 90-minute overview of the values, mission, and vision of the Boy Scouts of America, and an introduction to each of the Scouting programs. Then, the position-specific courses. Position-Specific Training – Contained in this training are the nuts and bolts of specific positions in Scouting. Adult leaders can learn how best to fulfill their particular leadership roles in Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, or Venturing, or as district or council Scouters involved with multiple Scouting program areas. Appropriate Outdoor Skills Training – These training opportunities are targeted to enhance the outdoor skills needed by leaders in Scouting’s various programs. Then advanced training, in the form of Wood Badge for the 21st Century. Wood Badge – This is the BSA’s ultimate leadership training for adults, and it’s why we’re here at Quail Hill Scout Reservation. And finally, supplemental training. Lifelong Learning – In addition to its progression of structured training, the BSA encourages leaders to take advantage of opportunities for continuous learning and supplemental training within the Scouting organization: roundtables, pow wows, COPE courses, University of Scouting, Scouting publications, special courses tailored to specific program areas of emphasis, etc. Lifelong learning is further enhanced when we accept the challenge of teaching skills to others. On the chart, (T) indicates the level of training required to wear the Trained strip and (Q) indicates that Youth Protection Training is required for Quality Unit and for Training Awards. Also note that Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills is required for Scoutmasters, and Assistant Scoutmasters to have completed basic training and wear the Trained strip. The front end of this progression of BSA training is skills-oriented. In the middle, the emphasis is on leadership. That will be our emphasis here on N After that, the focus is on advanced skills that require leadership. SUPPLEMENTARY TRAINING Cub Scout Leader Pow Wow Adult Basic Backpacking Leave No Trace Camping Charter Organization Rep. Training Commissioner Basic Training Key Leader Workshop Trainer Development Conference University of Scouting (T) = Required for Trained Strip (Q) = Required for Quality Unit and Training Awards Course Overview

6 What can you expect from this Wood Badge Course?
Global view of Scouting Contemporary team leadership concepts Stages of team development FUN Provide Scouting with the best possible leadership All right, so that’s the BSA training curriculum. Now what can you expect from this Wood Badge Course? Hopefully, you’ll: click for each bullet point Acquire a global view of Scouting as a family of interrelated values-based programs providing age-appropriate activities for youth. Become familiar with contemporary team leadership concepts. Experience the stages of team development and practice leadership approaches appropriate for those stages. Have FUN in the company of interesting, like-minded individuals. Develop a renewed commitment to provide Scouting with the best possible leadership. The Wood Badge course has a foundation of five central themes to help accomplish these goals. Those themes are… Course Overview

7 Wood Badge for the 21st Century Central Themes
Living the Values Bringing the Vision to Life Models for Success Tools of the Trade Leading to Make a Difference Living the Values Bringing the Vision to Life Models for Success Tools of the Trade Leading to Make a Difference Let’s look at each of these themes and see what is behind them … Course Overview

8 Living the Values Values, Mission, and Vision
The first of the 5 themes is Living the Values. It’s the base on which our pentagonal logo and our course is built. This theme is demonstrated by: Values, Mission, and Vision This presentation will be this afternoon. Course Overview

9 Bringing the Vision to Life
Listening to Learn Communication Leveraging Diversity through Inclusiveness Generations in Scouting Coaching and Mentoring The next theme is Bringing the Vision to Life – demonstrated by presentations on: Listening to Learn (the Den Chiefs will present this to you immediately following this overview of the course) Communication (tomorrow afternoon) Inclusiveness (tomorrow morning) Valuing People and Leveraging Diversity (Day 4, PM) Coaching and Mentoring (Day 5, AM) Course Overview

10 Models for Success Stages of Team Development
The Leading EDGE™ /The Teaching EDGE™ Models for Success is demonstrated by: Stages of Team Development (tomorrow morning) The Leading EDGE and The Teaching EDGE (Saturday morning) (You’ll have to wait until then to discover what the acronym EDGE stands for. Course Overview

11 Tools of the Trade Project Planning Leading Change
Problem Solving and Decision Making Managing Conflict Self-Assessment The theme of Tools of the Trade is demonstrated by: Project Planning (tomorrow afternoon) Leading Change (Day 4, AM) Problem Solving and Decision Making (Day 4, PM) Managing Conflict (Day 4, PM) Self-Assessment (Day 5, AM) and finally… Course Overview

12 Leading to Make a Difference
Leaving A Legacy Leading to Make a Difference is demonstrated by: Leaving a Legacy (on the last day of the course) That completes our pentagon, formed by the 5 course themes. Now let’s look at some of the course structure. Course Overview

13 Why a Troop Setting? Framework to practice leadership
Translates to any Scouting program Days 1,2 & 3 = 3 weeks of troop meetings Days 4,5 & 6 = Outdoor experience First of all, why do we use a model Boy Scout Troop as the setting for our course, since Wood Badge is designed to be as valuable to leaders involved with all phases of the Scouting program? You begin this course as Cub Scouts, actually as Webelos Scouts. In al little while your Den Chiefs will become Troop Guides as they make the transition with you into Gilwell Troop 1. Later during the course, the Troop Guides will be inducted into the Venturing program. For the bulk of the course, though, all of us will consider ourselves to be members of Gilwell Troop 1. Click 1.Using the patrol method in a model troop setting provides us with a good framework to practice the leadership skills introduced during this course. Click 2.Be assured, though, that the course content and leadership principles are applicable to Scouters working throughout the movement, and we will provide a common foundation of leadership skills to be used in all program areas – Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Venturing, as well as district and council positions. Click 3.There will be three troop meetings during this course, one on each of the first three days. These represent three weeks in the life of a Scout unit. Click 4. The final weekend of the course – the outdoor experience – parallels the sort of activity a Boy Scout troop (or a Cub Scout pack or a Venturing crew) would build toward for the final week of a month-long program. Your preparation leading up to the outdoor experience, which will take place on our October weekend, will include two mid-course patrol meetings which you will schedule before leaving camp on Saturday . Course Overview

14 Gilwell Gazette Provides full access to information
Tells what’s going on Includes the day’s agenda Captures important developments Includes articles by Patrol Scribes Published daily As the course progresses, you will find that you are being provided with a great deal of information, both as presentations and as resource material explaining what is happening and why. Teams can develop most efficiently when they have full access to resources. click The Gilwell Gazette is the newspaper of our course and our editor is the jolly journalist Chris Rogers, who serves as our Troop Asst. Scribe. In the Gilwell Gazette you will find a wealth of information, including the schedule of events for the day, interesting stories about people and activities, articles submitted by Patrol Scribes – we hope by every Patrol Scribe – and lots of material that relates to the operation of the course. The Gilwell Gazette is a morning paper which is published daily. Course Overview

15 Patrol Project Each patrol to plan and produce project
Issue that impacts 4 program areas and relevance to the BSA Presented on Day 5 Involves all patrol members Earlier today, you had an opportunity to see the projects which were developed by the Wood Badge staff. click for each bullet point At the Patrol Leader’s Council meeting this afternoon, (CLICK) each patrol will be challenged to plan and produce a project of its own. (CLICK) Your project must illustrate some universal theme or aspect of Scouting that is clearly associated with Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting and Venturing, and if you’re really good District and Council Scouting as well. (CLICK) Patrols will present their projects to the entire troop on the fifth day of the course, which is FRIDAY on our October weekend. (CLICK) The project must consist of a self-explanatory display and an oral presentation that involves all members of the patrol. Course Overview

16 The Wood Badge Ticket A Wood Badge tradition
Goals relating to your Scouting position Personal Vision of Success A plan to take home – a chance to strengthen Scouting in your Unit, District, and Council One of the great traditions of Wood Badge is the ticket. (CLICK) In Baden-Powell’s day, those in the military were expected to pay their way back to England at the end of their military service. In order to economize, soldiers nearing the completion of their military duties would seek assignments at posts increasingly close to home – a process known as “working your ticket.” (CLICK) During this course, each of you will be asked to develop a ticket – a list of goals that will allow you to improve the Scouting program for the youth membership. (CLICK) Your Personal vision of success – those 20 questions ,as pre-course assignment, will help you think through what is important to you (CLICK) Your ticket will allow you to apply the leadership skills you’ve learned during the practical phase of this course, in ways that strengthen Scouting in your home units, districts, and councils. Details about the ticket process will be coming along this afternoon in the session Values, Mission, and Vision. Course Overview

17 Summary BSA training opportunities
Wood Badge course is the pinnacle of leadership training Five central themes of Wood Badge The Boy Scout troop format provides a practical framework The Gilwell Gazette – our course newspaper Patrol project – a teamwork exercise Wood Badge Ticket – your commitment An essential requirement for every Wood Badge course is to have In summary, here are the key take-home messages from this presentation: BSA training opportunities serve to enhance leadership for Scouting and other areas of our lives A Wood Badge course is the pinnacle of leadership training for you as leaders in the Scouting program. The curriculum of this course is built around five central themes: Living the Values Bringing the Vision to Life Models for Success Tools of the Trade Leading to Make a Difference Wood Badge is appropriate training for adults involved with Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing. The Boy Scout troop format provides a practical framework for much of a Wood Badge course. The Gilwell Gazette, Patrol project, and Wood Badge Ticket help us to bring the leadership skills to life. An essential requirement for every Wood Badge course is to have FUN! FUN!! Course Overview

18 Review Learning Objectives
Do you? Understand the progression of BSA training opportunities and the place Wood Badge holds in that framework Have an overview of the practical and application phases of Wood Badge Understand why the Boy Scout troop is used during Wood Badge as the model for training and team-building Have discarded any misconceptions or anxiety regarding the course purpose, content, and methods of presentation YOU BET !!! YOU BET !!! YOU BET !!! YOU BET !!! Okay, so let’s review what we said we were going to cover in this overview session. Here is what I hope you’ve learned. First, you should understand the progression of BSA training opportunities and the place Wood Badge holds in that framework. Second, you now have an overview of the practical and application phases of Wood Badge. Third, you should understand why the Boy Scout troop is used during Wood Badge as the model for training and team-building. And finally, you should be able to discard any misconceptions or anxiety regarding the course purpose, content, and methods of presentation. Be assured that we’re not playing head-games here. Even though we expect this course to be a thoroughly enjoyable experience, our goal is for you to apply the serious skills of leadership to your job in Scouting, so that the youth membership will be the true beneficiaries. Course Overview

19 ARE YOU FIRED UP!! YOU BET !!! Course Overview

20 Thank You! Thank you for your attention. I’ll now open up the floor for any questions that you might have. Course Overview


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