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Challenges of Teacher-Age Boys 14-16

• The Teacher age is a turning point of life for
  young men.

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Characteristics of a Teacher-age boy 1416

• Physical
• Pronounced bodily developments
• Increase in strength and reaction
• Wants more formal team activities and
  participates in group sports looking for
  group acceptance
• Desires more Challenge Risk (High Adventure)

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Characteristics of a Teacher-age boy 1416

• Mental
• Ability to think abstractly, to set goals, and
  plans for his future
• Begins to question the world around him
• Desires to develop character and personality

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Characteristics of a Teacher-age boy 1416

• Spiritual
• Begins to define ones self in terms of
  opinions, beliefs and values
• Challenge of authority, and even doctrine
• Pulls away from family and looks for other
  mentors or adults
• A church study several years ago found that
  parents have the greatest impact on 12 and 13
  year old boy in how he behaves and exercises his
  agency. However, as young men approach 14 and
  15 and grow toward manhood, major influence in
  his life becomes his leaders and his peers
  particularly his YM leaders.

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Characteristics of a Teacher-age boy 1416

• Social
• Begins to form personal identity
• Begins to compare ones self to other peers
• They feel the need to belong
• They begin to question adult authority being
  independent of parents influence

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Inactivity Highest Among Teachers

• We are losing more youth to inactivity
• 1-11 yrs old (-28) 72
• 11-13 yrs old (-4) 68
• 13-15 yrs old (-18) 50
• 15-17 yrs old (-8) 42

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Vitalizing the Teachers Quorum?

• Given the characteristics and challenges facing
  Teacher-age young men, what can we do as leaders
  to make sure that our voices remain louder than
  Satans?
• What do we really want to have happen in the
  lives of our young men of age 14 and 15 ?

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Goal of the Teachers Quorum?

• Retain the Active
• Reclaim the Less Active
• Grow the Quorum
• What can we do as Leaders to help the quorum
  presidency accomplish these goals?
• Answer Help YM Have Spiritual Experiences
  Through a STRONG ACTIVITY PROGRAM!

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Aaronic Activity Program for Teachers

• If you build itthey will come!
• If you dontthey will go elsewhere.

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President David O McKay

• The spirituality of a ward will be commensurate
  with the activity of the youth of that ward.
• Why?

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YM Activities

• Aaronic Priesthood activities should strengthen
  testimonies and foster personal growth. They
  should be based on the purposes of the Aaronic
  Priesthood. They also should provide
  opportunities to apply the principles taught in
  Sunday quorum meetings and feel support in living
  them.
• General Handbook of
  Instructions, Book 2, p. 186.

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How do we vitalize the Teachers Quorum?

• Through a Fun, Priesthood-Centered Activity
  Program in the Teachers Quorum which Includes
  Varsity Scouting

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• Section 2
• Varsity Scouting
• A Laboratory for Applying Gospel Principles

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President Monson

• Scouting teaches boys how to live, not merely
  how to make a living. How pleased I am that The
  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in
  1913 became the first partner to sponsor Scouting
  in the United States. Weve remained strong and
  firm in our support of this great movement for
  boys and of the Oath and the Law which are at its
  center.
• -- Elder Thomas S. Monson
• October 1982

President Thomas S. Monson 1st Counselor, The
First Presidency Longest tenured member National
Executive Board, BSA Since 1969
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Why Scouting in Church?

• 33 of LDS YM serve full-time missions.
• 94 of LDS Eagle Scouts serve missions.

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Why Scouting in Church?

• When properly applied, Varsity Scouting acts as
  a laboratory for boys with dedicated leaders
  serving as trained laboratory instructors,
  monitoring and encouraging the application of the
  purposes of the Aaronic Priesthood by providing
  action experiences that appeal to quorum members.
• On My Honor, Thane Packer pg.10

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Importance of Activities/Monthly Outings

• 5 Steps of Learning Process
• Exposure
• Repetition
• Understanding
• Conviction
• APPLICATION

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Importance of Activities/Monthly Outings

• Application
• There are action limitations in whatever we try
  to teach on Sunday. We do better when our Sunday
  lessons are fortified, through the experience of
  doing at another place and time. This is where
  Scouting becomes the laboratory for Aaronic
  Priesthood holders.

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Importance of Activities/Monthly Outings

• True the restored gospel exposes us to truth.
  True the Church provides us with repeated
  exposure. True the Church provides us with an
  array of tools and methods to help us understand.
  True the Lord grants us the blessing of the Holy
  Ghost to convince us that certain things are
  true. But the bottom line in the teaching and
  learning of the gospel are found in the
  opportunities to apply the gospel.
• (Thayne Packer)

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Trained, Inspired Leaders are Key

• For the inspired and trained leader, 2 games are
  being played capturing the boys interest at the
  same time finding opportunities to help
  strengthen the boys testimonies.
• In the hands of an inspired, dedicated, and
  trained leader Varsity Scouting is an
  effective tool to help young men accomplish the
  purposes of the Aaronic Priesthood.

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Testimonial - Stake President(double-click black
box)
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Testimonial Parents (double-click black box)
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Testimonial - Varsity Scout (double-click black
box)
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Varsity Scouting for Teachers Quorum?

• What is Varsity Scouting?
• How does it differ from Boy Scouts?
• How does it meet the challenges of the
  Teacher-age boys?

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An Effective Varsity Program Includes

• Well-Planned Activities with Priesthood Purpose
• The role of Varsity Coaches (Teacher Advisors) is
  to train and guide varsity scout youth leaders to
  run their teams with a priesthood purpose. A
  Varsity Coach mostly teaches from the SIDELINES.
• Varsity Scout youth leaders plan and carryout
  activities with the guidance of the Coach.
• Use the Varsity Scout Interest Survey VIS and the
  Resource Survey for Varsity Leaders to match
  interest of boys with experience of adults as
  advisors.

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An Effective Varsity Program Includes

• Activities with 5 Areas of Emphasis
• Advancement
• High Adventure / Sports
• Personal Development
• Service
• Special Programs and Events

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An Effective Varsity Program Includes

• Progress Towards Eagle

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Team Organization / Adult Shadow Leadership
Team Committee
Coach
Captain
Adventure/ sports
Service
Personal Development
Special Events
Advancement
Adventure Program Mgr
Service Program Mgr
Personal Dev Program Mgr
Special Events Program Mgr
Advancement Program Mgr
Squad Leaders (Big Quorum)
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Varsity Scouting

• I do not believe that Varsity scouting is on
  trial in the church, nor is boy Scouting, Cub
  Scouting, or ExploringVenturing. But rather it
  is my firm belief that bishops, and the ward
  leaders, the advisers, scoutmasters, coaches, and
  Explorer Venturing advisers are on trial. The
  program will work if they will work and become
  trained and put into effect the things they have
  been trained to do.
• Vaughn J. Featherstone (Feb. 11, 1982)

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How do we plan and organize fun, effective
Aaronic Priesthood/Varsity Scout activities?

• Implementation of the Varsity Scout program
• Become Trained in Varsity Scouting
• Blending well planned, fun, safe Varsity
  Scouting and Duty to God programs and
  activities

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How to get Varsity Program Started

• Contact Stake YM Leadership
• Contact Unit Commissioner
• Fast Start Video
• Manuals / Guidebooks
• Monthly Roundtable
• Specific Leader Training (Sept. 10, 2005)
• Wood Badge
• FUN!

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Manuals / Guidebooks
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Varsity / Teachers Quorum Integration

• First, make sure that Teachers Quorum President
  is TRAINED in their Duties, PRESIDES in all
  meetings of the Quorum, and actively carries out
  duties.
• Second, make sure that the Team Captain / Senior
  Patrol Leader is Trained in his responsibilities
  and is leading the Team / Troop (under the
  direction of the quorum president)

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Varsity / Teachers Quorum Integration

• The Varsity Scout Unit must not operate
  independent of the quorum.
• Planning for Team is done during Teachers Quorum
  Presidency Meeting

Scouting is part of the Quorum Presidencys
responsibilities. Each scout unit should have a
Team Captain or Senior Patrol Leader who is
nominated by the bishopric and sustained by
quorum members. This leader is usually the
quorum president. (LDS Scouting Handbook, pg.
3) At least once each month, after the foregoing
matters have been considered, the quorum
presidency meeting is used to make plans for the
quorums scout unit. If youth and adult leaders
are not already present, they are invited to the
meeting at this time. (Church Handbook of
Instructions, Book 2 Section 2, pg 184-185)
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• Section 3
• Duty to God

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Elder Hales

• I promise you that your achievement of the Duty
  to God Award will provide you with a living
  testimony that will sustain you throughout your
  life.

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Duty to God

• The Duty to God program helps young men
  accomplish the purposes of the Aaronic
  Priesthood. It helps them develop skills and
  attributes that are needed to succeed in life.

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Importance of Monthly Outings

• Application
• There are action limitations in whatever we try
  to teach on Sunday. We do better when our Sunday
  lessons are fortified, through the experience of
  doing at another place and time. This is where
  Scouting becomes the laboratory for Aaronic
  Priesthood holders.

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Duty to God and Scouting

• Many Scouting requirements can fulfill goals and
  requirements of the Aaronic Priesthood Duty to
  God Program.
• So run a consolidated program!
• On my honor, I will do my best to do my Duty to
  God

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Duty To God Scouting

• If you plan carefully
• You can accomplish many Duty to God Requirements
  through Scouting.
• Scouting/Duty to God Mapping Docs at
• www.DutytoGod.com

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Example Consolidated Program
Quorum Activity Plan
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Tracking Duty to God

• Variety of tools and approaches
• Individual vs. group
• Vertical vs. horizontal
• Formats
• Printed (PDF)
• Document file
• Excel spreadsheet
• Stored on Web (DutyToGod.org)
• Handouts show examples

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Role of Parents
Parents have the primary responsibility to help
your sons succeed. Become familiar with the
guidebooks and review them with your sons. Help
them set and accomplish goals. Talk with them
about their progress, compliment their efforts
and sign completed goals.
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Role of Parents, Leaders, Quorum Pres.

• Conduct Role Play New Quorum Member Visit

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Other Duty to God Ideas

• Conduct Semi-annual Duty to God Firesides with
  Parents.
• Use FHE as a tool to fulfill Duty to God
• Read Letter to Elder Dellenbach on Duty to God

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Testimonial - Former Varsity Scout Leader