The Human Knot Patrol Activity

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The Human Knot Patrol Activity
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Session Three Keeping It Going
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Keeping It Going

• Program planning
• Membership
• Paperwork
• Finances
• The uniform
• Advancement
• Other training opportunities
• Summary and closing

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Program Planning
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Five Steps of Annual Troop Program Planning

• Do your homework.
• Get patrol input.
• Hold a planning conference.
• Consult with the troop committee.
• Announce the plan.

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Patrol Assignment

• Dates

• Our priorities

• What dates impact our activities?

• What kinds of things do we want to do?

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Do your homework
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Planning Items to Consider

• Boards of review
• Courts of honor
• Year-round recruiting plan
• Webelos-to-Scout transition

• Monthly activities
• Service/conservation projects
• Troop Leadership Training (TLT)

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Get Patrol Input

• Outline the year
• SPL drives the decision making at the Annual
  Planning Conference

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Annual Planning Conference Agenda

• SPL welcome
• Review objectives how well get there
• Develop Troop goals
• Plan for major events
• Monthly program features
• Service, Conservation, Boards
• Final review

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Consult the Troop Committee

• SPL presents the proposed plan, supported by the
  SM
• Committee considerations
• Resources
• Charter organization goals
• Safety
• (rarely) suggest changes to the PLC

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Announce the Plan

• To whom?
• How?

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Monthly Planning

• Who does the monthly planning? Where does this
  occur?
• Events
• Meetings

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Patrol Leaders Council

• Regularly scheduled PLC agenda
• Opening
• Roll call and review the minutes of the last
  meeting
• Patrol reports
• Old business
• Planning the months programs and events
• Planning the months Troop Meetings
• New business
• Scoutmasters Minute
• Ad hoc PLCs

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Your Primary Planning Tools

• Troop Program Features
• Troop Program Resources
• Troop program support
• Council calendar
• Other calendars

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Weve Come Full Circle

• Recall
• The role of the Scoutmaster in a Boy Led Troop
• The structure and leadership of a Boy Led Troop
• Working with Boy Leaders, using the Patrol
  Method, the PLC does Program Planning
• Through it all, the boys have had significant
  roles in providing leadership and planning the
  activities of the troop. Thats exactly how it
  should be.

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Program Planning Summary

• See that energy is put into planning
• Rely on others
• Train others
• The Scoutmasters Rule The less you do, the
  better youre doing

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Membership
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Membership

• Retention
• Recruit
• Webelos
• Other youth
• Parents
• Transfer
• Consider the role of adult leaders, of boys in
  the troop

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Secrets to Growing A Troop

• 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 member.
• 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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Lunch
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Paperwork
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Share the Paperwork!

• Charter renewal
• Journey to Excellence
• Moneyearning application
• Tour permit
• Advancement records

• Troop budget form
• Membership applications
• Health forms
• Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project Workbook
• NESA application

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Finances
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Troop Finances

• Troop expenses
• Troop budget
• Moneyearning projects
• Boys Life magazine

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The Uniform
Field Uniform
Activity Uniform
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When? Which?

• Which? When?

• Do not wear the uniform

• Field Uniform
• Ceremonial activities
• Most Troop Meetings
• Summer Camp
• Traveling to or from events
• Activity Uniform
• More physically active events
• Troop or camp t-shirts
• Conservation projects
• Backcountry camping

• Do not wear the uniform while selling a
  commercial product or service, even for Scout
  money-raising purposes.
• Where endorsement of the BSA may be mistakenly
  implied
• Where the activity could discredit the BSA, the
  uniform, or the person wearing it.

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Supplemental Training

• 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)

• 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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Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters need to
attend Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills to
be considered trained.
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Advancement
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The Four Steps to Advancement

• A Scout learns.
• A Scout is tested.
• A Scout is reviewed.
• A Scout is recognized.

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Video segment No. 6 Teaching Scout Skills
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A Scout is Tested
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Video segment No. 7 The Scoutmaster Conference
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The Board of Review

• Not a retest, but a discussion
• Atmosphere of trust and support
• Encouragement and praise

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A Scout Is Recognized

• Immediately by the Scoutmaster
• Publicly in a court of honor

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Boys Want Ceremony!

• Set the scene.
• Make it meaningful.
• Keep it simple.
• Involve the boy leaders.

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Advancement Bookkeeping

• Use Troopmaster

• Use Internet Advancement

• Scoutnet, Internet recharter, internet
  advancement

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Strengths of the Advancement Program

• Its fun.
• It offers adventure.
• It allows Scouts to measure their progress.
• It provides recognition.
• It promotes development of mental and physical
  fitness, character, and citizenship.
• But its just one of the eight methodsof
  Scouting!

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Summary Keeping it going

• The Methods of Scouting
• The Ideals
• The Patrol Method
• The Outdoors
• Advancement
• Association with Adults
• Personal Growth
• Leadership Development
• The Uniform

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• You can deliver the promise of Scouting!
• What will your action plan be?