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In his essay The Impending Demise of the University Don Tapscott defines linear learning; In the industrial model of student mass production, the teacher is the broadcaster. A broadcast is by definition the transmission of information from transmitter to receiver in a one-way, linear fashion.
Our nationwide movement of some 2.8 million youth and 1.3 million adult participants is defined by written policies and procedures. Individual understanding, subject to an individual point of view, can lead to some misinterpretations if we do not read these policies and procedures with an open mind.
Star, Life and Eagle rank all require tenure in a leadership position. For each rank the requirement states: "serve actively (x) months in one or more positions of responsibility " The word 'actively' can be a pinhead on which many angels dance.
The current question at Scouting Magazine’s Front Line Stuff How Would You Manage Rapid Growth in Your Troop? Over the past few years our troop has doubled in size due to good programming and good promotion by our committee chair.
Before you read any further please promise not to comment on this post as if I personally made any of the comments below. Promise? Okay, then read on. The comments listed here are responses to a question posted on an online parents forum: One of my brothers kids is now a Boy Scout.
Scouting Magazine’s Front Line Stuff asks how to balance sports and Scouting : So many of our Scouts are involved in sports that there are always conflicts between troop meetings and outings and team practices and games. How do other troops handle this issue?
The more rules you have in the classroom, the more time you’ll spend enforcing them. Cookie Ohlson, teacher, Prospect Park Middle School, Pennsylvania Scouters can be tempted to make troop rules, the kind of rules that end with Scouts looking for and exploiting flaws in the rule making like so many lawyers.
Every Friday five posts from Scoutmaster worth reviewing. This week the subject is Patrol Development Making Patrols Work ... integrating the patrols by age is important. Any Scoutmaster would admit that encouraging Scouts of different ages to work together is an ongoing challenge.
Gather wood, prepare tinder, kindling and fuel. Strike a match (maybe two) and we make fire. Preparing, building, lighting and maintaining a fire involves interdependent skills, knowledge and actions that constitute a process. Comprehending and executing a process requires process intelligence.
The Ten Essentials of Scoutmastership penned by William 'Green Bar' Hillcourt were part of the Scoutmaster's Handbook for many years. 6. A steadfastness of purpose to carry out a planned program with energy and perseverance, patience and good humor. The adolescent world is uncertain, unpredictable and capricious.
Homer:So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool. Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool. Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square". Lisa: That song is so lame.
A Scout is courteous. A Scout is polite to everyone regardless of age or position. He knows that using good manners makes it easier for people to get along. Bad manners are cool, they always have been. It has always been cool (at least to some people) to rebel against society, to challenge expectations, to…
Every Friday five posts from Scoutmaster worth reviewing. This week the subject is Tens (and one six) ; Ten Common Scoutmaster Mistakes Avoid these common pitfalls and everything else will be easy. Ten Essentials With a Quiz What to always bring camping.
Outdoorsman / Woodsman Skills - Homemade Fire Starter Vaseline and Cotton Ball Fire starter This fire starter is easy to make and cost next to nothing, it has the extra benefit of being nearly waterproof. Simply place a small amount of Vaseline in a microwave safe dish and melt on medium heat only until it begins to…
Not everyone has the right depth and kind of snow to build an igloo as shown above. How to Build an Igloo: And Other Snow Shelters by Norbert Yankielun contains instructions on how to build snow shelters adapted to your local conditions.
The Ten Essentials of Scoutmastership penned by William 'Green Bar' Hillcourt were part of the Scoutmaster's Handbook for many years. 5. A knowledge that to your boys you are Scouting. "What you are speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say!"
From an article in Outside magazine: Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht, the world's leading authority on freezing to death, believes the best way to study the effects of cold on the human body is to get intimate with the elements. Along the way to claiming numerous research firsts, the 45-year-old physiologist and director of the University of…
A Scout is friendly. A Scout is a friend to all. He is a brother to other Scouts. He offers his friendship to people of all races and nations, and respects them even if their customs are different from his own .
Every Friday five posts from Scoutmaster worth reviewing. This week the subject is Cooking; Pineapple Upside Down Cake Next time you go camping make a pineapple upside down cake. No, really, it is easy, fun and delicious. The Venerable Foil Dinner A mainstay of any Scout's arsenal of cooking methods the foil dinner is simple…
Author and Instructor Peter Kummerfeldt conducts outdoor safety skills seminars for his company OutdoorSafe . he writes: The tendency to hold optimistic opinions of our ability seems to be a part of human nature. No one wants to be "average," we want to believe that we are "better than average."
The Ten Essentials of Scoutmastership penned by William 'Green Bar' Hillcourt were part of the Scoutmaster's Handbook for many years. 4. A realization that to the boys Scouting is a game - to you, a game with a purpose: Character building and Citizenship training.
Seen today at Nick's Ramblings You don't have to be a Scout to lead a country but it helps… Today, Barak Obama becomes the latest in a long list of world leaders who gained their first taste of leadership at an early age as Scouts.
Today America welcomes our new President Barack Obama. A historic inauguration that embodies both a change of historic moment and a continuim of peaceful, democratic transition of, arguably, the most powerful position of leadership in the world. Until today the promise of an African American president was merely a conceptual aspiration, a vauge possibility of…
In 1984 62 year old Cliff Young took 7th place in one of the world's most grueling ultra-marathons; Australia's 543 mile endurance race from Sydney to Melbourne. The winner needs about five days to complete a punishing course usually only attempted by intensely trained world-class athletes half Cliff's age.
When Pat approaches the teacher and says "John hit me!" the teacher talks to John and sends Pat to play with Bill. Later Pat returns to the teacher and says "Bill hit me!". Now the teacher had better talk to Pat.
A Scout is helpful. A Scout cares about other people. He willingly volunteers to help others without expecting payment or reward. A crucial signpost in the road to maturity marks the point when we look beyond ourselves to the interests of others.
Every Friday five posts from Scoutmaster worth reviewing. This week the subject is Books; Nessmuk ' We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it we go to smooth it. We have it rough enough at home...'
A great article from Scouting Magazine, worth posting in its entirety; Scouting Magazine - January-February 2009 Let Your Scouts Lead By Mark Ray Want to achieve a youth-led unit? Find the balancing point between helping them succeed and letting them flounder.
The Ten Essentials of Scoutmastership penned by William 'Green Bar' Hillcourt were part of the Scoutmaster's Handbook for many years. 3. An immense faith in Scouting as the program that will best serve to mold our youth into fine men.
From SIr Robert Baden-Powell's 1920 book Scoutmastership : Two simple yet powerful aids to boy training exist ready to hand in (i) the wonderful enthusiasm inherent in the boy; (2) the trainer's own experience of life. One Scoutmaster has told me that he takes my weekly remarks in the Scout as his text for his week's…
A Scout is loyal. A Scout is true to his family, friends, Scout leaders, school, and nation. In the early years of our national history President John Adams signed a set of laws were enacted to prevent people from writing or speaking against the government.
Every Friday five posts from Scoutmaster worth reviewing. This week the subject is Camping Skills; Never-Fail Campfire Building This little film explains how to collect the three things needed to build a fire; tinder, kindling and fuel. Gathering the right kind of material in sufficient quantities assures quick, reliable campfire.
What I carry away from this widely distributed AP Article is - The BSA is in the midst of a membership crisis owing to two basic factors - "...a still-standing ban on gay or atheist leaders, and scandals surrounding inflated membership numbers.
The Ten Essentials of Scoutmastership penned by William 'Green Bar' Hillcourt were part of the Scoutmaster's Handbook for many years. 2. A zeal focused upon one point - the boy's happiness through his formative years - "A happy boy is a good boy, a good boy is a good citizen."
The next Front Line Stuff question is: The BSA's 100th anniversary is less than a year away. What special efforts are packs, troops, and crews planning to gain visibility and bring more boys into the program? We are planning to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America in three ways: Tell 100…
A Scout is trustworthy. A Scout tells the truth. He is honest, and he keeps his promises. People can depend on him. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Every Friday five posts from Scoutmaster worth reviewing. This week the subject is Advancement; Holding Scouts Hostage - the 13 year-old Eagle? " Now I'll go further... To artificially and arbitrarily hold a Scout back from his own advancement goals is a form of hostage-taking.
The Ten Essentials of Scoutmastership penned by William 'Green Bar' Hillcourt were part of the Scoutmaster's Handbook for many years. A belief in boys that will make you want to invest yourself and your time on their behalf. As Plato said " Of all the animals , the boy is the most unmanageable ".
Almost all of us have either had the personal experience of working with someone who displayed bad apple behaviors ... When this process starts to unfold at work, it consumes inordinate amounts of time, psychological resources, and emotional energy. ... such circumstances underlie many people's reluctance to fully commit to teams...
Scouting has long been a positive, constructive influence in the lives of young people. This vast potential for good lies in simple, direct methods that have been applied effectively across widely different cultures and systems of belief. These methods need little adaptation, modification or complication - they only require application to create opportunities for Scouts to…
I must admit that every once in a while I cannot resist this bit of fun (so long as it is not demeaning my Scouts). There's no 'butt' to this joke and everyone ends up laughing. Bring a box or bag of chocolate covered raisins on your next camp out.
The National Wildlife Federation website Green Hour advocates "...giving our children a "Green Hour" a day -- a bit of time for unstructured play and interaction with the natural world -- we can set them on the path toward physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Here's a great idea from The Trainers Corner blog: A game backpack is filled with games and various items for quick game ideas. As you can see from the picture, which has some of the contents of my backpack, there's a lot of things that can be turned into games.
Here are some excerpts from a reply to a letter from a frustrated Scoutmaster over at Ask Andy Usually, the single most important thing adult leaders can do to improve delivery of the Boy Scout program is to step back.
If I could speak to myself 25 years ago when I became a Scoutmaster here is what I would say: Learn as much as you can from training and reading. Study these invaluable references: Guide to Safe Scouting , Advancement Committee Policies and Procedures Manual , Insignia Guide , Scoutmaster's Handbook and Baden Powell's Aids to Scoutmastership .
The Scoutmaster conference is the principle contact with between Scout and Scoutmaster: Why does the Scoutmaster engage in this one-on-one review? The relationship between a Scout and his Scoutmaster is important for the troop's health and for the Scout's success.
Put a few Scoutmasters in a room and eventually the talk will turn to retaining older boys. They will speak ruefully of how they are loosing their older Scouts to car keys and girl friends, how Troops struggle to keep them interested and involved.
Trailcooking.com (an expansion to Freezerbagcooking.com ) has a number of step-by-step videos that demonstrate recipes featured on their site and in their book Freezer Bag Cooking . Freezer bag cooking is great for Scouts. It is inexpensive, simple and much better tasting than most of the freeze dried foods I have tried.
When we found the spear point and the potsherd under a sheltering wall of rock the dig began. A archeologist's expert hand peeled back layers of time connecting us to those we never met but knew as we know ourselves.
Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe is an Eagle Scout. Here is an exchange of letters posted to his blog Mike, I'm not sure where I heard that you are an Eagle Scout, which brings me to my question. Could you PLEASE take a moment & post to my 13 year old son Kelby & encourage him to…
