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Small groups of Scouts, led by Scouts. The patrol method was one of the most talked-about ideas in troop leadership, and these posts work through patrol leaders' councils, patrol identity and letting youth lead.
136 posts · 2007–2019
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The following piece was composed for a BSA ScoutCast. The concept applies admirably to pioneering when Scouts, who who have the proper “tools” and are capable and ready, care to embrace the construction of any-size pioneering project. The Guided Discovery Process is a fancy term for what?
What in the world is this ‘Patrol System'?" When I first seriously started studying Scouting and its history, I kept running across references to something called the "Patrol Method" or "Patrol System". They weren't just simply referring to a method of organizing Scouts, which is what I thought Patrols were for at first.
We often focus on membership when it comes to the retention and recruiting issue. This is absolutely a header in the discussion. However a better indication of unit health is your participation percentages. That is how many of your registered Scouts are participating in your activities.
This encore presentation features an interview with the authors of Working the Patrol Method, a Scout leader's guide to youth leadership training. I think this is the best work on the patrol method since 'Green Bar' Bill Hillcourt's Handbook for Patrol Leaders last published in 1965 or Baden Powell's Aids to Scoutmastership originally published in…
Here's my comments on the new Scout Rank requirements that take effect on January 1, 2016. Exactly how the new requirements are phased in is explained in this PDF document – Notes on Transitioning to the New Requirements . I found the new requirements in this PDF – 2016 Boy Scout requirements-parallel comparison .
Get a PDF version of this infographic below. I've written extensively about developing youth leadership but this article focuses on how our youth leaders are selected. Before we delve into specifics let's agree that there's a danger of losing the distinction between suggestions, rules and regulations, and mandated practices.
Last night at our Patrol Leaders Council meeting we discussed the most recent camp out, or I should say camp out attempt. To recap, the weather got real bad, gear got wet, we assessed the risk and bailed out…in a nut shell.
