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What it takes to lead a troop week after week. Scoutmasters and assistant Scoutmasters wrote openly about vision, patience, mentoring youth leaders and the occasional rainy campout.
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A reader sent a link to a venerable work published many decades ago titled " Principles of Scoutmastership in Relation to Boy Development " prepared by a commission who set themselves the task of answering these questions 1. What is this development we seek for the boy?
Registering a Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Posted in Adult LeadershipLeadershipYouth LeadershipReader Michael sent in this question: How do I go about registering an Eagle Scout in my troop as a Junior Assistant Scoutmaster? Copyright Scouter Mom - A resource for adults and youth involved in...
A ripping good yarn from John Thurman's Patrol Leader's Handbook was aimed at helping the Scouts of 1950 catch the spirit of their work as patrol leaders. I offer it here to spark your imagination, and to answer the question ‘why do we have Scoutmasters?'; In the early days of Scouting boys from all over…
Last month I conducted Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Specific Training for our District. Well, ostensibly it was for the District, but for whatever reason, only volunteers from our Troop came to be trained. This training, if you haven't gone through it yet, is pretty straight forward. I've taught it a few times and have just
________________________________________ Dear Andy, I read your column with the question about Scoutmasters taking over the announcements really hit home-it could have been written about me! We have a good troop that's active, uniformed, and youth-run. Thanks to you, I just made a commitment that the Senior Patrol Leader will no longer stand on the sidelines while…
Well, it has been a long time since our last post.. I'll get you caught up real quick and then move on to the subject for this post.. Resetting… As you know if you have been following the blog for some time, my youngest son is a great football player.
(Article adapted from Scouting magazine's "Bryan on Scouting" blog .) Later this year, the two-volume Troop Leader Guidebook will debut, replacing the Scoutmaster Handbook and offering helpful checklists, quick tips, and fresh ideas for both new troop leaders and veteran Scouters.
If you judge the Scoutmaster Handbook by its cover, you might assume it's solely meant for, well, Scoutmasters. Assistant Scoutmasters, it seemed, were to look elsewhere for Scouting wisdom. That's about to change. Later this year, the two-volume Troop Leader Guidebook will debut, replacing the Scoutmaster Handbook and offering helpful checklists, quick tips and fresh…
The Spirit of Scouting and the Spirit of the Scoutmaster The Spirit of the Scout Master must be the spirit of Scouting itself. There is hardly any use of a Scout Master trying to teach the principles of the Scout Oath and Scout Law, if he is not living them himself. The spirit of the
How well are we applying the patrol system? I often ask myself this question and I am constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for our Scouts. I've set up a patrol system survey to see how the patrol system is used in other troops, ( there aren't any ‘right' answers).
I have been in discussions lately.. yeah still talking about "The issue".. the good news is simply this. All of the discussions that I have been engaged in as of late are about where we go from here. Moving on.
Dear Parents, As you may be aware, the Boy Scouts of America voted the other day to change its policy to allow boys that are homosexual to join the organization. This decision, even though it has been debated for the better part of a year continues to draw much discussion.
In this edition of the Scoutmaster Podcast it's time, once again, for another Scoutmaster Panel Discussion! Larry and Tom join me to discuss program evaluation tools and how we keep up with how well we are doing our work as Scoutmasters (or as any Scouting volunteer).
This email about one Webelos crossover to a troop needs little introduction or explanation, but one part bears repeating; Meetings don't cut it, selling the parents on how great a troop is doesn't cut it, your "reputation" of being a strong troop doesn't cut it.
35 years ago, Kathy Hall was a single mother of three in search of a male role model for her then 7 year-old son. She decided to enroll him in her neighborhood Boy Scout troop, under the Grand Towers district.
I asked Jay to write about his experiences in Scouting because I think it's important to get to know and understand each other, that young men like Jay are not new to Scouting, that they have always been there – Clarke To all my fellow Scouters – We are all engaged in a conversation about whether or…
I asked Jay to write about his experiences in Scouting because I think it’s important to get to know and understand each other, that young men like Jay, a gay Scout, are not new to Scouting, they have always been there – Clarke To all my fellow Scouters – We are all engaged in a conversation about…
If your council offers a University of Scouting adult leader training event, you should go! Seriously… don't hesitate, just get yourself registered. Similar to a Little Philmont event, I think it is well worth the time. I look forward to UoS every year as an opportunity to hear from others about their experiences, ask questions…
