No Troop meeting on Friday - 9/28; Jaguar Patrol only will meet for Fitness Testing

There will NOT be a Troop meeting on Friday 9/28.

However, the Jaguar Patrol will meet at 7:00 p.m. for Tenderfoot Fitness Testing.

Thanks,

Mike

Update on Friday’s Meeting - No Meeting on Family Life MB

Here is an email from Diane regarding the rescheduling of that meeting.

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The meeting for Family Life which was scheduled for this Friday is being moved to Oct 3rd from 7-7:30.

So that means:

    No meeting this Friday 9/28

    Come early to the 10/3 troop meeting and be prepared to discuss your progress!   

For all of you who have been working so diligently on your family life merit badge, this will be your opportunity to report on your 90 days of chores and also discuss your family project.

For those of you who have nothing to report, you have 9 days to prepare!

Good luck - and thanks to the counselors for doing this for the boys!

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So at this point, we are trying to confirm whether we will have a very short testing session with the Jaguars so that can begin their 30 days of testing for the Tenderfoot fitness requirement.

Thanks,

Mike

Friday’s Meeting - special meeting

Folks, I wanted to let you know that this Friday’s meeting will only be for Scouts who don’t have the Tenderfoot fitness requirements.  I believe just the Jaguars.  Also, we may be running the Family Life Merit Badge also.  Stay tuned, we will provide additional information on this later in the week.

The only Scouts who need to attend are the ones helping run the Tenderfoot Fitness Requirement.  If we run the Family Life Merit Badge, those Scouts will need to attend also.

Meeting time starts at 7:00 and I would be surpised if it lasted a full hour.  There will be no gym time afterwards.

Let me know if you have any questions and/or comments regarding this.

Thanks,

Mike

Assistant Scoutmaster Meeting 9-22-07 Agenda

1. Calendar Review
2. Troop Organization
3. Adult Assignment to Youth Leader Positions
4. Advanced Skill Instruction
5. Troop Communications
   • Wiki
   • Blog
6. Troop advancement software
7. Junior Leader Training

Junior Leader Training Outline - courtesy of Marc White

Here is the rough outline of the JLT training we are conducting tomorrow.  Thanks to Marc for providing it!

JLT 9-22-07

8am till 9am ASM meeting

9am opening, flags, song? Divide into patrols 20 boys 4 patrols of 5

9:15

9:15 Troop 66 listening to learn

          Slides 1-16

Wood badge book 54-60

Pair off on slide 4

Do two then switch and have the other side do two

Interrupt the speaker

Give the speaker advice before they are done

Give the speaker a blank look

Be bored

 Discuss and reviewIntro a upset scout and have them work on managing solve their issue

9:45 Great leaders are  Slides 17-26

 ZULU Game 10 balls for each group / need bagInstructions to helpers

The object of this game is to get as many balls moving among your patrols members  

Did you have fun?  What did you learn from this game?

What rules does a communication play in the game?

If you had to do this again what would you do differently? Done with this slide presentation 

10.:15 Troops Organization chart 

10:30Individual positions

Quiz on who does what Who reports to who 

11:00 Who me game 

11:20 depends on number of scouts

If we need a filler pull up Stages of team development on power point 

11:20 lunch

With in each Patrol eat and discuss three goals(could be less) you would like to see the troop work on

11:45 have one member of each patrol make a presentation  

Scoutmaster thoughts

Welcome to WordPress.com.

This is an experiment for us in Troop 66. I would like to use this communications vehicle to get information out to and feedback in from my Assistant Scoutmasters in the Troop.

Here is a link to the calendar for your reference

Topics to Cover in this first post:

1. Court of Honor
2. Junior Leader Training
3. Adult assignment to Youth Leaders
4. Advanced Scout Skills Coordinator
5. Feedback on this Blog

Court of Honor

Friday, 9/21 - We will need adults to participate in the Awards and Recognition session of this event. If you are interested please send an email to Mark Carioscio or Patrick McQuade.

Junior Leader Training (JLT)

Saturday, 9/22 - We need adult leaders to participate in the training session. This is a great opportunity to teach the boys how to be leaders. Marc White is the JLT coordinator. He can use help in making presentations, crowd control, and explaining to the boys their roles and responsibilies. I can’t emphasize enough how important this session is. All Scouts First Class and above are required to attend. Please email Marc if you can attend and help out.

Adult Assignment to Youth Leaders

Last year we assigned adults to help all of the youth leaders. We plan to do that again this year. If you can help in this area, it will be greatly appreciated. This gives you a chance to understand how the troop works and will also give you a great opportunity to make a difference in the success of the youth leadership of the troop. If you have a particular area you are interested in let me know. I will be updated the Youth Leadership Roles and will be assigning adults to them. Stay tuned for more. Here is a link to the assignments from last year.

Advanced Scout Skills Coordinator

In a recent Scoutmaster Conference, I received feedback from a Scout that there weren’t enough younger Scouts to teach given the number of older Scouts. This makes sense given our rank distribution in the troop. An idea I had was to have an adult be the Advanced Scout Skills Coordinator. This role would be to work with one or more of the most Senior Scouts (JASMs) and to come up with advanced skills for the older Scouts who aren’t teaching. An example would be Advanced First Aid during First Aid Month. Let me know your thoughts on this and let me know if you would be interested in helping out.

Feedback on this Blog

So please reply to this blog with your comments. In many ways this is like an email, however, all of the responses can be seen at once as well as the threads of the conversation. Let’s try this out and let me know what you think.

Mike Carioscio

Mr. C