Troop Committee Training

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Troop Committee Training

• What to Do!
• Select your committee 6-8 members
• Select your committee chair
• Make name tag different
• Make sure you have a name tag
• Begin Pre-Activity work
• Search newspaper for all items that illustrate
  some point of the Scout Oath, Law, motto, or
  slogan. Tear or cut them out of the paper.
  Specify your committee and what each article
  represents (Oath, Law, motto, slogan)

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Welcome to the Boy Scouts of America

• Adventure, learning, challenge, responsibility
  the promise of Scouting is all this and more. Are
  you ready for the adventure to begin?

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Troop Committee Training

• Training Schedule
• Minutes Activity
• 20 Preopening Activities
• 10 Troop Committee Challenge Training
• 20 Puzzle Pieces The Big Picture
• 25 The Role of the Troop Committee
• 60 Roles and Responsibilities Training
• Troop Committee Members by Position
• 40 Delivering the Promise
• 5 Close the Training

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Troop Committee Training

• Introduction
• Scout Oath
• Scout Law
• Scout Motto
• Scout Slogan
• The Organization of Scouting

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Troop Committee Training

• Scout Oath or Promise
• On my honor I will do my best
• To do my duty to God and my country
• And to obey the Scout Law
• To help other people at all times
• To keep myself physically strong,
• Mentally awake,
• And morally straight.

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Troop Committee Training

• Scout Law
• A Scout Is
• Trustworthy
• Loyal
• Helpful
• Friendly
• Courteous
• Kind

• Obedient
• Cheerful
• Thrifty
• Brave
• Clean
• Reverent

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• Scout Motto
• Be Prepared.
• Scout Slogan
• Do a Good Turn Daily.

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• Review Pre-Activity Work
• Headline your articles
• Identify where the article fits
• Why?
• Review the aims and the eight methods of Scouting

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Troop Committee Training

• Boy Scout Aims
• Growth in moral strength and character
• Participating citizenship
• Development of physical, mental, and emotional
  fitness

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Troop Committee Training
Boy Scout Methods

• Ideals
• Scout Oath-Law- motto-slogan
• Patrols
• Peer groups-elected representation-activities
• Outdoors
• All outdoor programs
• Advancement
• Self-reliance-ability to help others-challenge

• Adult Association
• Image-role model-example
• Personal Growth
• Good Turn-service projects- religious emblems
• Leadership Development
• Leadership skills and-practice-citizenship
• Uniform
• Commitment to aims-identity

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The Organization of Scouting

• Administration
• National Council
• Region
• Local council
• Scouting district
• Chartered organization
• Adult Leaders
• District committee
• Unit commissioner
• Troop committee
• Parents

• Youth Leaders
• The patrol leaders council
• Youth leaders
• Patrols
• The Scout

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Troop Committee Training

• The Puzzle
• Each committee gets a puzzle.
• Distribute the pieces equally amongst the
  committee members.
• Within each committee, each member reads the back
  of their puzzle piece and as a committee
  determines what each piece represents - use the
  Label the Puzzle worksheet
• Complete the puzzle

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Troop Committee Training

• Puzzle Piece 1
• The Scout
• Puzzle Piece 2
• The Patrol
• Puzzle Piece 3
• Youth Leaders
• Puzzle Piece 4
• Patrol Leaders Council
• Puzzle Piece 5
• The Scoutmaster
• Puzzle Piece 6
• Troop Committee

• Puzzle Piece 7
• Chartered Organization
• Puzzle Piece 8
• Unit Commissioner
• Puzzle Piece 9
• District Committee
• Puzzle Piece 10
• Scouting District
• Puzzle Piece 11
• Local Council
• Puzzle Piece 12
• National Council

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Troop Committee Training

• The Troop Committee, which is the troops board
  of directors, supports the troops adult and
  youth leaders in delivering a quality program to
  the troops Scouts.

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Troop Committee Training

• What does each member do to fulfill this role.
• Buzz Group Discussion
• How do you do that?

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Troop Committee Training

• Troop Committee Challenge Game
• Choose a game piece that represents your role in
  the committee
• Start at the Trailhead
• Starting player selects a card from the top and
  reads the question or situation to the player on
  the left.
• Correct answer advances the number of spaces on
  the card
• Incorrect answer player holding card reads
  correct answer, other player does not move
• Used cards go the person with that committee
  responsibility
• Arrow spaces i.e. if at the bottom of the rope
  bridge move to the space at the top and vice
  versa
• Occupied spaces move to the next available
  space
• Take a break player landing on Take a Break
  selects the Take a Break card and reads it
  aloud to the group, then does what the card says

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Troop Committee Training

• If you understand the responsibilities of all
  troop committee members, you will enhance your
  ability to
• Support the Scoutmaster and the Scouts
• Improve the focus of the troop committee
• Foster the Aims of Scouting
• Become an influence to help cause such growth
  values to take root in Scouts

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Troop Committee Training

• Exercise Let me tell you what I do.
• The importance of each troop committee role
• The many responsibilities of the troop committee
• The planning that will be required to help ensure
  success of the program
• The continued nurturing required to help ensure
  success of the program
• The fun that everyone can have working and
  playing together
• The excellence of the Scouting program

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• Baden-Powell Delivering the Promise
• How will you deliver the promise after this
  training is over?
• Troop Committee Agenda
• How would your agenda differ?
• Case Studies
• What roles are responsible for what in each case
  study?

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• Valuable Resources
• Unit Commissioner
• District Chairperson
• District Executive
• Council Service Center
• Web Site
• Training Evaluation