Working with the SPICES & Personal Progression Canadian Path Information Sharing session – Part 3 Working with the SPICES & Personal Progression Slide Number

Introduction “As Scouters we facilitate a youth program that functions mainly in Lodges, Lairs and Patrols giving Scouts formal and informal leadership opportunities” “As Scouters we use the Program Planning Guide. We facilitate rather than deliver great, safe, challenging adventures using program maps, outdoor adventure skills and other resources with our Scouts” “youth are aware of their own personal growth and progression” 1 minute

Spices review https://youtu.be/FebN7wtQqS0 http://wiki.scouts.ca/en/SPICES   st10-bs-spices-review-questions.pdf 5 minutes

SPICES – Review Soccer Ball 5 minutes

Personal Progression “Not what you’ve done, what you are going to do” “As Scouters, we enable youth to showcase personal progression and skill development to parents” https://youtu.be/x0hiiv_wf58 5 minutes

Personal Achievement badges “The youth should know what they did to earn their badges” “As Scouters, we understand the role of badges and recognise learning and personal progression appropriately” https://youtu.be/gHNzZadR3YQ 5 minutes

Personal Achievement Badges Review youths’ personal progression Achieve the required Skills Final Review Presentation of the Award 2 minutes

PAB Assignment Pair up with someone Each of you select a badge you would like to work on Take turns going through the process (3 Minutes each) 7 minutes

PAB Review What do you think the role of the parent should be? How do we keep this process manageable 10 minutes

Top Section Award Each Top Section Award contains the following components: Review youths’ personal progression Achieve the required Outdoor Adventure Skill stages Provide the required hours of community service Complete a meaningful service project Final Review Presentation of the Award 5 minutes

Hours of Community Service Top Section Awards Badge Section Award Name Achieved OAS Stages Hours of Community Service Colony North Star Award 5 Pack Seeonee Award 10 15 Troop Chief Scout’s Award 18 30 Company Queen’s Venturer Award 24 60 5 minutes

Personal Progression Our group hasn’t had much success with personal progression badges and top section awards.  We’ve tried to promote it to the youth and the parents but it seems like they mostly prefer to keep scouting to a ‘once a week’ activity and not something they’d necessarily want to do on the ‘off days’.  How do we promote and entice the youth into the personal progression activities? In the past Sections have held badge nights. Would badge nights increase interest? The role of PABs is giving members an opportunity to explore new interests. If a team has a common interest there would be nothing stopping them from creating their own trail card/badge card.  10 minutes

Wrap up and review 10 minutes