1. Working with the SPICES & Personal Progression
Canadian Path Information Sharing session – Part 3
Working with the SPICES & Personal Progression
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2. 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

3. Spices review https://youtu.be/FebN7wtQqS0
st10-bs-spices-review-questions.pdf
5 minutes

4. SPICES – Review Soccer Ball
5 minutes

5. 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”
5 minutes

6. 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”
5 minutes

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

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Wrap up and review
10 minutes