Instructional Methods For Scouts - Who Instructs?

If adults are doing all the instruction they are denying their Scouts the opportunity to develop some important skills.

Our role is to empower our youth leadership to instruct by training them in the methods of Scout instruction. All of the skills and methods discussed here can be applied to instructing the methods themselves.

Gather your youth leadership together and use these methods to train them in Scout Instruction. Give them alot of support and encouragement the first few times they instruct and they will quickly develop into an effective team. Once they have some mastery of the skills and intentions make it a practice to instruct only when invited to do so by your youth leadership.

Instructional Methods for Scouts

1. Introduction
2. Round Robins
3. Guided Discovery
4. Coach and Pupil
5. Kim’s Game and Variations
6. Circle Up!
7. Preparing
8. Who Instructs?

All these posts as a PDF.

 

Comments

[Walter Underwood]

This is great stuff! Concise and easy to apply. Two suggestions: add a master article or links to the methods in the Introduction, and fix the download link for the PDF.

I have been thinking of focusing our Troop Leadership Training on teaching skills, and you've just made that *much* easier to do.

Thanks from Troop 14 in Palo Alto, CA.