Every Friday five posts from Scoutmaster worth reviewing. This week the subject is Patrol Development
Making Patrols Work
... integrating the patrols by age is important. Any Scoutmaster would
admit that encouraging Scouts of different ages to work together is an
ongoing challenge. Here are some methods that you may find effective.
Patrol Outings
Our next outing will be a hybrid Troop/Patrol outing at our Scout Camp. Find out how it went over with the Scouts.
Creating Functional Boy Scout Patrols
Our troop's patrols are organized by age and don't function well. We
basically have two patrols: the "chaos" patrol of 11- and 12-year old
boys and the "I'm too cool" patrol of older Scouts. How can we create
functional patrols where the older Scouts teach the younger ones?
The Patrol System
We must keep constantly in mind, though, that "The object of the Patrol
Method"—as Baden-Powell says"is not so much to save trouble for the
Scoutmaster, as to give responsibility to the boy-since this is the
very best of all means of developing character.
The Patrol Method
The formation of the boys into Patrols of from six to eight and
training them as separate units each under its own responsible leader
is the key to a good Troop.
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