Avon Scouts Adult Training

Module 13
Growing the Movement (Section Leaders)  - Section Leaders and            Supporters

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Description Planning and achieving growth of Scouting in your Group and Section.

 

 

Required by

Section Leader

Section Supporters

 

 

Relevant to

Section Leaders

Assistant Leaders

Section Supporters

Section Assistants

 

 

 

Learning methods available

Course

Small groups

 

 

Aim  To cover ways in which an adult working in a Section can work with their Group Scout Leader (GSL) or others to plan and implement growth in their Section.

 

 

Topics that this module covers are

The progressive nature of the programme

Problems to individuals moving on and possible solutions

Recruitment and retention of young people

The Six Step Approach to adult recruitment

Growth/development plans

 

 

 

This means

Ensuring transfer between Sections.

Devising and implementing development plans for the Group and Section.

Co-operating with other agencies outside Scouting.

 

 

 

Questions

Do as many young people as possible transfer from your Section to the next?

Do you know how to recruit, support and retain adults?

Can you produce and use a development plan to ensure that Scouting grows in your Section?

 

 

 

To validate this module the learner will need to complete two of the following

Work with others to produce and implement a development plan for your Section.

Identify new Members who have joined Scouting as direct result of action you have undertaken.  Explain the actions they took to enable this to happen.

Explain the transfer methods between Sections, their role in Moving On, Membership Awards and age range flexibility, and how they could improve the methods of transfer of young people from one section to the next.

Any other ideas, subject to agreement with Training Adviser.

 

 

 

 

Note :-  The information on this page has been copied from the new Adult Training publications, the Adult’s Personal File and the Training Adviser’s guide.  The suggestion list of questions that a Training Advisers may use to Validate a module has not been include from the training adviser’s guide.

 

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Module 13
Growing the Movement (Section Leaders)  - Section Leaders and            Supporters

 

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