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Twin
Arrow
National Youth Leadership Training
Twin
Arrow is:
A highly structured program
Is based on on month is the life of a Troop.
Leadership development - Fills some requirements for rank advancement
Twin Arrow
is not:
Scout craft
- Summer camp
- Merit badges
- Hiking
- Aquatics
R & R
- Fishing
- Hiking
- C.O.P.E.
The Twin
ArrowTraining Conference is becoming:
A program based upon The Boy Scout Handbook.
A program based upon the Junior Leader Handbook.
A program in based upon Woods Wisdom.
A program including Ethics In Action, Leave No Trace Camping
and & G.P.S. training.
The Twin Arrow
Training Conference in broad outline.
The Twin Arrow
Training Conference is Council training provided to supplement leadership
development provided by the home Scoutmaster.
What is the
role of the Scoutmaster in the Troop? (To train Youth Leaders)
Where should the Scoutmasters actually do their work? (Wherever
they meet with scouts)
Scoutmaster’s
Youth Leader Training Kit - A one day training and is basically
Scout craft
Twin Arrow
Leader Training Conference - A one week training and is basically
Leadership
Let us take
a quick look at the historical development of the Twin Arrow Training
Conference.
1993 JLTC revised to include Ethics In Action, Reflections, and
Safe Haven.
1974 Troop Leader Development – Introduction of Leadership Skills.
Brownsea Double Two - mostly used Scoutcraft Skills.
2005 - Brand new syllabus with start of the art leadership training.
Looking at
the Junior Leader Training Conference of today.
Weeklong experience
Provides a toolbox of resources, skills and techniques for Troop
leadership.
To increase Scout craft skills but ONLY as a means of demonstrating
and practicing leadership skills.
To assist home Scoutmaster to provide a quality program (especially
if the Scoutmaster is Wood Badge Trained)
To give scouts an opportunity to share experiences with other (different)
troop leaders – both youth and adult.
Scouts are assigned to patrols based upon age, rank, home troop,
and district.
General Principles:
The principle responsibility and privilege of a Scoutmaster is to
TRAIN YOUTH LEADERS, therefore the Twin Arrow Conference is a “supplement”
to the Scoutmaster’s training.
The participants
represent their home troops. This means properly uniformed with
home troop insignia. No special troop insignia is given at Twin
Arrow, only a neckerchief and patrol medallion of the patrol the
participant is placed in.
Who should
attend the Twin Arrow Conference?
The Twin Arrow Conference is designed for Troop Youth Leaders, ALL
TROOP YOUTH LEADERS.
It is important that the attendees do not attend prematurely EITHER
BY AGE OR RANK.
THEY SHOULD BE 13 YEARS OF AGE AND BE FIRST CLASS OR ABOVE.
Twin Arrow
Conference recognition.
Twin Arrow PATCH (one of the few insignia, which can be worn on
an adult uniform).
A certificate of completion
A personal evaluation of leadership skills by the Twin Arrow staff
In summary,
the Twin Arrow Conference experience is:
Scoutcraft skills involving Cooking, Pioneering, and Camping. Leadership
Development Skills represented by start of the art, modern leadership
skill presentations, and a few highlights of the course are the
Overnight camp, the course feast and the Ballista battle.
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Twin
Arrow Conference
Twin Arrow
Conference will be held at Camp Twin Echo All Scouts who are at
least First Class Rank and 13 years old are eligible to participate.
Scouts must have both Scoutmaster and parent approval.
This NYLT conference replaces the
JLTC course with new and exciting skills and methods. The staff
is already preparing to present the course, supplies are being ordered
and camp has been booked and prepared. All we need are 128 deicated
young future leaders to take part in this Youth Training. Fill out
an application located on the Greater
Pittsburgh, Twin Arrow Web Page, and send it in beacuse this
course usually fills up early.
30 day meeting
is being planned soon.
For more information
call Michael Maxwell, Staff Advisor (412)-325-7977
Print the application
(pdf) to sign up for this great training opportunity for youth leaders.
A $25 deposit is due with the application
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