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bethkatz17582

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  1. As a woman, wearing my 3 Wood Badge beads (signifying that I have served on Wood Badge staff) seems to work to establish that I'm more than a parent. They came in handy when we did summer camp out of council a few years ago. I'm not a fan of rows of knots, but if you have earned the position or training ones, fill out the paperwork yourself and get it to your training chair or district executive. Many times, no one else is paying attention to what you've earned or whether you want it. I'll put in a plug here for acknowledging your fellow leaders. While someone above mentioned that you
  2. I'm a district training chair. Our council required direct contact leader training last year, so we did multiple extra sessions of SM Specific and IOLS. We also did a test-out day for IOLS. Almost everybody who tried passed, but it wasn't easy. We're doing another one this month. I encourage people to take IOLS, but we have the test-out option. Our council also has an exemption for college students and those in the military below 21. They had been required to do Fast Start and This is Scouting, but now those aren't required. But I think this 92U position will work well for our young
  3. I have yet to manage to follow the provided syllabus. I aim to hit on all the points, but the time schedule is unrealistic given that people want to share experiences and have questions answered. None of the other trainers I work with manage to follow the syllabus exactly either. Then again, I only have twenty years experience teaching at the university level. But in that case, I decide on what I present and how. That makes a huge difference. Nevertheless, I was pleased to see that there *was* a syllabus, and I do try to follow it. I felt much better about what I supposed to cover and how
  4. I'm teaching Den Leader Specific tomorrow morning. The support CD I have has the supporting handouts and the Powerpoint slides. But it doesn't have the syllabus. I have those step-by-step pages, but they were given to me on paper when I first did this.
  5. I have 3 of the 4 boys who started with my son in Tigers in my Webelos I (soon to be II) den. We've added 3 more along the way. In looking back at what worked and what didn't, having parents involved helped. We each chose achievements and electives to prepare. We rotated around to each other's houses for the meetings. It was a time for us to get to know each other as families as well as the boys to get to know each other and the Cub Scout program. I coordinated the meetings but we spread the work load around. Our pack almost evaporated those first two years because the older boys graduat
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