There are two parts to Wood Badge training: practical - experiential learning during two 3-day weekend sessions, and then application of the leadership skills in your Scouting position. This combination of practicing the skills with fellow participants and applying the skills in your Scouting position is incredibly effective.
A key area of the process is team development and learning to recognize the stages through which developing teams must pass. Participants learn to apply appropriate leadership strategies that enable teams to reach their highest levels of performance. This course will help you understand the full values-based family of Scouting programs as well as discover ways to use the leadership skills to improve your personal and professional life.
Wood Badge gives leaders the skills they need to strengthen Scouting in meaningful ways and deliver a quality program to our youth.
Wood Badge in the United States
The course first came to the United States in 1936. Held at the Schiff Scout Reservation in New Jersey, it still had a strong British flavor, complete with menus heavy on foods that had been boiled for several hours. The Americans were less than enthusiastic, and a war intervened.
In 1948, a revised American course was offered for the first time at Schiff. It was a major success, in spite of rain on 4 of the 9 days. The first four patrol names, which are animals found all over the US, were introduced--Eagle, Bob White, Fox and Beaver, and the course featured a kudu horn. As the years went by, the course focused on scoutcraft, how to teach it to boys, and/or how to run training courses. There have been courses for each of the major program areas - Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity and Exploring.
in the Chattahoochee Council
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