Saturday April 10, 2010
7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Wausau Homes Scout Center
Course Directors:
Larry Foltz
715-428-2779
Mark Larson
715-892-2218
Staff Advisor:
Michael Pazdernik
715-581-6312
The Trainer's EDGE
Training is an essential part of Scouting. This new training course, The Trainer’s EDGE, will better prepare trainers how to conduct effective training. The course provides an opportunity to “train the trainer” on behaviors and resources while offering hands-on experience in methods and media. This course will be especially useful for those serving on the training staffs of National Youth Leader Training (NYLT), Wood Badge, and other leader-specific training courses. The Trainer’s EDGE replaces the Trainer Development Conference as the required train‐the‐trainer course for NYLT and Wood Badge staffs.
Course Details:
- Dates: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
- Course Cost: $10.00
- Location: Wausau Homes Scout Center, 3511 Camp Phillips Rd, Weston, WI
Purpose:
The purpose of the Trainer’s EDGE course is to provide and help develop the platform skills of a trainer. It supplements the practice offered through NYLT and Wood Badge staff development, with a focus on the participant, while raising the level of skill a trainer brings to the staff experience but is open to all Samoset Council registered Scout leaders that wish to work on improving their training and communication skills. Only practice can polish these skills! This course provides that opportunity!
Who should come?
- Youth trainers for NYLT, Venturing, Roundtable, Order of the Arrow, and Summer Camp
- Senior and Assistant Senior Patrol Leaders
- District trainers in Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing
- Council trainers for NYLT, Wood Badge, and all other training courses and sessions such as ACES, BALOO, Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills, Leave no Trace, and OWL.
- Commissioners - Unit, District, Assistant District, and Roundtable
- Any Scout Leader who wants to learn to communicate ideas better
What you will learn:
- Why, how we train leaders, and train effectively
- How adults and youth learn
- What is important about communication
- Characteristics of a good trainer
- How to plan training
- What kind of arrangements do you need to make
- What kind of technology works best in any given situation
- The latest in training methods
- How to get that EDGE in whatever you do
