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PROGRAMME DEVELOPERS SUMMIT. Houens Odde, Denmark 27-30.04.2006. Workshop on Personal Progression. Objectives: - To explain the concept of personal progression and it’s educational approach - To identify the progressive scheme as a tool based on educational objectives - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Houens Odde, Denmark27-30.04.2006
PROGRAMME PROGRAMME DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
SUMMIT SUMMIT
Workshop on
Personal Progression
Objectives:
- To explain the concept of personal progression
and it’s educational approach
- To identify the progressive scheme as a tool
based on educational objectives
- To list the different components of the
progressive scheme
- To identify the implications for programme
development, dissemination and implementation
“Why worry about individual training?...Because it is the only way by which you can educate.
You can instruct any number of boys, a thousand at a time if you have a loud voice and attractive methods of disciplinary means. But
that is not training – it is not education”
(Aids to Scoutmastership)
What’s personal progression?
Personal progression focuses specially on helping each young person to be consciously and actively involved in his or her own development.
[…] «Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? » «That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,» said the Cat.«I don’t much care where --» said Alice.«Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,» said the Cat.«-- as long as I get somewhere,» Alice added as an explanation.«Oh, you are sure to do that,» said the Cat, «if you only walk long enough.»
What’s the progressive scheme?
The progressive scheme is the
main tool used to support this
element of the Scout Method.
• Focused on each individual
• Considering each person’s strengths
• Based on a set of educational objectives
« Our goal should be to develop, in each young
person, ambition and hope, and the sense
of achievement which will carry him
on to greater ventures » (B.P)
What for?
• to work out a set of personal development
objectives
• to establish how, in concrete terms, he or she
intends to reach those objectives
• to motivate young people to be and to do
better
• to guide young people on
his/her development trail
• to enable young people to discover new skills,
talents or professional opportunities
• to evaluate, recognise and celebrate the
progress made.
• To acquire analysis and
planning routines for
his/her life
What for?
The progressive schemeStructure
• Stages of progression
• Common trail
• Proficiency in areas of personal interest
• Link with the group life
• Evaluating progress
• Publicly recognising process
Arrival Life within the sectionPassage/Departure
Diagnostic/“Contract”
OpportunitiesYouth/adult
relationEvaluation Recognition
The progressive schemeComponents
Law &Promise
Action Nature
PatrolSystem
SymbolicFramework
Personal Progression
Adultesupport
What space in the Scout Method?
Implications for Programme Design
The progressive scheme needs to:
• be conceived with the application of
the Scout Method in mind• be simple and clearly related to
recognisable “milestones”marking
personal progress• be attractive to young people• serve to motivate young people to make progress
in their personal development• be easy for young people to understand and
use with the help of the adult leader
Implications for Programme Design (2)
• make full use of the symbolic framework for
the age section
• be adapted to the age of the young
people
• offer choice to young people
• be sufficiently flexible, while covering
all areas of development, so that the
young people can build their own
personal objectives
Implications for Programme Dissemination
• to be presented clearly to both adult leaders and youth members
• to design special handbooks and other information for each age section:
- introducing the Scout Movement and the
age section
- describing the application of
the Scout Method to that section
- presenting the progressive
scheme
Implications for Programme Dissemination (2)
- explaining how personal educational
objectives are determined through dialogue
with the adult leader
- how they are attained through activities and
life in the group
- how progress is evaluate and
recognised
- describing the proficiency
areas and requirements
Implications for Programme Implementation
• helping the newcomer to discover Scouting
• building self-confidence
• helping the young person to set personal
objectives
• facilitating the young people’s progress
• sustaining motivation and providing support to
overcome difficulties
• ensuring that what is gained is put to use to
enrich the group