Programme Developers Summit, Jambville 2010

New handbookand progressive scheme

for scout age in Czech Republic

Junak - Association of Scouts and Guides Czech Republic

•Kontakty:• novyprogram@skaut.cz• www.skaut.cz/novyprogram

Which tools are used for age 11-15 years

Support personal development

•Educational objectives through all ages•Activities for personal development

• Handbook for personal development (four levels)

• Motivation tools (symbolic framework, card game stickers, prestigious exam…)

• Handbook for new members

How to support the personal development?

Development of key competences

•Areas and subjects are based on key competences (we answered ourselves how young people should look like after scout education)

• Manager´s competences• Psychological competences• Environmental competences• Spiritual competences• Skills and knowledge

•Areas and subjects make structure of educational objective comprehensible for leaders and young people

KEY COMPETENCES

• Manager´s competences

• Psychological competences

• Environmental competences

• Spiritual competences

• Skills and knowledge

AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT

How to support the personal development?

Areas and subjects of development

•6 „relation-based“ areas of development • What I can and know• Who I am• My fried• My home• World around us• Nature around us

•27 subjects of development divided into areas• Crisis situation• Interconnected world• My team• My citizeship• …

How to support the personal development?

• In each subject is proposal of activities for development. It´s really activities („I will go and will do something“)

• Activities are chosen by the child, some of them are obligatory

• Feedback on activity is make by three people (the child himself and by two from this choice: scout leader, young leader, friend, family or specialist)

Activities choosed by child

How to support the personal development?

Personal handbook with attractive design•Format A6 for each level (4 books)•Fullcolor printing•Symbolic framework (four elements or fantasy)

Are we able to give to young people the education in attractive design?

Four elements as symbolic framework

•General but still interesting symbolic framework•One concrete adaptation (fantasy world) but it´s possible to change by simple way•Adventure world where is a lot of heroes, person and creatures. •It´s possible to go through on four levels, by four tracks (for each age etape one) motivated by four elements:

• Earth → Earth Track• Water → Water Track• Air → Air Track• Fire → Fire Track

Are we able to give to young people the education in attractive design?

Choose the person and get some „helpers“

•Child choose the person as which he will go through adventure world of four elements•Support in form of sticker (pre-printed or possible to print individually)•For reaching of all subjects from one area they can get an „helper“ – positive creature from adventure world

How to motivate children for personal developement?

Sacculus – scout card game as motivation tool•Motivation tool for personal developement•Everybody have the base of game. Next cards is possible to get only for reaching of points in personal handbook•Game with fantasy legend, word of hobbits, elfs and another creatures•Bigger personal developement in reality means more possibilities in game

How to motivate children for personal developement?

Give some awards to succesful children

•Only for children which finish one of four levels (motivation for finalisation of levels)•Prestigious exam

• one hour of vigils• sunshine on hill• returning back to the camp in day or in night• 24 hours of silence, hunger and solitary• 24 hours on the three• 2 days with nothing

How to integrate new members into scounting?

Handbook for new-comers

•For new-comers in age 10-11 years•They come from previous age (8-10) or from outside•The main subjects

• Scouting• My unit and patrol• Basic scout skills

•Possible to modify it by unit

Where we continue now?

New progressive scheme for cubs

Where we continue now?

New progressive scheme for cubs

Where we continue now?

New progressive scheme for cubs