Houens Odde, Denmark27-30.04.2006

PROGRAMME PROGRAMME DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

SUMMIT SUMMIT

Workshop on

making the system work

Activities, Section Methods and Progressive Scheme

-  To know how to adapt the elements of the Scout

Method to the characteristics of each age section

-  To understand the concept of activity as a flow of

experiences

-  To identify different kinds of activities and how

they are related with the educational objectives- To identify the characteristics of an educational

activity - To understand the concept of progression based

on educational objectives

Objectives:

3. Methods Progressive Scheme Section Methods Activities

1. Setting Goals Final Educational Objectives Areas of Personal Growth Educational Proposal

2. Organising Age Sections Section Educational Objectives

Renewed Approach to Programme

Definition

• An activity is a flow of experiences which offer a

young person the possibility to acquire knowledge,

skills and attitudes corresponding to one or more

educational objectives

Tool box 007

Educationalobjective

Activity

Experience

Activities

Scouting offers young people objectives to achieve

This enables:

* to develop all the dimensions of the personality

* to serve as a basis on which to assess their personal growth

* to establish a framework by which each young person can achieve that purpose in accordance with their age and individual character

We carry out activities to reach our objectives

• The educational objectives are achieved through everything the young people do within Scouting and outside it

• The young people are the main players in the activities.

Educationalobjective

Activity

Experience

Activities

Activities as a flow of experiences

The young people learn through the experiencesthey gain from the activities

ACTIVITY* what is happening externally the action which involves everyone.* a tool which generates different situations.

EXPERIENCE* it happens within each person. * it is what each person gets from the action

The experience is a personal relationship between each young person and reality.

As leaders we cannot affect, manipulate or foresee itwith any degree of certainty.

But we can influence the activities, to try to make them generate or facilitate experiences.

Experiences are personal

Activities and Objectives

Carrying out an activity does not automatically lead to the achievement of the desired objective

The activities help to achieve the educational objectives

CUMULATIVELYSEQUENTIALLYGRADUALLY

FixedUsually take a single form and generally relate to the same subject.

Activities can be

VariableTake many different forms and refer to very different subjects, depending on the young people´s interests.

Fixed and Variable

Fixed Activities Variable Activities

Need to be carried out continually to createthe right atmospherefor the Scout Method.

Are not repeated, unless the young people particularly want to and then only after a certain length of time.

Contribute in a general way to achievingthe educational objectives

Contribute to achieving one or more clearly specified educational objectives.

The extremes

Can make for a “closed” Unit, which is self-centred.

Runs the risk of de-characterizing,the Scout Unit.

A PROGRAMME WITH TOOMANY FIXED ACTIVITIES

A PROGRAMME WITH TOO MANY VARIABLE ACTIVITIES

Affects the overall educational atmosphere.

Can affect the young people´s harmonious development.

May make the programme becoming obsolete.

May turn the programme into activity for its own sake.

Some fixed activities

Camps and outings

Patrol meetings

Games and play

Unit meetings

• Challenging

• Useful

• Rewarding

• Attractive

Variable activities should be

• Manual techniques and skills

• Knowledge and protection of nature

• Human rights and democracy

• Education for peace and development

• Sport

• Different kinds of arts

• Community service

• Family life

• Intercultural understanding

Variable activities can involve