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