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Objectives
• Implement activities utilizing the Girl Scout Mission, Keys to Leadership and 3 Processes: Girl-led, Learned by doing and Cooperative learning.
• Ability to adapt coaching techniques to build leadership skills in girls.
• Understand the developmental characteristics of older girls and know how to support them.
• Feel comfortable in guiding girls through earning badges and journeys utilizing council resources, events and trips.
• Understand the requirements and can coach girls through the processes to earn the Bronze, Silver and Gold Award.
The Great Eight Steps to Leading a Troop of Older Girls
• Step 1: Review the Girl Scout basics• Step 2: Prepare yourself for tweens and teens• Step 3: Explore the broader range of opportunities• Step 4: Reemphasize what makes Girls Scouts cool• Step 5: Meet with your girls to define your direction• Step 6: Go for the Gold (and Silver and Bronze)• Step 7: Dig in and plan your year• Step 8: Keep the Girl Scouts connection year-round
Ensuring the Health and Safety of Girls
• Emergencies• A Safe Space• Volunteers• Transportation• Meeting Locations• Forms• Council Approval• Activity Insurance• Money Earning
Prepare Yourself for Tweens and Teens
Prepare Yourself for Tweens and TeensUnderstand developmental milestones: • Middle Childhood (9-11)• Young Teens (12-14)• Teenagers (15-18)
Understand their developmental needs:• Emotional/social• Thinking/learning• Support you can give
Your First Role is to Listen
• Value their voice.• Help them connect intent and action.• Don’t over-praise.• Make a compliment sandwich.• Reframe conflict instead of ignoring it.• Let them have a bad day.
Explore the Broader Range of Opportunities• Ride horses, shoot arrows or paddle a canoe.• Go to Worlds of Fun, Starlight or a Royals game.• Create a Take Action project.• Mentor Daisies during their very first campout.• Learn about conservation in Peru.
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And Girl Scouting is not just knowing ... but doing ... not just doing, but being.
– Juliette G. Low
Reemphasize What Makes Girl Scouts Cool• Studies show what’s important
to scouts are the same things important to student-athletes and other traditional “cool” groups.
• Provide tools to communicate the essential coolness of Girl Scouts to others.
• It’s the kind of cool that lasts forever!
What’s Cool About Girl Scouts (In Their Own Words)• Friendships you can trust. • Fun experiences. • The opportunity to make a real impact.• We’re in charge of what we choose to do.• The chance to try new things all the time.• Going on adventures around the world.• Camping trips, even if it’s way out of our comfort zone. • It helps with your leadership skills.• It challenges you to be a better person.• It can influence job opportunities and college.
Built-in “Cool” Factor• Be yourself
• Never Judge
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• Learn about what’s “big” and why
• Famous Girl Scouts
Inspirational Girl Scouts
• Dakota Fanning• Grace Kelley• Katie Couric• Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and
Michele Obama• Queen Latifah• Sally Ride• Sandra Day O’Connor• Susan Wojcicki• Taylor Swift• Fifteen of the 20 women Senators
Meet with Your Girls to Define Your Troop’s DirectionHelp the girls take control:• Encourage research and preparation.• Give each idea equal merit.• Respect different leadership styles. • Encourage them to prioritize activities, not you. • Take reasonable risks. • Work through all the steps.• Let the girls do the work. • Reflect and improve. • Let your girls know you believe in them.
Go for the Gold (and Silver and Bronze) • These are the most prestigious honors the Girl Scouts
can bestow on a girl. • Awards are more than a chance to bling up the vest;
they’re a chance to change the world. • Talk up the awards early and support them when
they're old enough to go for it.
Every badge you earn is tied up to your motto.
– Juliette G. Low
Award Requirements
Bronze Award for Juniors:• 20+ hours per girl as a team• Completion of Junior Journey and Take Action project
Silver Award for Cadettes: • 50+ hours per girl as a team (2-4) or individually• Completion of Cadette Journey and Take Action project
Gold Award for Seniors and Ambassadors: • 80+ hours individually• Completion of Silver Award and Senior/Ambassador
Journey OR two Senior/Ambassador Journeys
How will you inspire your girls to Go Gold?
Planning Your Year• Leading older girls is different
• Perfect doesn’t exist
• Learn about what’s “big” and why
• Girls define the experience
• Brainstorming Tips
Dig In and Plan Your Year
• Let the girls be in charge, but preplanning as a group can make it easier.
• Take advantage of Girl Scout resources:• Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting• GSKSMO website• GSKSMO social media• Service Unit support
• Explore the Journeys.
A Word about Journeys
• Some troops love Journeys; some find them a little overwhelming.
• There are many ways to achieve a Journey.
• Find the solution that works best for your troop and keeps them moving towards a Gold Award.
Keep the Girl Scouts Connection Year-Round
Use your Girl Scout support system!
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