TRAINER’S DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE  

Who?     You are invited to participate!

What?     To be a trainer for your unit.  Cost is $10

When?   See Calendar page

Why?      Because every Boy deserves a Trained Leader!  Every Leader deserves to be Trained.

The Pack, Troop, and Venturing Trainer:

Under the direction of the committee chairman, the Trainer helps leaders and parents understand purposes, policies, and procedures of the Scouting program.

The Trainer conducts, or facilitates, the training of leaders and parents in the unit. The Trainer promotes training to help leaders learn to plan and conduct meetings and activities. The Trainer orients parents and leaders and guides pack leaders in carrying out their specific position responsibilities.

The Trainer is a registered unit position and is a voting member of the unit committee. Regardless of the size of the unit committee, every unit should have one of its committee members registered as a Trainer.   Your position will be invaluable in obtaining the New Centennial Quality Awards Program which requires an increase in the percentage of Leaders Trained from 2006 year for the 2007 year.  Here’s your opportunity to serve!

Trainer Development Conference:

Scouters responsible for training may be members of district or council training teams who train leaders in Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, and Venturing. They may also be Scouters who train commissioners and district committees. They may be pack trainers. The Trainer Development Conference is designed to develop and improve the skills of both veteran and prospective trainers.

The Trainer Development Conference incorporates numerous contemporary training techniques and emphasizes the importance of experiential learning, or “learning by doing.” In most instances, the training sessions not only demonstrate good training methods, but give participants an opportunity to interact and practice what they have learned.

Kathy J. Tucker

District Training Committee ~ TDC Chairperson