Scouting, Volume 38, Number 7, September 1950 Page: 26
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Your Program Notebook, SCOUTING Magazine
and BOYS' LIFE are coordinated to help you. The
Notebook suggests the theme and skills of the month
(cooking) and the Magazines provide how-to-teach
it and how-to-do it ideas for you and your Scouts.
Use the Program Planning Chart and the Notebook
pages as your planning tools — and your "Three
Assistants" will help you achieve better Troop pro-
grams.
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The success of many great Troops lies in this
simple plan. Now is a good time to start it in
your Troop.
On these two pages we offer a simple way to
plan Troop programs. Simple, we repeat, but not
easy. Running a good program in a Troop is far
too important to be easy.
Someone has said "No Scoutmaster plans to fail,
but every Scoutmaster must plan to succeed!"
To help you as you begin the planning for a new
year in your Troop, here is a simple formula based
on the old adage, "Mind your P's and Q's."
Purpose + Participation + Planning — Program.
Yes, it's that simple, and even if you are a new
leader you can follow this method with success.
Where does the Q come in? Well, if you use these
three ingredients, you'll have a QUALITY Program!
1. PURPOSE — What are you trying to do, what's
your goal? A year from now, what do you hope to
have done for (1) the boys (2) the Patrols and
Troop (3) the parents (4) the chartered institution
and (5) the community? Make a little list, talk it
over with your assistants. To know your goal is an
important first step, then you can plan to get there.
2. PARTICIPATION — Give your Scouts a voice
in the planning as well as the carrying out of your
program. That is true democracy, the way we work.
Besides the boys, you can get your Troop Com-
mittee, your Assistants, and even parents to help
in the planning of Troop activities which involve
them. For success in program, "everybody wants
to be in the act." Good ... let 'em in!
3. PLANNING — With your purpose in mind, and
with "Participation" assured, the next step is the
actual "Planning." For full details of this important
job, see the opening pages of your Program Note-
book. The method is summarized on this page.
There are four sources of ideas as you plan your
program, and you should use them all. They are
(1) What your Scouts WANT, (2) What your
Scouts NEED, (3) the suggestions in your Note-
book and Planning Chart, plus (4) The Council
and District Calendar of events affecting your
Program. With these four, planning is easy; there's
always plenty to do.
Now let's have a look at the illustration above
so you can
Meet the Famous "Three Assistants!"
Teaming up with your Handbook for S^jut-
masters and other basic literature, the so called
"Three Assistants" offer a ready source of program
ideas and Scouting skills. Used effectively, they
will give you unfailing success in your program.
Get to know them.
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