29 August 2008
Girl Scouts Train Online
Posted by admin under: Training .
A recent service unit meeting revealed that the training model currently being used in the Girl Scouts of the USA is being terminated. Currently, you receive a basic orientation, then do overall leadership training, then do a training specific to the level of girl scouting you are in (Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Cadette, or Senior). In order to streamline the training you will still receive a welcoming meeting, but now you will asked to take your training online at http://training.girlscouts.org/. This will give you a basic orientation of what Girl Scouts is about: the history, the promise and law, and resources available for new volunteers.
Strangely, the training site requires you to input a password that you must receive somewhere else. Fortunately for me, the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas tell everyone what their password is so that you can get in and do it. Why not tell everyone? I’d love for non-Girl Scouts to take the training, too, so they can be enticed into getting involved when they see how easy it is and the various positions of support they can choose from. One of my least favorite things about the GSUSA is their bureaucracy and that’s probably the source of the firewall. They like to track everything and everyone so they’ll probably have individual passwords for different councils. In any event, you can get in and check it out.
Additionally, the online training explains what the new leadership focus of the Girl Scout experience is. Cooperative learning makes sense to me. As a Girl Scout and Boy Scout leader I can already see that girls prefer to do things cooperatively, if possible, rather than individually. I have no problem with that. My girls know how to put up their 12 person tent by helping each other. 
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