Practical tips for enhancing scouting and guiding activities. Emphasizes hands-on learning through practical demonstrations rather than theoretical teaching, importance of regular troop meetings, recognizing each scout's unique talents, providing leadership opportunities and patrol system.
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Tips to improve Scouting and guiding activities and motivate
Scouts and Guides enjoy things by learning by doing. Anything taught theoretically would bore them, demonstrate and let them try things.
Follow a patrol system, teach patrol leaders, and let the Patrol Leader Boy teach the rest of the patrol members (Boys).
Conduct a quiz / first raise with small gifts to motivate and make it more enjoyable.
Conduct troop meetings regularly. When meetings are conducted less frequently/randomly, they lose interest and forget the things taught previously.
Every child has his/her own unique ability to do things, identifying them and giving them the opportunity to bring out their talent. By doing it, the child’s confidence will increase.
Go at a slow pace. Do not try to teach too many things at once.
Give every child an opportunity to be a leader for different roles based on the boy’s capability.
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