New educational programme of Czech scouts for 21st century

Junak - Association of Scouts and Guides Czech Republic

Kontakty:• program@skaut.cz• www.skaut.cz/program

Who we are?

Junák – Association of Scouts and Guides Czech Republic

•45.000 of members, in around 2300 units, around 15.000 adults (leaders, oldscouts…)•Because scout organisation was interdicted for 40 years during communists our programme is different from other scout associations in Europe – is too traditional, less attractive, skills are not so practical for today world, „historical village“•National level propose to units programme framework with support tools (books, manual…)

What is this project?

We decided to adapt our programme to 21st century

•To be efficient in achieving to our educationals objectives•To not loose young people from reason on non-attractive programme•To increase the quality of our units and educational impact•To be modern organisation interested for new members

What is „new programme“?

New programme is returning to the „rootage“…

• All elementals of scouting stay the same:• Our mission (our objectives in education of young people)• Principles (which are our values for education)• Skaut method (how we do our programme)

• It´s necessary to go back on „bottom“ if we would like to build „new house“

• Tools have to arise from basics, we recognized that people don´t know well basics

What is „new programme“?

... and addaptation of our tools to today time

• Today time and today young people are different than in time of our childhood

• They are interested in different things, society and technology is different

• Our tools for achieving of educational objectives have to react on this change and have to be interest and attractive for young people

Which tools are used for age 11-15 years

Support personal development

• Educational objectives through all ages• Activities for personal development

• Handbook for personal development (four levels)

• Motivation tools (symbolic framework, card game stickers, prestigious exam…)

• Handbook for new members

How to support the personal development?

Development of key competences

• Areas and subjects are based on key competences (we answered ourselves how young people should look like after scout education)

• Manager´s competences• Psychological competences• Environmental competences• Spiritual competences• Skills and knowledge

• Areas and subjects make structure of educational objective comprehensible for leaders and young people

KEY COMPETENCES

• Manager´s competences

• Psychological competences

• Environmental competences

• Spiritual competences

• Skills and knowledge

AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT

How to support the personal development?

Areas and subjects of development

• 6 „relation-based“ areas of development • What I can and know• Who I am• My fried• My home• World around us• Nature around us

• 27 subjects of development divided into areas• Crisis situation• Interconnected world• My team• My citizeship• …

How to support the personal development?

Example: Nature in our programme

• One of six areas is „Nature around us“• Staying in nature• Perception of nature• Discovering of nature• Value of nature• Careful treatment

• Methodological book for leader• Some necessary theory• Educational goals and activities for all age levels• Practical activities for patrol and unit

Ex

How to support the personal development?

• In each subject is proposal of activities for development. It´s really activities („I will go and will do something“)

• Activities are chosen by the child, some of them are obligatory

• Feedback on activity is make by three people (the child himself and by two from this choose: scout leader, young leader, friend, family or specialist)

Activities choosed by child

How to support the personal development?

Example: Nature around us – for 3nd level (13-14 years)

•Staying in nature – choose one of activities:• On the place with all-around-view I will find my position on map and I will

describe my surroundings (names of hills, villages etc.)• I will visit one nature-protected area which I don´t know. I know how to behave

here and I will follow it.• On school expedition or expedition with my friends I will help to others with

packaging of bag, choosing of place for camping and with tent construction• I will prepare and lead building of on camp construction• With map, book etc. I will find in country-side three (or more) interesting places

(castles, mountain, view-tower…). I will visit these places. I will tell about them to my patrol or I will prepare expedition for patrol on one of these places.

How to support the personal development?

Personal handbook with attractive design• Format A6 for each level (4 books)• Fullcolor printing• Symbolic framework (four elements or fantasy)

Are we able to give to young people the education in attractive design?

Four elements as symbolic framework

• General but still interesting symbolic framework• One concrete adaptation (fantasy world) but it´s possible to change by simple way• Adventure world where is a lot of heroes, person and creatures. • It´s possible to go through on four levels, by four tracks (for each age etape one) motivated by four elements:

• Earth → Earth Track• Water → Water Track• Air → Air Track• Fire → Fire Track

Are we able to give to young people the education in attractive design?

Choose the person and get some „helpers“

• Child choose the person as which he will go through adventure world of four elements• Support in form of sticker (pre-printed or possible to print individually)• For reaching of all subjects from one area they can get an „helper“ – positive creature from adventure world

How to motivate children for personal developement?

Sacculus – scout card game as motivation tool• Motivation tool for personal developement• Everybody have the base of game. Next cards is possible to get only for reaching of points in personal handbook• Game with fantasy legend, word of hobbits, elfs and another creatures• Bigger personal developement in reality means more possibilities in game

How to motivate children for personal developement?

Give some awards to succesful children

•Only for children which finish one of four levels (motivation for finalisation of levels)•Prestigious exam

• one hour of vigils• sunshine on hill• returning back to the camp in day or in night• 24 hours of silence, hunger and solitary• 24 hours on the three• 2 days with nothing

How to integrate new members into scounting?

Handbook for new-comers

•For new-comers in age 10-11 years•They come from previous age (8-10) or from outside•The main subjects

• Scouting• My unit and patrol• Basic scout skills

•Possible to modify it by unit