Continuing Education Requirement

Ed Mulholland

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As we move toward mandatory or required training for adult leaders, perhaps we should consider implementing a continuing education requirement. Each leader being required to earn a certain number of CEU's based on their position. CEU's could be earned, for example, by attending Roundtable, a training session, presenting at a training, mentoring a new leader...

Of course this would be dependant on a method of tracking training attendance within Scout-net, an issue which is supposed to be addressed as we move to mandatory training.

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Comments

Susan Cheever 23 days ago

It's too hard to track and leaders who are dedicated will participate in "continuing education" in the course of doing their job well. This requirement would just give those dedicated leaders extra work playing "big brother" or "big sister" to less dedicated leaders to try to keep them in compliance.

Michael Mitchell 23 days ago

I agree with Susan Cheever to a point. I could see this working as a "long-term" rather than a yearly deal. Such as they have to sttend 5 hours (or teach) of training in 5 years or something like that. I have a couple of Scoutmasters that have been doing this since 1910 and tell me they "don't need training, we know what we're doing". Although things have changed since 1910 or 2008 even.

Susan Cheever 23 days ago

I agree Michael Mitchell, but in my experience, those leaders who have been doing it for years and think they know everything resist the requirements we do have. When we explain to them that their trainings expire and need to be retaken, or that even when they've been trained for one position additional training is required for a new position, they often blow us off, choose not to take the trainings, and wear the trained strip anyway.

pat.friedrich 22 days ago

1. Those that want to will continue to go to trainings.
2. You can lead a horse to water, but you cana't make him drink.
3. These are VOLUNTEERS (what do we not understand about that?
4. Why do you want to kill them?

pcowan 21 days ago

Supplemental trainings are just that; supplemental. They are voluntary to take. Once we go to the mandatory training in 2012 most all of these issues of "old crusties" will go away. Either they will not recharter in their position as leader or their unit will not recharter or they will get trained. We are already forcing them to comply by 2012. Are we now going to force them to take supplemental trainings too?

Our current tracking of trainings in horrendous at best. How do you suggest we also track the occassional weekend supplemental trainings?

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