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| SAMPLE PATROL MEETING AGENDA Remember that not all patrol meetings will have all of these items. 1. Take attendance 2. Collect dues 3. Announcements 4. Patrol members report on assignments, if any 5. Decide on plans (brainstorm ideas, vote) 6. Assign tasks 7. Work on patrol assignments 8. Teach skills 9. Work on badges, recognitions 10. Clean-up |
| BRAINSTORMING GUIDELINES Brainstroming is a common technique to accumulate many ideas in a short amount of time. One person is chosen as recorder (to record the items on paper or a board). One person is chosen as moderator (in a patrol, this is often the patrol leader). Once the topic is chosen to brainstorm (such as ideas of places to go) the moderator asks for ideas. Following are some guidelines: 1. One person speaks a a time 2. All ideas are included and written down 3. No judgmental statements are made about anyone's idea 4. Everyone has a chance to contribute one or more ideas 5. After all ideas have been offered, ideas are evaluated for their feasibility (such as, "We don't ave enough money in our troop treasury at this time to go to Hawaii") but they are never judged ("That's a stupid idea!) 6. After unfeasilbe suggestions are disqualified, a vote is taken on what is left. |
| COURT OF HONOR Generally consisting of the Troop Officers and the Patrol Leaders, the Court of Honor meets on a regular basis to plan troop activities. Monthly meetings can be used to plan events to coour the following month. A long meeting once or twice a year vcan be used for long term planning of troop events and planning the troop yearly calendar. If you have a troop moderator or Presidne,t this person generally presides over the Court of Honor meetings. |
| SAMPLE COURT OF HONOR AGENDA Remember that not all Court of Honor Meetings will have all of these items 1. Minutes of last Court of Honor read and approved 2. Treasurer's Report read 3. Patrol Leader reports 4. Announcements 5. Troop planning including discussion, voting and assigning of jobs 6. Leadership training for Patrol Leaders 7. Teach skills for Patrol Leaders to teach patrols 8. Make agenda for patrol meetings 9. Discuss patrol problems |
| TEACHING PATROL LEADERS TO CONDUCT PATROL MEETING Before each Patrol Meeting, the Patrol Leader needs to: 1. Organize her notes from the Court of Honor a. She should have a special binder or spiral notebook for this purpose b. She should indicate which items need to be acted upon in her patrol 2. Include the Assistant Patrol Leader in the planning a. Leaders can set side time for the patrol leader and the assistant patrol leader to accomplish this 3. Review items of unfinished business and activities already planned a. Use her notebook in her patrol meeting to record items and the action taken and which items were held over for further discussion or action 4. Organize material and make an agenda 5. Plan how to talk over what the patrol wants to do a. Ask girls what they want to do b. Learn about brainstroming Guidelines c. determine which ideas can be combined d. Find out how girls want to carry out the ideas e. Keep a record of these suggestions in her notebook 6. Gather supplies for the meeting a. Share the responsibility with other patrol members 7. Know when to call the troop leader a. Troop leader does not attend patrol meetings but is on hand in case she is needed b. Troop leader should be consulted if problems occur with controlling behavior c. Troop leader may need to be consulted for clearing a new idea (safety issues, etc) |
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