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FAQ's (Frequently asked questions)
What is Wood Badge?
Boy Scout Leader Wood Badge is the advanced training program for Boy Scout troop leaders. It is designed to train Scoutmasters, assistant Scoutmasters, troop committee members, and other Scouters directly related to Boy Scout troop operation.
The Wood Badge program consists of two parts: practical training and application. The practical training take place is a camp setting where Scoutcraft skills can be learned and practiced. Wood Badge training does not cover highly advanced outdoor skills. At the conclusion of the practical training, each participant has six months to two years from the close of the course to complete the application phase and meet all of the goals that have been established in the Wood Badge ticket.
Wood Badge is advanced training in group leadership skills and troop operations. There are two parts to Wood Badge training: the practical phase and the application phase. The practical phase is an eight-day (week long) experience consisting of living in an outdoor environment, learning and working with other Scouters, while being exposed to the leadership skills applicable to the development of both Scouters and Scouts. Through this living and working experience, you will develop a knowledge and prectical understanding of these leadership skills. You will learn how to apply these skills in you Scouting positions. Most participants also discover ways to use the leadership skills to better their personal lives.
During the application phase, you will carry out the plans and commitments made during the practical phase. Throughout this application phase, you will work with a ticket counselor, who serves as a resource, an evaluator, and a friend. You ticket counselor will assist you in fully understanding what you learned from the practical phase, and will help you apply that understanding to the enhancement of your Scouting position.
Why should I attend Wood Badge?
Help improve your effectiveness as a leader and trainer, to deliver the highest quality program possible to the youth of your community.
Attendance and satisfactory completion of all requirements is a recognized accomplishment for you, but more important, you will join some of the most knowledgeable Scouters in the area, with the opportunity to learn and practice SCOUTING as it was intended.
What will I learn at Wood Badge?
You will receive instruction in all of these leadership skills:
The overall objective of Wood Badge training is to provide participants with a meaningful experience in Scouting that will enhance their knowledge and create a deeper understanding of their roles and responsibilities as leaders.
Wood Badge has five specific objectives:
What are Wood Badge beads?
In 1888, when a British expedition was sent to Zululand, South Africa,
it had to contend with Dinizulu, King of the Zulus - a clever, heavily
built man, 6 ft., 7 ins. in height. On state occasions, Dinizulu wore a
necklace about 12 feet in length. It consisted of 1,000 or more wood beads,
made from a South African yellow wood and strung on a rawhide lace.
The necklace was a distinction conferred on royalty and outstanding
warriors. During the hostilities that swept Natal and Zululand in those
faraway days, then Captain Robert Baden Powell - gained possession of Dinizulu's
Necklace.
On the morning of September 8, 1919, the now 61 year-old retired general of the British Army stepped out into the centre of a clearing at Gilwell Park, in Epping Forest, outside London, England. He raised to his lips the horn of a Greater Kudu, one of the largest of African antelopes. He blew a long sharp blast. Nineteen men dressed in short pants and knee socks, their shirt-sleeves rolled up, assembled by patrols for the first Scoutmasters' training camp held at Gilwell. The camp was designed and guided by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the World Scouting Movement.
When they had finished their training together, Baden-Powell remembered
Dinizulu's Necklace and taking two of the wooden beads and knotting them
on a leather thong, he created the Wood Badge - to be worn around the neck
and to be the only proficiency badge worn by Scoutmasters. When the original
beads ran out, new ones were whittled to maintain the tradition established
by Baden-Powell. The Wood Badge, with its replicas of the original Dinizulu
beads, is now worn by thousands of men and women around the world. Because
of these beads, the course came to be known as the Wood Badge Course. It
continues to this day in England and around the world as the advanced training
course for leaders in Scouting.
What are the Wood Badge course dates in Trails West Council
1) from the course director
Norman R. Brown
833 Ruskin Avenue
Edwardsville, IL 62025-2347
(618)-659-9128
nrbrown@iw.edwpub.com
2) from the council service center
Trails West Council, BSA
1055 Harrison
Wood River, IL 62095-1895
(618) 259-2145
3) from the course website
http://twc-woodbadge.freeservers.com/y2k.htm
Send an e-mail
4) from a staff member
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