Troop Level Training

The methods and available course materials to provide training to youth leaders in Scouting has evolved greatly over 90 years.  Program volunteers should become familiar with the recently revised Youth Leadership Training Continuum: A Guide for Scout Leaders and Parents to understand all of the updates and enhancements.

 

Today, the BSA provides program support material for Troop Level Training by the Scoutmaster and Senior Patrol Leader.  The Flint River Council also offers the National Youth Leader Training course each summer.

 

BSA No. 34306A available at the Flint River Council Scout Store

replaces the Scoutmaster Junior Leader Training Kit.

All Boy Scout troops should conduct the TLT course with every leadership shift—whether it is when the youth get a new troop position or a patrol leadership role, or even when they welcome a new patrol member. The course has three one-hour modules that can be presented as individual one-hour sessions or as a combined three-hour block. These sessions are as follows:

1. Introduction to Troop Leadership—
2. How to Fulfill Your Position—
3. What Is Expected of Me—

The youth leader training courses are built around the slogan Be-Know-Do, which serves as the building blocks.  Our Troop's Patrol Leader Handbook and Den Chief Handbook supplemental references follow this same building block model.    

 

Youth Training Resources

• Green Bar Bill's Patrol Leader Training
• White Stag Resources for Junior Leader Training
• NetWoods Leadership and Training
• JLTC - Scanned version of Section II of the BSA Junior Leader Training
• JLTC - Modified version of the BSA Junior Junior Leader Training
• JLTC - Sample Schedule
• Junior Leadership Organization Chart
• Junior Leadership Organization (RTF)
• Junior Leadership Training Weekend