The ramblings of an ex BSA Varsity Team Coach on Scouting and specifically the Varsity program.
My thoughts, ideas and concerns are in no way connected or shared in any form or fashion by the Boy Scouts of America or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who volutold me to serve as a Varsity Coach.
Some personal rambling too...........
(I am an Assistant Scoutmaster now that the Varsity Program has been murdered........)
I had a nice discussion with a friend at church yesterday. He's a Jr. High math teacher, with high expectations for his kids. (He's in his first year of full-time teaching, so he's not jaded by the system yet.) He is fully of the opinion that his job is to give kids every opportunity to succeed, and so there's no such thing as late work, and only asks that the kids give their best shot at understanding the concepts. No one fails his class.
We talked a bit about EDGE, a bit of Confucian wisdom, and I mentioned how RBP, in Aids to Scoutmastership, differentiated education from instruction. He nodded knowingly, fully understanding how guided discovery trumps force-feeding every time.
I think that the result RBP is referring to in the above quote is kids empowered to do for themselves, not simple mastery of a + b = c or some such. If only I were in a position to ask him to volunteer full-time with the Youth, who love him and his techniques anyway...
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I had a nice discussion with a friend at church yesterday. He's a Jr. High math teacher, with high expectations for his kids. (He's in his first year of full-time teaching, so he's not jaded by the system yet.) He is fully of the opinion that his job is to give kids every opportunity to succeed, and so there's no such thing as late work, and only asks that the kids give their best shot at understanding the concepts. No one fails his class.
We talked a bit about EDGE, a bit of Confucian wisdom, and I mentioned how RBP, in Aids to Scoutmastership, differentiated education from instruction. He nodded knowingly, fully understanding how guided discovery trumps force-feeding every time.
I think that the result RBP is referring to in the above quote is kids empowered to do for themselves, not simple mastery of a + b = c or some such. If only I were in a position to ask him to volunteer full-time with the Youth, who love him and his techniques anyway...
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