Girl Scouts of Colorado
TRAINING SESSION DESIGN
Event: Required Session Daisy 101 Training Page 16 of 16
Date: August 2013_____ Time: 3 Hours Pre-requisites: Nuts and Bolts and GS 101
LEARNING OUTCOMES (Participants will be able to)
Ø Apply the processes of Girl-led; Cooperative Learning, Learning by Doing and Progression to their Daisy Girl Scouts
Ø Identify characteristics of Daisy Girl Scout – ranges, changes of development: expectations
Ø Use the National Program Portfolio (Journeys, Girls Guide) as a foundation for troop activities
Ø Value Girl Scout traditions, awards, and ceremonies
Ø Plan for a Girl Scout year incorporating important GS dates, girl voice and meeting structure
Ø View Volunteer Essentials, Safety Activity checkpoints, Service Unit volunteers and the web as resources to help them
TIME /TOPIC FLOW
/CONTENT
/ SUGGESTED METHOD / RESOURCES, MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT /Registration
Housekeeping / Sign-in, name tags
Participants will be encouraged to arrive 10-15 minutes prior to training
Name tags, give handout packets, explain location of bathrooms, food/drinks available, smoking outside, cell phone use, and use of Burning Questions, and explain that they will be up and moving a lot, stash stuff under chairs or out of way / Set up room
Something for them to do (model) / Sign-in Sheet, pens, name tags
Markers, chart paper, easel
Post – Burning ?s, What to expect
Daisy level journey set, Girls Guides (2-4)
“Bag of Tricks” materials (trainer choice)
Safety Activity Checkpoints (4-6), Volunteer Essentials (4-6), Handouts packets
Songbook sheets, scissors, hole punch, D-rings
10 min / Introductions
What to expect / Introduce trainers giving relevant information.
Women up on feet, in circle to start
Activity: Conduct Needs assessment.
Who has been a leader, Who was a Girl Scout, who is brand new etc. (Winnebago Game/4 Corners is possible method for this)
Explain that a game up front like this is a part of effective meeting plan ex. Memory Name game
(Girls take turns introducing themselves and giving one thing they like. Other girls have to remember name and item each girl gave)
Review Session Content and briefly explain
· Unique capabilities of each age
· How to lead a girl-led environment and apply the GSLE
· Journeys and the Girls Guide to Girl Scouting
· Additional awards and program for each age
· Traditions and Ceremonies
· Planning and Safety Resources to help you / Winnebago/4 corners / Chart paper with What to expect
15 min / Characteristics of Daisy Girl Scouts
Inclusive Environment / Brainstorm the developmental characteristics of K-1st graders keeping in mind how this will influence how you will share leadership responsibilities with the girls.
Activity: Cookbook brainstorm
Split into 4 small groups, give them 2 min to brainstorm, then they leave their sheet, get up and rotate to the next location and fill in the blanks. Prompts: Like to do, behavior challenges, good at, trying to do
Girl Scouting commits to providing a safe and inclusive environment for girls.
· Girl Scouts creates a safe space for girls emotionally, physically and mentally
Practical application:
· Model how to make others feel welcome
· Supportive language used to describe differences
· accommodating differences
· accessibility concerns
· modeling listening and getting their voice heard
Benefits to girls:
· safe to share, learn, be themselves
· model inclusive behaviors for world outside of GS troop
· value and respect differences / Cookbook style brainstorm / Chart paper and markers in 3-4 places in room (tables, on wall)
Characteristics of Daisies in Handouts
Daisy Girl Scouts: have energy and need to move, like to create, are working on fine motor skills, think about here and now only, basic literacy and number skills, can hear simple directions, like to be recognized for accomplishments, can make simple decisions, like to try it themselves, like to work together
girlscoutsofcolorado.org/inclusion
15 min / Group Agreement / Discuss:
-Concepts of group agreements (negotiated) versus ground rules (mandated)
-tie it back to the Promise and Law
-Benefits incl. shared accountability
-create a physical reminder (make it pretty and post it)
-let it be a living document (revisit it when difficult situations arise)
PRACTICE GROUP AGREEMENT – participants get into role of girls in their troop. Then, role play how to guide with Daisies. Seed ideas with Daisies! (refer back to cookbook, promise and law for ideas)
Discuss: Benefits incl. shared accountability, physical reminder (make it pretty and post it), living document (revisit it when difficult situations arise)
“Group Agreement is a perfect storm of many core Girl Scout ideas: fostering an inclusive environment, girl-led activities, learning and participating cooperatively with others, progressing their skills, troop governance, promise and law!!!”
Have participants anticipate common troop conflicts/ disruptions and brainstorm ideas on how to resolve.
-Have leaders shout out examples of disruptions or conflict in their troop.
If time permits play or just describe games to help girls focus on importance of listening
Activity: Telephone game. Girls sit in quiet circle. One girl chooses a simple sentence and whispers it into her neighbor’s ear. That neighbor whispers into the next girls ear, so on and so forth until it get all the way around the circle and back to the original girl. How different is it? Silly, but also help girls see the importance of really listening and how easy information can get distorted if they don’t / Large Group Brainstorm
Demo/explain listening game for girls / Chart paper, marker
Promise and Law in Handouts
ex. listening to each other, getting off track and wasting time, bathrooms, being friends, treating materials kindly, cleaning up, helping, not participating
10 min / The 3 Hows and the Girl Adult Partnership / Define 3 Processes (3 Hows) and Girl Adult partnership with Daisies *if technology is available, show Fun with a Purpose video here
3 Hows with Daisies
1. Girl Led - Girls and their leaders work as partners in planning and decision-making. Leaders provide guidance in decision-making skills. Girls at this age are capable of deciding some specifics of what and how they want to do things.
2. Cooperative Learning - Daisies like to work together in small groups, cooperation breeds sense of safety and respect, shy
3. Learning by Doing – Daisies have to be active and hands on, like to try things on their own
Girl Adult Partnership – leadership role for girls grows over time, tasks should be sensitive to girls' developmental, social and physical maturity and build on things they have already tried and mastered
Discuss Why? “Hey, I’m just a mom who wants to earn some fun badges with my kid and her friends!”
-Girl Scouts 100+ years old, changed many times
- GSLE is designed to teach the girls to comfortably make decisions, to work well independently, in a small group or in a large group, and how to comfortable seek out others to work with and learn from
-Girl Scouts still do many of the things you remember/anticipated (badges, cookies, community service, crafts, outdoors)
-we offer professional training on how to weave GSLE into all of the above
- Journeys are designed with these elements already built in!
Activity: Brainstorm a Hike with the 3 Hows and Progression
Girl Led (give specific choices – what they will look for, what song they will sing, what they liked and didn’t like in reflection)
Cooperative Learning(buddy system for scavenger hunt, team identity with scarves)
Learning by Doing (hike, scavenger hunt, recognize accomplishments, nature collage)
Girl Adult partnership – Daisies start with an alphabet hike around their meeting location, implement the same safety and prep as a more advanced hike in woods to get them ready / Lecturette
Hand out
Large Group Brainstorm / Hands outs – GSLE page, Girl Adult partnership page
Fun with a Purpose video DVD
5 min / BREAK / Set out Journeys and post Journey Top 5
30 min / Journeys / Explain 3 series of journeys and Daisy themes:
3 Cheers for Animals- caring for themselves and for animals
Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden-Girl Scout law values and caring for a garden
Between Earth and Sky – protecting the environment and thinking locally
Flip through adult guide 3 Cheers for Animals
Discuss first 22 pages are resources to help you guide the girls on the Journeys
Pg. 8, 24 journey theme highlights
Pg. 12 info on the awards for the journey
Pg 27 Snapshot summary
Pg. 20 Hows reminder
Sample sessions have everything you need to work the session with girls!
Ex. Three Cheers for Animals pg. 82 as example
Ex. Materials list, activities list, ideas on snacks and what to do as girls arrive, and detailed instructions
Pg. 78 is an example of how the Journeys model Take Action for girls
Discuss 3 keys to Leadership
“The learning theory that the Journeys are built around. Together with the 3 Hows, form the structure that modern Girl Scouts and the promise of leadership development is built on”
Discover – What does it take to bake a cookie? What’s my favorite cookie?
Connect – Who else is baking cookies in my community and what can I learn from them? Are there cookies from other countries?
Take Action – How do I want to make a positive change with cookies? Is there an underserved group that needs help learning to bake? Is there a cookie recipe that I can lighten up and share the recipe?
Top 5 things to know about Journeys
1. Sold in pack with girl book or alone, adult book provides structure & girl’s books provides engagement, worksheets, and stories
2. GSLE built into these activities – Its ALL here for you!
3. Field trips and guest speaker are key to success – use your network and community resources
4. Flexibility is a must. If something isn’t working for you or your girls, creativity is welcome! Customize Your Journey training is great next step for help with this concept.
5. Awards are progressive for these, designed to fit together. Girls and you can decide how you want to award them - Awards Ceremony!
Activity: break up into groups (count off so co-leaders are not in the same group).
Assign a session of the Journey to each group (depending on which books are in your kit)
3 Cheers for Animals pg. 36 Session 2
3 Cheers for Animals pg. 82 Session 7
Between Earth and Sky pg. Session 3
Between Earth and Sky pg Session 4
Daisy Flower Garden pg. 49, Session 2
Daisy Flower Garden pg. 55 Session 3
Each group brainstorms how they would work these sessions with Daisies. Have them spend 10-15 minutes on this section. Leaders then present to entire group and discuss girl adult partnership in each session / Hand out guided lecturette,
Hands on Journey adult guide flip through w/ handout support
Small groups / 3 Cheers for Animals adult Journey book pg. 85
White board or chart paper and markers
Set of Journey books, at least one/ 2-3 adults
Handouts
Chart paper, Journey Top 5
Journeys, paper and pens
15 Min / Girls Guide to Girl Scouting / Combo of badge book and handbook and NEW reflection section. Easy to understand and use.
Handbook (as time allows highlight):
Pg. 12-13 role handbook plays in traditions and resources
Pg. 14 Uniform
Pg. 17 Journey Summit award and give brief summary of High Awards
Pg. 22 Bridging & how looking forward engages girls,
Awards
Fold out-Highlight earned petals and connection to Law, and other awards (cookie and finance “leaves”) that can be tracked here
Lupe (blue) Petal – story, 1-3 steps
My Girl Scouts
Reflection, scrapbook
Debate on whether each girl needs a book – take it to the girls and families!
Discuss:
An activity can be counted only once for one award
Earning awards in Girl Scouts is about QUALITY and not quantity.
As long as the activity is in the spirit of the badge requirement, troops can customize activities / Guided flip through / Girls Guides at least 1 per group of 4 women
5 min / “Take Action” and Community Service / Take Action is Girl Scout lingo, a part of the 3 keys to Leadership. Community Service and Take Action are different but related.
Community Service is a gift of time and energy to help others
Take Action is Community Service with a plan for making a sustainable and measurable change in response to a need.
One way to think about the difference is: a
service project is done FOR the community and a Take Action Project is done WITH the community.
Discuss:
Every Journey culminates in a Take Action project, Girls much discover information about the root causes and connect with their communities in order to be ready to Take Action for change.
Each Journey gives age appropriate planning tools.
Take Action as Daisies is the first step in progression toward earning High Awards
Girl led! girls need to 1st recognize something they want to change
Activity: Split up into small groups and fill in chart with ideas for both community service and Take Action
Talking points and answers.
-Identify the root service and then expand from there. eg.How are we helping with our community service? How can we make a more lasting impact?
-“Teach a man to fish” approach, offering new knowledge to others is sustainable
-Affecting change in community for the better is sustainable.
-Partnering with an organization that has capacity to continue your work is sustainable. / Lecturette
Small Group brainstorm / Chart paper, markers
www.girlscoutsrv.org/forms-stuff/take-action-guides/
Hand out worksheet
30 min / Girl Scout Traditions and Ceremony / “Girl scouts has 100+ years of experience in engaging, managing and connecting girls to the worldwide sisterhood”