1. The first one to fall asleep gets today’s competitive-edge award.
The EDGE Model
The first one to fall asleep gets today’s competitive-edge award.
Teaching EDGE
Leading EDGE
Trainer’s EDGE

2. Intro to EDGE
Explain
Demonstrate
Guide
Enable (Empower!)

3. Boy Scout Handbook 12th edition, page 53
What is “Scouting’s Teaching EDGE”?
Turn to page 53 of your new handbook.
… and to help us see what it says, we’ll zoom into the next … (next slide)
12th edition, page 53

4. Boy Scout Handbook: Teaching
A Scout is helpful. Scouts live up to that point of the Scout Law by sharing what they know. Teaching someone helps you to become better at using a skill too. You can think of it as hands-on research.
You can use Scouting's Teaching EDGE any time you are helping others to learn.
First, think carefully about how to explain to others the way the skill is done.
Then demonstrate the steps
and guide them as they practice.
Lastly, provide the support they need to enable them to use the new skill on their own.
Teaching someone helps us get better.
WE “can use Scouting’s Teaching edge ANY TIME we are helping others to learn”
We’ll use this throughout scouting.
HOW?
Step Zero: “First, think carefully about HOW to EXPLAIN to others”
Step 1: then actually explain it.
Step 2: Then demonstrate (you DO it)
Step 3: Then THEY DO it and you guide and correct (coach) them along
Step 4: Lastly, step back and enable them use the skill ON THEIR OWN. With you supplying the “atta boy”!
for example … (next slide)

5. Boy Scout Handbook: Teaching
That’s what happened when you learned to tie the square knot as you were joining your troop.
Another Scout explained the knot to you and
then demonstrated how to tie it.
Then he gave the rope to you and guided through the steps.
The two of you kept at it until he had enabled you to tie a square knot yourself.
We’ve all done this a million times.
Questions?

6. New Tenderfoot Requirement
A Scout must teach another person how to tie a square knot using the EDGE model
Explain
Demonstrate
Guide
Enable
OK. Do it.
Al is passing out ropes. Turn to the guy next to you and one play the role of the Scout wanting to become Tenderfoot; and one play the rolw of someone – could even be his little sister – how to tie a square not.
OK?
while you are doing this, pay attention to HOW you are teaching … (next slide)

7. Boy Scout Handbook: Teaching
[Leave slide up for hands-on portion]
[at the end say] We are to do this whenever we are teaching others a skill.
For instance … (next slide)
Page 53

8. New Life Requirement
While a Star Scout, use the EDGE method to teach a younger Scout the skills from ONE of the following six choices so that he is prepared to pass those requirements to his unit leaders satisfaction.
a. Second Class—7a and 7c (first aid)
b. Second Class—1a (outdoor skills)
c. Second Class—3c, 3d, 3e, and 3f (cooking/camping)
d. First Class—8a, 8b, 8c, and 9d (first aid)
e. First Class—1, 7a, and 7b (outdoor skills)
f. First Class—4a, 4b, and 4d (cooking/camping)
Here is the new Life scout requirement.
It turns out that to do this you first should be familiar with a model of how we lead in Scouting … (next slide)

9. Stages of Leadership page 57 Handbook page 57.
And, zooming in so we can read it (next slide)

10. Scouting’s Leading EDGE
Page 59
And this is summarized on page 59
Or, zooming in (next slide)

11. Stages → EDGE What a Trainer can do Where the group is: Forming
Starting out—
Explain
Skills are low; Enthusiasm high
Storming
Becoming discouraged—
Demonstrate
Skills and enthusiasm are low
Norming
Making progress—
Guide
Skills and enthusiasm are rising
Performing
Finding success—
Enable
Skills and enthusiasm are high
So, HOW you train (what you DO), depends upon where the students ARE – in terms of their SKILLS and ENTHUSIASM.
OK?
Let’s do this with a Hands-on demo.
… next slide.

12. Explain Demonstrate Guide Enable
Forming Storming Norming Performing
Explain Demonstrate Guide Enable

13. Inter-Patrol Activity
Knot tying
Patrol Leaders:
Send one representative to the PLC for instructions

14. Intro to EDGE: Explain
1: Hold your scarf flat, red side on the left. 2: Roll up the scarf four or five times to make the ends narrower, more rope-like. 3: About four inches from the end, cross the green end underneath and back over the top of the red. 4: Hold your finger on the red end at the crossing and wrap it towards you, underneath. 5: Pull the red end up over the top of the green. 6: Pull your finger out of the red loop and push the green end over the red and through that loop. 7: Pull the green end all the way through and tighten as needed to get an even square shape.

15. Intro to EDGE: Explain

16. Intro to EDGE: Demo

17. Questions?
Comments

18. Stages of Leadership
Leadership and teaching are closely related. Think again about learning to tie a square knot. Another Scout used Scouting’s Teaching EDGE to explain, demonstrate, guide and enable you to tie a square knot.
A good leader can help a group such as a Scout patrol work through the same stages with a project that the patrol members are doing.
Leading is like teaching
Using EDGE is like taking a patrol thru the stages of doing a project

19. Where the group is → What a leader does
At the beginning, the patrol’s enthusiasm is high, but it can turn to discouragement as the work becomes hard. A leader can help by explaining and demonstrating what to do.
That is (read the slide)

20. Where the group is → What a leader does
This encourages group members not to give up while at the same time showing them how to tackle difficulties.
As the group’s skills and motivation increase, the leader can step back and guide the group as it begins to succeed.

21. Where the group is → What a leader does
When the group members have the ability and enthusiasm to move ahead on their own, the leader enables them to keep going by providing support when they ask for it.