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About NYLT - History of Youth Leadership Training 2
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The Camp, Brownsea Island 1907 |
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Baden-Powell started Scouting skills and traditions training on Brownsea Island.
Brownsea Double-Two takes its name from Baden-Powell's first Boy Scout camp in 1907. It makes use of some of the traditions and a number of the activities of the original Brownsea camp.
The White Stag has a very special place in the history of leadership development in the Boy Scouts of America. The Heritage of the White Stag dates back to the 1933 World Jamboree, to several young Hungarian Scouts, and to a challenge made there by Baden-Powell to the Scouts of the world. This program, still going strong, provided the substance of the eleven skills of leadership taught today in Wood Badge and the Junior Leader Training Conference. It also provided the conceptual framework for the application of an experiential learning process to leadership training in the BSA.
In 1960 the Boy Scouts of America started the National Junior Leader Instructor Camp at Schiff Scout Reservation, but later moved the program to Philmont.
It is the mission of the National Junior Leader Instructor Camp to develop the knowledge, skills, motivation and confidence of selected junior leaders to enable them to give superior leadership and guidance to their local council Junior Leader Training Conference.
The example of the staff is a key element of the learning process. The program focuses heavily on effective teaching, the evaluation of learning, and preparation and presentation skills. It seeks to develop the participant’s knowledge and understanding of specific skills relating to the JLTC program, the skills of leadership, the safe haven and the reflection process. It includes a variety of Scoutcraft skills designed to create interest and spark imagination that participants can carry home to their local councils.
The concepts of leadership development, including the eleven skills of leadership, were formally incorporated into Wood Badge in 1971, and into Junior Leader Training in 1973. The Troop Leader Development Staff Guide (for the Junior Leader program) and the Wood Badge Guide Staff Guide (for adults) were adapted to include much of the material originally developed as part of the White Stag program. The historical background of the training was presented in the first edition of the TLD Staff Guide in 1974.
In 1979 the Junior Leader Training Conference (JLTC) replaces TLD and Brownsea by integrating the two programs. In 1993 JLTC syllabus reviewed and updated, integrating 14 years of comments and experience.
In 2004 the Boy Scouts of America piloted the National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) at 14 councils, one being Otetiana Council. This program is a major revision in leadership training, which utilizes the advances in corporate and Scout programs. In 2005 the NYLT program was rolled out as the replacement to the JLTC program. |
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