*About teaching "stuff" spear making or lashing projects ect. these
are secondary to awaiting the arrival of the "teachable moment"...
When that moment arrives, We adults need to exercise great wisdom
to lead the understanding of the Rangers to a obvious conclusion.. or
(like we say out west-) a "Ah-haw" moment of insight! We should be
brief, and clear then be quiet!
Without being trained educational experts... Ranger leaders need to
point the way to achievement or understanding, more than "tie the
knot for the boy" or "answer the question ...*you just- asked him..."
(*see one min. Commander)
You were put into a mixed patrol and experienced a little hardship
for some time.. you were confused maybe and then you saw how
working together as a patrol could allow you to succeed...
(*good- file that thought)
I assume, like at my NTC that "Camp Commander" didn't argue this
out with each member of a patrol, but mearly challenged and then
recognized your whole patrol with a brief word of encouragement.
(*file that thought)
Commander worked through NTC's Sr.Guide.... (*file that thought)
Sr.Guide challenged and led the NTC Patrols through the patrol guides..
*(Question? How is it that so many NTC grads came away with different
slants on the experience?)
I believe it is because the message following the act of Sr. Guide to
relay an emotional experience, with a negative act has stolen the positive
message intended to work to build effective Patrol based relationships.
*Good men have give their time not to offend NTC train'ees but to
do something positive and somewhere in the presentation, the principal
became clouded by a *mixed message.
We left with a memory of "Don't treat the boys this way" and it was not
intended that we abandon the Patrol System that we found were so useful.
*Perhaps that thought is the hardest to convey, to teach leaders how to
hand over the reigns to the boy leaders so that we can work as the LTC
trained councilor, advisor and become the *One Minute Commander!
Sr. Guide was stern, and that is a form of effective leadership-
*but his "style" is NOT endorsed! We do not desire that "Sr.Guide" in
our Outpost, but with you I would welcome the NTC patrols that
succeed at challenges and work together as a team!
We find some Men have left "admireing" the Commanding style of
NTC's Sr.Guide and ordered their boys to write essays ect. and
mandated full uniforms and strict para-military chain of command's.
*Others have left to embrace only the *spiritual and shuned the Patrol
system as an impediment to the mission of Royal Rangers.
(*see one minute Commander)
There is a trail through this confusion, and the conversation we have
may be the light to shine our paths...
What do you think?
-=A=-
NT$ '96
Go Dry Antelopes!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Basically I gave up on reading the posts on NTC because it seemed they were
> going nowhere and just cluttering the mail box. Then I realized I didn't
> care because they wasted my time. I never said how I felt on the subject
> because it didn't matter that much to me.
> Everyone sees everything through their own perspective. Whether their
> view is through rose colored glasses or through cracked jaded ones its all
> the same thing. ALso if you go into it expecting it to be bad chances are
> that it will end up being horrible. Personally I wanted to go and was afraid
> at the time that I wouldn't be able to go because of changes at the national
> level.
> I was seventeen and only able to go because I had completed my GMA and
> all the prerequisits. It was something that I had wanted to do for a while.
> I had been through JLTC and AJLTC and done all sorts of training camps. It
> was time for me to take my training as a leader even though I had been in the
> position already.
> When we got there we were each put into patrols and told to finish,
> basically being left alone. Each one of us it turns out woudl have some
> problem, bad knees, a clostomy bag, and me being 17 made us into what we
> would jokingly call a "gimp patrol." For some people that would make them
> look down on themselves and think that there would be unable to actually
> complete. For us that meant that we would press on and try harder. We had
> our hardships, but we worked as a team and were able to finish and graduate
> proudly after actually doing everything we were supposed to and very little
> of what we weren't supposed to do.
> People see it as some sort of midievil torture device, but NTC is the
> complete opposite. Its a learning experience. The leaders were off doing
> there own thing while we took care of ourselves. We learned what it was
> like (some of for the first time) to be a boy in a patrol. We learned how
> NOT to treat the boys and how to be good commanders at the same time.
> These are the same things I learned in JLTC and AJLTC. We learned so
> many other things but the most important information we learned was that
> being a good leader meant being there WITH and FOR the boys. RR is not a way
> to make you look better by spending a weekend resting by the fire while the
> boys run through the woods. Its leadin them on a nature hike, teaching them
> to fish, make spears, traps, and fishhooks, and basically being a roll model.
>
> I think the greatest lesson that NTC and every other camp I have gone to is
> very simple.
> NEVER MAKE A BOY DO WHAT YOU WOULD NOT BE WILLING TO DO
>
> XKeithX
>
> "All the sacrifices made for nothing
> Don't show can't believe it
> Want to show that I'm good for something
> I can't you won't let me
> Are you running cause your words won't heal me
> Because you can't accept me"
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