Boy Scout Leader Training Award Requirements

Boy Scout Leader's Training Award

 

Note: This knot may be worn with a pin to indicate the program area in which it was earned. (The pin is much smaller than shown.)

Downloadable Progress Record

Training

• Complete Boy Scout Leader Fast Start training.
• Complete Basic Leader Training for your position.

Note: Boy Scout leaders completing basic training before September 1, 2001, may count the old Scoutmaster Fundamentals course as basic training. Leaders completing training after that date must take New Leader Essentials and the further training required for their position. Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters need Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training and Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills, and Troop Committee members must have the Troop Committee Challenge .

Tenure

Complete a total of two years as a registered adult Boy Scout leader.

Performance

Do five of the following:

• Participate in a support role for five overnight campouts.
• Help with two annual unit and/or district Friends of Scouting enrollments.
• Serve on the staff of a council or district training event.
• Participate in a supplemental training course at either the local council or national level,
• Participate actively in three troop parents' nights or courts of honor.
• Help supervise and support a troop money-earning project.
• Serve as a merit badge counselor for at least five Scouts.
• Successfully complete Boy Scout Leader Wood Badge.
• Successfully fulfill requirements of a troop committee function as described in the Troop Committee Guidebook.
• Assist actively in a Webelos den for six months.
• Participate in six Boy Scout Roundtables.
• Help organize or reorganize a Scout troop.

Scoutmaster's Key Requirements

 

Note: This knot may be worn with a pin to indicate the program area in which it was earned. (The pin is much smaller than shown.)

Downloadable Progress Record

Training

• Complete Boy Scout Leader Fast Start.
• Complete
1. New Leader Essentials
2. Scoutmaster & Assistant Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training.
3. Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills.

 

Note: If you completed basic training before September 1, 2001, the earlier Scoutmastership Fundamentals course is equivalent to these three courses. If you wish, you may use the old progress record .
 

• Participate in one supplemental training course at either a local council or national level.
• Participate in at least six Boy Scout leader Roundtables a year.
• Conduct Troop Junior Leader Training at least three times, as outlined in the Scoutmaster's Junior Leader Training Kit.
• Participate as an adult in junior leader training by either serving on the staff or attending the Scoutmaster orientation session of the council junior leader training conference.
• Earn the Boy Scout Leader's Training Award.

Tenure

Complete three years of registered tenure as a Scoutmaster within a five-year period (can include the tenure used to earn the Scouter's Award).

Performance

At least twice during the three-year period serve as a Scoutmaster of a troop that earns the National Quality Unit Award.