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Scouting and Guiding in Victoria, a State of Australia, is predominantly represented by the state branch of Scouts Australia and Girl Guides Victoria, a member of Girl Guides Australia. ==Scouts Australia - Victorian Branch== Scouts Victoria is a volunteer-based Non-profit organization that caters to the needs of young people throughout the state, providing them with educational and fun activities from the ages of 6 to 26, adult leaders 18+ can also take advantage of these opportunities. Scouts also offer much support to their local communities at their own expense, from working at the local council festival to helping in the aftermarth of the 2009 Black saturday bushfires and 2011 Victorian floods. Scouting appears to have started as early as 1907 in an informal way: :''"The cradle of Scouting in Victoria was the Tooronga Rd. State School, Caulfield; where in late 1907 one of the pupils, Roy McIndoe, received from a friend in England, who had been a member of the experimental camp at Brownsea Island, some pamphlets which had been issued by the Chief. These he showed to his mates who immediately got red shirts, their father's old felt hats, formed 'patrols' and 'whooped round the place like Red Indians'. Later in 1908 when they received the first copies of Scouting for Boys, they settled down to genuine Scouting."''〔(Victoria Scout Heritage Centre - How Scouting began )〕 It is unclear which was the first Scout Troop in Victoria, Many suggest that it is 1st Victorian Sea Scouts located on Albert Park Lake but that is unclear. By the end of 1908, there were 11 Scout Troops in Victoria.〔〔''Those Boy Scouts: A Story of Scouting in Victoria'', A.R. Milne and C. B. Heward (1987)〕 The Boy Scouts Association, Victorian Branch was incorporated in 1912 by Royal Charter of George V and the 1932 Boy Scout Association Act.〔(SCOUT ASSOCIATION ACT 1932 - SECT 3 ) Accessed 14 December 2006〕 Victoria hosted the Australian Scout Jamboree (AJ2007) from 2–13 January 2007 in Elmore in regional Victoria. It was the first official worldwide Scouting event to celebrate the 100 years of Scouting. The Branch is divided into 11 Regions: Bays, Eastern, Geelong, Gippsland, Lerderderg, Loddon Mallee, Melbourne, Mt Dandenong, Northern, West Coast, Western. In early 2010, the Branch reorganised the Regions in and around the Melbourne Metropolitan Area, to align them with the State Government's main growth corridors. The new regions came into effect in April 2010, with the Rover Section now operating within the new region structure as of their July AGM's. In November 2014, the Scouts Victoria's State Council appointed Shane Jacobson as Chief Scout of Victoria, the first Chief Scout in the State and anywhere in Australia who was not the Governor of Victoria. Shane was invested on 15 February in Melbourne at the Myer Music Bowl in front of 15,000 Scouts and their families following a city wide social media scavenger hunt for Scouting street art through the Melbourne laneways. Shane credits Scouting and the training he received in Gang Show as a young Scout with teaching him the skills that would lead him to experience a successful career as a movie star and entertainer. Since 2007, Scouting in Victoria has experienced a resurgence that continues today. With a growing number of boys and girls, men and women looking to join the movement, the organisation has continued to modernise so as to meet the needs of young people in local communities. Under the leadership of the Chief Commissioner Scouts Victoria, Brendan J Watson OAM, Scouting in Victoria is now positioning itself in the education sector. In 2014, Prepare for Adventure, Prepare for Life was launched as the new Scouts Victoria slogan. At the same time the new Chief Commissioner Scouts Victoria, also Principal of Catholic Regional College Sydenham in the West of Melbourne and a respected educator, initiated an education strategy that would provide benefits for members of the organisation. The first of these was to have the Venturer Award in the Venturer section accredited within the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) and the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL). Mapping the two VET qualifications earned when completing the Venturer Award, Scouting was able to ensure that the Venturer Award scheme contributed significantly towards the senior secondary certificates. The value of the Queen's Scout Award was also formally established with 4 Universities initially recognising the work undertaken by Venturers in completing the award as substantially significant so as to provide for applications for acceptance through early entry and special entry programs. Australian Catholic University, La Trobe, Victoria University and Federation University each had their own special entry schemes that recognised the Queen's Scout Award and work undertaken as a part of the Venturer Award Scheme for consideration. ACU as an example meant that the Queen's Scout Award, through the Early Achievers Program, could result in Venturers receiving up to 20 ATAR point reduction in the ATAR entry requirements for specific courses, even greater reductions for others thus providing a pathway that may have been closed off previously. The Chief Commissioner Scouts Victoria, Mr Brendan J Watson OAM, as an educator and Principal understood the value of the Scout Leader Training program and the experience that being a volunteer leader in the movement could provide for students studying teaching degrees at tertiary level. In 2015, Monash University partnered with Scouts Victoria to implement the trial Quality Teacher Program which would see undergraduate 2nd year (of 4-year course) teaching students sign up in pairs as leaders within Scout Groups. The experience of panning, delivering, assessing and providing feedback on the content delivered and undertaken in the course of a usual Scout Meeting each week provided these preservice teachers with additional experiences as well as the opportunity to work with young people, manage behaviours, provide support and engage with families. The experience and training provided by Scouting to these preservice teachers also covered Duty of Care, Risk Assessment and Management, practical experience in planning, organising, running and evaluating camps, excursions, events, carnivals, and other out of school activities that most student teachers never have the opportunity to learn on teaching rounds. The Quality Teacher Program designed by Chief Commissioner Scouts Victoria, Brendan J Watson OAM, saw 25 Groups have leaders placed in their ranks in the first round of placements with subsequent placements to follow. Brendan Watson OAM had stated that the experience over three years would see these undergraduate teachers go into schools as graduate teachers with the skills and experience of a teacher that had been working ins schools for 3–5 years. The quality of teacher preparation is often scrutinised but in 2015, Scouts Victoria established the program that could improve the quality of teacher preparation with the goal being to improve student outcomes and engagement across the State in all school sectors. Scouts Australia have committed to implementing the Scouts Victoria programs throughout the other Branches seeing the initiatives as innovative, ground breaking and creative. Serving both Scouting and the entire education sector, the Quality Teacher Program struggled to gain traction initially and sadly did not receive any response from the government. Regardless, Scouts Victoria forged ahead with positive results being seen almost immediately. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scouting and Guiding in Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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