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Council Training Calendar
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Online Grade Level Trainings
Online Product Program Trainings
Online Orientation to Girl Scouting
In order to ensure that volunteers gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to successfully deliver a meaningful and safe Girl Scout experience, various training courses are offered throughout the year. All courses are designed to enhance and develop your knowledge, skills, abilities, and enthusiasm for Girl Scouting. Please contact your Regional Service Center for local trainings in your area. If you do not know which Regional Service Center provides service in your community, please use the box in the lower, right corner of this webpage.
Council Training Calendar
The current Council Training Calendar is available for download. It has over 200 classroom and camp trainings available for adults to attend. To register for any of these sessions, you may either fill-out the registration form at the back of the training calendar or register online.
Online Calendar and Registration
Our online calendar is available to view the most up-to-date trainings. Look for training sessions with the blue boxes. You can also search for a particular training through our online registration and search. Scroll down to the adult training portion at the bottom. You can search by a date range or training type. Once you find the training you wish to take, you can register online. If your training has a payment due, they can be made with Visa, MasterCard, Discover or electronic check. You can check the status of any event or training and view your registration history.
Online Grade Level Trainings
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana recently began updating its popular series of online leadership training options in response to requests from its volunteers. As a way to offer our membership blended learning opportunities that integrate various learning styles, we present the first in our online training series: Girl Scout Daisy Grade Level Leadership Essentials. This course is also available via a traditional classroom setting. The classroom offerings are listed within the printed council training calendar or in our online calendar.
Girl Scout Daisy Grade Level Leadership Essentials is designed for leaders of Girl Scout Daisies in grades K and 1. This training follows Orientation to Girl Scouts and Volunteer Essentials training.
Girl Scout Brownie Grade Level Leadership Essentials is currently under construction and will be launched as soon as it is completed.
We also anticipate the launch of the updated Girl Scout Junior Grade Level Leadership Essentials this spring. As always, volunteer feedback is encouraged and needed to keep the trainings modern and effective. Feedback opportunities are available upon the completion of each training.
Product Program Training
Your troop's Fall Product and Cookie Coordinators can now take take their training online. Each season, the links to the training module will be posted here. Right now, the 2010 Cookie Program Troop Essentials is available. This is a self-study guide for troop cookie coordinators and leaders. Plan for this course to take about one hour to complete. This course is designed to be completed from start to finish. If you are interrupted, you can bookmark a page and return later.
Orientation to Girl Scouting
for adult members
Updated orientation from GSUSA is available in English and Spanish.
This online 45-minute session provides an overview of Girl Scouting today. It includes the fundamentals of Girl Scouting – the Promise and Law, Girl Scout mission and history, an introduction to the Girl Scout Leadership Experience and Pathways for girls and adults. Complete this session prior to attending Volunteer Essentials. Print out and bring a copy of your learning log to turn into your trainer. Be sure to include your contact information.
To enjoy the full benefits of the updated online Volunteer Orientation, your PC or Mac should include these features:
- Flash 8 or 9 player (software)
- Sound (audio) card
- Speakers
- Ability to disable the pop-up blocker
- High-speed Internet connection
- Headsets (optional)
- Go to http://training.girlscouts.org/.
- Choose English or Spanish.
- Type the password "discover" (without the quotation marks).
- Click Login.