Plan:
Components Overarching Focus of the day (What style of leadership do you wish to portray? What ethos or theme do you wish to have for the day?) Route Card examples (Please list the route card you will utilise and attach a copy of it) Suggested Activities (Examples of potential activities that you could lead the group in throughout the day) Ideas for debrief (Please consider how you might discuss the days activities with the group) |
:Description Main focus is for everyone to learn something totally new, e.g. a fact, something about the area, about themselves or about someone in group etc. Quote from my Action Plan: “My main mantra and goal is to not just assume something, to clarify it.” I plan to mix up my leadership style based on the situation; Start of the day I am going to place things in my hat over about these specifics: *** I’ll check that some these of things are possible with Munge P.S. I may also have change some of the options if we have done them the day or two beforehand. - pre walk warm up: yoga, stretching, or pole game - what we all going focus on today: everyone each writes something they want to focus on/learn and one or two will be picked; depending on if the chosen one needs all day or only part of the day - options for today: solo time, silent walk, night walk, pack-off explore - extra activity: pop quiz, surprise dessert, treat or joke half hour - theme: on my leading day I will wearing one of my funky patterned shirts I brought from the oppy I am planning to have theme: Reflection/Learn Something New Day If in the first week: getting know to each better and if we have done it yet to allocate a time to write a letter ourselves to read after we finish long walk. If in the second week: learning something you want to know or planned to learn from this trip and write a journal entry about what you still want to learn and reflect on how far we have come. - Leg each leg of the walk, the below point will change - Destination (Grid Ref) find the GR - Bearing True This the bearing before you + or – the magnetic variation - Bearing Mag Add the magnetic bearing variation + or - 8-10° etc - Distance How long we are walking for - Walk Rate estimate This will be faster up hill and slower up hill - Height gained or lost ↑ or ↓….m for ascends and descends - Terrain e.g. rocky, steep, ascent, descent - Specific foci e.g. pointing out the flora communities and using field guides, pop quiz about the 1st week - Estimated Time this can be based on walk rate estimate that you can determine after 30 minutes or an hour of walking, but remember about that terrain can change this. - warm-up - skipping with rope - dancing - riddles - the penguin game: Get everyone to walk around like a penguin and call out: Bear: everyone stops and looking for bear Dive: everyone dives into ground Slippery ice: move around as if on slippery ice Huddle: everyone comes in And do that a couple of times - highlights and lowlights (rock, leave and stick) - give a reason - something peculiar that you noticed - feedback for me, the leader e.g. what you would have done in my position/led some of my activities differently, what I did that worked well and what didn't work soo well. |
Myself, the leader:
is the this track well defined? - Should I go off a bearing
- Have a tail end person, this may potentially be Munge
- Think of stops for snacks, lunch, camp
- Check how the group is travelling - hot spots
- Catchy features to aim for
- Keep your eyes on the map
Start of the day:
Things to ask of the group:
How they are feeling?
How far do we want to or need to travel?
Are they any specific places the group wants to go over the course of the day?
Extra considerations:
- Places to explore?, – walking up to knolls
- Does our planned campsite have water close by or do we need to have a water collection point?
Equipment needed:
Compass and whistle
Group first aid kit
is the this track well defined? - Should I go off a bearing
- Have a tail end person, this may potentially be Munge
- Think of stops for snacks, lunch, camp
- Check how the group is travelling - hot spots
- Catchy features to aim for
- Keep your eyes on the map
Start of the day:
Things to ask of the group:
How they are feeling?
How far do we want to or need to travel?
Are they any specific places the group wants to go over the course of the day?
Extra considerations:
- Places to explore?, – walking up to knolls
- Does our planned campsite have water close by or do we need to have a water collection point?
Equipment needed:
Compass and whistle
Group first aid kit
Personal Goals for Leadership:
Leadership:
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
To achieve good leadership on Long Walk I will:
Examples of resources you might utilise:
Leadership:
What steps you plan to take in aiding your attempts at achieving them:
To achieve good leadership on Long Walk I will:
- draw out the route plan and look through the night before
- Navigation
- figure the catchy features to look for, changes in direction, figure out if I want or need to take a bearing, how much we are going up or down in elevation - Seek enough clarification from the group
- Make sure the group is ready before I start my instructions
- Observing to see if my approach is working or not working
- change my leadership style when I need to
- mark out potential lunch spots and campsites
- ensure the safety of the group
- asking for when someone wants to stop for drink, toilet, snack, hot spots, a delayer or to put a layer back on.
Examples of resources you might utilise:
- My maps
- Priest and Gass’ Effective Leadership and Adventure Programming
- Bushwalking and Ski Touring Leadership
- Thomas, Glyn (2010) Facilitator, teacher, or leader? Managing conflicting roles in outdoor education. The Journal of Experiential Education, 32 3- 239-254.
- Less confident
- Leading your peers, people your own age and are older than you.
- Not seeing that’s it’s not really working
- Making assumptions/not clarifying with everyone
- Having unclear instructions
- If I have a good plan and read it over this shouldn’t happen - Not knowing the area well enough to pick appropriate lunch and campsite spots