Online Orientation Training

BASIC ORIENTATION: TRAINING FOR ADULTS WHO WORK WITH GIRLS

A Basic Orientation to Girl Scouting is now available on the Girl Scouts of the USA Web Site. Completion of this training will fulfill the mandatory training requirement for Girl Scout Orientation.  This training is called Basic Orientation because Councils all over the country use it.  This on-line training session covers basic information about Juliette Gordon Low, the Promises and Law, the four Program Goals, girl/adult partnership, safety and pluralism. 

You will need access to Safety-Wise during one portion of the training.  If you do not have this publication, please call a Service Center to obtain one.  Please complete all sections, the petals of the flower will fill in as you complete each portion. At the end of each section, you will need to go back to the beginning of the section in order for it to color in your petal.

Please notify the Volunteer Education Specialist when you have completed the training.  She will then check the records and send you an evaluation to be completed and returned to the office as well as send you some additional handouts.  You can enter the site as many times as you need in order to complete all sections.  The completed petals will remind you which section you have left.  If you have any questions please contact the Adult Education Director at 800-342-8389 or AdultEd@gsiowa.org.

Leaders are required to complete this training along with an Age Level Training with a council trainer for their specific age level.

The registration process is as follows:

1. Type http://training.girlscouts.org in your browser’s address line and press “Enter” or click on the link.
    
2. Select a training module from the list bulleted by flowers. The only one available at this time is “Basic Orientation”.
    
3. Once you select a training course, you will be asked to log in.
    
4. Are you a registered user?
   First time users are not registered.
   
   If you ARE NOT a registered user, access the new user registration page and fill out all the required fields (those marked with an asterisk) and complete the entire registration process.  Register under the Council Code 520.
   
   If you ARE a registered user and you have created a user name and password, enter them in the website form fields. 
    
5. Once you have logged in/registered, the site will take you to the first page of the training module that you have selected.
   
6. At the end of each section, you will be asked to give some thoughts on each section.  You may want to print these notes when you are finished.  
    
7. NOTE:  Please be aware that after you answer a question and hit submit, the website will take you back to the page you just finished.  You will need to go to the bottom of the page and hit "Final Step" in order to continue on to the next section.

Call the nearest Service Center location when you have completed all sections and we will send you an evaluation to be completed and returned to the office.