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Originally Posted by Ekcrbe
How do you determine who scouts which matches? Do you have structured shifts or a minimum number of matches per person per event, or something else?
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It has mostly been on a voluntary basis. We ask that students help and support the roles. At the District events this is usually not as big an issues as MSC and World championship due to the amount of distractions and good weather available. We did have some complaints this year about shifts being too long and some of the students not participating enough. We are discussing with our students on how to improve this. With the 7 students, if someone has to leave for an emergency, the lead scout is able to pick up the slack for a match or two.
Motivating students is a tricky subject, and often requires specialized solutions for each team. On our team we praise good behaviours publicly. This is more than just saying thanks guys for doing a good job. Being specific and discriminating about the behaviours that are praise worthy has had good results. I suspect that some of the issue we might have had in a couple minor areas were due to not applying proper emphasis and praise like we did the past couple previous years.