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Section 6
Teaching the Pathfinder
Curriculum
1. Understanding
Creativity
2. Teaching the Pathfinder Curriculum
Creatively

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Teaching the Pathfinder
Curriculum
Objective
To discover the importance and value of creative
approaches to teaching and to learn ways of
developing one’s own creative style of teaching.
To provide information on ways to teach the
Pathfinder curriculum in a creative manner.

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Understanding Creativity
a. Some of the purposes and values in the use of creative
purposes:
- It makes learning more enjoyable, lasting and
meaningful.
Teaching the Pathfinder
Curriculum
- It provides opportunity for self-expression and
development of creativity.
- It instills pride in accomplishment and builds
self-confidence.
- It contributes to the development of proper
self-concepts.
- It provides for participation in group situations
& reaction to established group approval and
behavior.
- It fulfills a Pathfinder’s needs for individual
expression.
- It relieves periods of physical restlessness with
meaningful activity, coordinating minds and

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Understanding Creativity
b. Steps in a creative process:
Teaching the Pathfinder
Curriculum
1. Preparation (Orientation)
- What is the problems and what are the
approaches?
- Some errors
2. Frustration — Adapted by
- Repression ---
forget it
- Regression --- retreat ( flight for
reality )
- Compensation --- let’s
substitute
- Emotional excess ( anger vs.
resignation )

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Curriculum
3. Achievement
- Developing a critical
attitude
4. Verification
- Intimation --- “It’s
coming!”
- Occasion --- “It’s here!”
- Developing an attitude toward the work
5. Evaluation
- Repeat the
process

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Teaching the Pathfinder
Curriculum
Teaching
Methods
Each class requirement will require a different approach,
depending on factors such as time of day, place, number of
participants, availability of resources, and similar factors.
Whenever possible, teachers should plan several alternative
teaching methods for each requirement, and use the one
best suited to the group and the occasion.
Before setting out to teach a class…consider the
following:
1. Study the class
curriculum
Teachers are encourage to be familiar with the
overall direction of the program... make sure you
understand the stated objective for the
requirement…

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USE THE CLASS TEACHERS MANUAL
AS YOUR GUIDE
ALL THE ANSWERS, LECTURE AND
SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO TEACH
THE CURRICULUM IS INDICATED IN
THE TEACHERS MANUAL

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EXAMPLE OF CONTENTS OF FRIEND
TEACHERS MANUAL

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Curriculum
, teachers should plan several alternative teaching methods
for each requirement, and use the one best suited to the
group and the occasion.
Before setting out to teach a class…consider the
following:
Get to know the details about the members of your
Pathfinder class/club. Who are they, what are their
learning abilities, and what are their attitudes to the
particular subjects? Are there any Pathfinders in
your group who requires extra help in learning
information?
2. Assess the number and needs of your
class

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Teaching the Pathfinder
Curriculum
Before setting out to teach a class…consider the
following:
Teachers will need to develop a suitable teaching
plan... Alternative teaching methods available for
teaching each requirement…availability of additional
resources and background
3. Work out your teaching plan

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inductio
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Personal
Growth
Spiritual
Discovery
Serving Others Making Friends Health & Fitness
Nature Study Outdoor Living
Camping
Field trip
Investiture

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EXAMPLE OF PATHFINDER CLASS
MEETING
Resource book: Pathfinder Admin. Manual

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Curriculum
Pathfinder Club Classes
(10 yrs. old &/or in
gr. 5)
(11 yrs. old &/or in
gr. 6)
(12 yrs. old &/or in
gr. 7)
(13 yrs. old &/or in
gr. 8)
(14 yrs. old &/or in
gr. 9)
(15 yrs. old &/or in gr.
10)

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Pathfinder Advanced Classes
The Advanced Classes such as Trail Friend, Trail
Companion, Wilderness Explorer, Wilderness Ranger,
Frontier Voyager and Frontier Guide are based on
outdoor skills. These classes are not to be done in the
school. These levels are best suited to the PF Club. To
be able to enjoy the out-of-doors and to be able to
meet emergencies are good reasons why these skills
should be taught by every club.
Pathfinder Club Advanced Classes Ribbon Bar
Pins

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Curriculum
Pathfinder / AY Honors Categories
A.D.R.A.
Arts, Crafts & Hobbies
Health & Science
Household Arts
Nature
Outdoor Industries
Recreation
Spiritual Growth, Outreach &
Heritage
Vocational

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Curriculum
Pathfinder Honors Master Awards
* Encourage each Pathfinders to
aim the Master Awards.
* A Pathfinder may earn a Master
Award by completing seven
Honors in a given category.

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SEARCH GOOGLE PATHFINDER HONORS -
WIKI

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LECTURES ON HONORS ARE AVAILABLE
ONLINE

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CHOOSE GENERAL
CONFERENCE FROM THE DROP
BOX

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Curriculum
Pathfinder Classes and School
The local church club director has the responsibility
to oversee the completion of all Pathfinder class
requirements where the church operates a school, the
director should go to the school and make
arrangements to work with the teachers in the
classwork, then continue to keep in touch with the
teachers to confirm the Pathfinders’ progress.
* Very Important: All Investiture services are to be
arranged by the local church PF Club director with
the Area Coordinator/ local Conference or Mission
Youth director.

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Pathfinder Classes and School
Where there is a church and a school dealing with many
of the same Pathfinder age children/youth,
- the local church Pathfinder Club and the school
teacher should work closely together in helping the
Pathfinders finish their class requirements,
- the school might sponsor memory work and reading
the required books,
- the local church PF Club could help with skills
requirements,
-the school can easily help the PF get a needed Honor
in connection with the regular PF classwork,
- then, the local church PF Club can help in getting
other needed Honors that are hard for the school to

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Investiture Services
It is the responsibilities of the church PF Club director
to ask the conference youth director to conduct the
Investiture service… All who are to be invested must
be able to present their Pathfinder Class requirement
card to be signed by the conference/mission youth
ministries director prior to the Investiture service.
Records are kept both by the local church PF Club and
the conference/mission Youth Ministries department
of all who receive certificates, honors, and pins.

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Teaching the Pathfinder
Curriculum
Pathfinder
Classes
I. General Requirements / Personal
Growth
- How can we help the Pathfinders learn “What they
are needing to know?”
- HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS
FUN!!?
II. Spiritual Discovery
- How can we help the Pathfinders learn “What they
are needing to know?”
- HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS
FUN!!?
III. Serving Others
- How can we help the Pathfinders learn “What they
are needing to know?”
- HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS
FUN!!?
* Pathfinder Classwork

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Curriculum
Pathfinder
Classes
* Pathfinder Classwork
- How can we help the Pathfinders learn “What they
are needing to know?”
- HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS
FUN!!?
- How can we help the Pathfinders learn “What they
are needing to know?”
- HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS
FUN!!?
- How can we help the Pathfinders learn “What they
are needing to know?”
- HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS
FUN!!?
IV. Friendship Development
V. Health and Fitness
VI. Organization and Leadership
Development

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Pathfinder
Classes
- How can we help the Pathfinders learn “What they
are needing to know?”
- HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS
FUN!!?
- How can we help the Pathfinders learn “What they
are needing to know?”
- HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS
FUN!!?
- How can we help the Pathfinders learn “What they
are needing to know?”
- HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS
FUN!!?
VII. Nature Study
VIII. Outdoor Life
IX. Lifestyle / Honor Enrichment
* Pathfinder Classwork

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“What are the Pathfinders expected to gain from this
requirement?”
Teaching the Pathfinder
Curriculum
“What is the best way I can help the
Pathfinders get there?”
• Reminder: Each Pathfinder Learns Differently
Discover how your Pathfinders learn best and you will
discover the best way to keep their attention.

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“The children are to be trained to become missionaries, they must
be helped to understand distinctly what they must do to be saved”
EGW, Counsels to Parents, Teachers
and Students, p. 168
”It is the harmonious development of the physical, the
mental, and the spiritual powers. It prepares the student for
the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of
wider service in the world to come.“
- EGW, Education, p. 13
Since both men and women have a part in home-making, boys as well as girls
should gain a knowledge of household duties. To make a bed and put a room in
order, to wash dishes, to prepare a meal, to wash and repair his own clothing, is a
training that need not make any boy less manly; it will make him happier and more
useful. And if girls, in turn, could learn to harness and [217] drive a horse, and to
use the saw and the hammer, as well as the rake and the hoe, they would be better
fitted to meet the emergencies of life. -EGW, Education, p.
216-217

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It was from the study of this and other similar messages that
the Pathfinder Classes were developed, and all the
requirements for these classes are based on this instruction.
They include, therefore, Bible and nature study, the learning
of useful and helpful things to do about the home, out-of-
door activities, first aid, personal and home hygiene, physical
fitness and service to others.
One of the main objectives of the PF Club is to
prepare the youth for life with its emergencies and
help the youth to become useful to both God and
man. The PF class program has been established with
this in mind. It therefore seems important to guide
the PF into this program of self-improvement.

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The Pathfinder Club helps the youth to find true happiness in
witnessing and to become a member of a great army of
Adventist youth whose talents and energies are committed to
Christ. They will be those whose hands are ready to grasp
any emergency and turn it to the glory of the Great Master
Guide Jesus Christ.
Thank you very much…God
Bless!

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