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icnelly
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: Public School camps |
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What's the info about summer/winter camps? Basically just asking for personal experience with these, as I've heard they are quite different between schools and districts.
My CT has never been the main handler before and she is new to the school as well, and I'm the first NET they've had. My school is in Bucheon.
She has the vague idea about me teaching for 4 weeks during the vacation at my school; I would run a week per grade (all my usual students from school.) But, there has been no further discussion, or anything concrete.
I've also heard that you usually teach your typical students for a week or two, and then go to a designated camp area for a week or two.
What's typical?
Any other info? |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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I've done a 3 week camp at my school. I was the only person in the building besides the students. It took me 3 days to write lesson plans for the 3 weeks. I did fun, but education activities, like:
Picnic day: How to prepare a picnic and following instructions, and eating.
Card game day: How to play Go Fish and Texas Hold 'Em
Play day: Read through a script together, everyone has a different part.
TV day: Watch an English show, no subtitles, and have the students answer questions about it. "Where did Homer put his pants?" "On the dog."
Myspace day: Students create a myspace page in the PC lab and talk to each other on it. I also created a dummy account to talk with them through (they don't need my real info, nor the nasty comments that are on it.)
Show and tell day: Everyone brings something and has a list of things they must say about it.
Hope this gives you some ideas! |
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icnelly
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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I'm looking for personal situations minus the complaining...
My school has never done this before, so if I can negotiate how long the camps will be, I would like to.
Has anyone done that before? My CT is thinking 4 weeks, which only leaves 10 days to take my vacation time. I'd like to see if I can negotiate for a 2-3 week school camp, which might give me extra time off.
How do I go about negotiating without making myself look like a ass?
Anyone know about the extra camps out of your school? The lodging provided with another foreigner deal??
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icnelly
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Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Bibbitybop! So many people are writing their own curriculum for these. Anyone use a specific book for it?
I taught New Parade in China, and they are adaptable. |
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icnelly
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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I was thinking of doing the picnic day, but more along the lines of a sandwich day. You can teach a song from Ddeubel's site: the sandwich song is great.
And, i was going to teach 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and just chill out with PB&Js.. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject: Re: Public School camps |
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| icnelly wrote: |
What's the info about summer/winter camps? Basically just asking for personal experience with these, as I've heard they are quite different between schools and districts.
My CT has never been the main handler before and she is new to the school as well, and I'm the first NET they've had. My school is in Bucheon.
She has the vague idea about me teaching for 4 weeks during the vacation at my school; I would run a week per grade (all my usual students from school.) But, there has been no further discussion, or anything concrete.
I've also heard that you usually teach your typical students for a week or two, and then go to a designated camp area for a week or two.
What's typical?
Any other info? |
This is a repost from last year... I hope it can be of some help now.
How about a start on the first 20 hours? I also posted this in another thread so my apologies to those who get to read it twice.
In order to kill the boredom I have decided to base our school's camp on a number of daily themes. These are LOW budget but fun and have enough variety to keep even the most bored students of any level (elementary to high school) busy for a few hours. Just adjust the material for the appropriate age / ability level.
If you have 2 camps - 1 each week with different students then you can recycle materials and themes. You can expand this to more days by adding more themes.
Day 1 - Magic day. Put them into small groups and get them to learn some simple magic tricks AND the DIALOGUE that goes with it.
For the last hour of the day we will have a magic show.
Day 2 - Simple first aid classes. Learn the basics of first aid. Do this as a hands on activity rather than just lectures. They can use triangular bandages to splint each other up and bandage each other. It will easily take 4 hours. Show how to make a simple first aid kit.
Day 3 - Have a science day. Make rockets out of 600ml soda bottles or juice bottles. Give small prizes for best designs and best flights. Power them with vinegar and baking soda. Do other science projects and tie the project to the language.
Day 4 - Circus day. Create carnival style games of chance and have them compete. Use language activities to "earn" tickets to play. Face painting and fun for all.
Day 5 - Campfire - fun day - do your video here just for fun. Then do some skits around a makeshift campfire. Play with the day and have fun.
Day 6+ continue with this basic format. Add and fill as needed.
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wylies99
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Are these camps done at all grades? My hogwan seems to get a lot of younger kids during these breaks but not older kids, |
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trubadour
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 6:16 am Post subject: |
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Is it just me or are both those threads hilarious?! |
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ttompatz
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
| Are these camps done at all grades? My hogwan seems to get a lot of younger kids during these breaks but not older kids, |
Imn my experience, hakwon camps are simply intensive ESL sessions with books and no fun.
Our public school "camps" are run for one week each and 2 grades per week.
So as an example, week one, hours are 9-12, ages are grade 1 and 2.
Week 2 of the vacation break would be grade 3/4.
Week 3 would be grade 5/6.
The activities are designed for TASK BASED or TPR learning scenarios.
We have no books for the camps and usually they do not need a pencil.
For the older kids we do similar things as the ones for the younger kids but scale the activities and vocab up to their level.
For a similar model, think of the parks and rec summer day camps that are held in your home city. Vocal, noisy and fun.
Just because something is noisy and fun does not mean it is not a learning experience. |
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icnelly
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| wylies99 wrote: |
| Are these camps done at all grades? My hogwan seems to get a lot of younger kids during these breaks but not older kids, |
Just because something is noisy and fun does not mean it is not a learning
experience. |
Cheers to that! And it's seems from what you're saying it's a time when you can run the show and do the noisy-fun-interactive games/activites that you might not always get the chance to do/use during the typical semester. |
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icnelly
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| wylies99 wrote: |
| Are these camps done at all grades? My hogwan seems to get a lot of younger kids during these breaks but not older kids, |
Imn my experience, hakwon camps are simply intensive ESL sessions with books and no fun.
Our public school "camps" are run for one week each and 2 grades per week.
So as an example, week one, hours are 9-12, ages are grade 1 and 2.
Week 2 of the vacation break would be grade 3/4.
Week 3 would be grade 5/6.
The activities are designed for TASK BASED or TPR learning scenarios.
We have no books for the camps and usually they do not need a pencil.
For the older kids we do similar things as the ones for the younger kids but scale the activities and vocab up to their level.
For a similar model, think of the parks and rec summer day camps that are held in your home city. Vocal, noisy and fun.
Just because something is noisy and fun does not mean it is not a learning experience. |
So in 1 week you have two grades, but how is the time split? I heard you will only be asked to teach half days during your public school camps. So according to that each grade has 2 hrs, or could it be full days with 1 grade in the morning, and 1 grade in the afternoon? |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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OP,
You didn't say if you were an elementary, middle or high school teacher. Maybe I just missed that part. In any event, I teach at an elementary school.
My summer camp is about 2 weeks long from 9am-4pm Monday- Saturday.
I (the only native teacher at the school) and 2 other English teachers plus 3 co-teachers worked at the camp. I had students from generally 3rd - 6th grade with the exception of 1 or 2 students. There were 30-40 kids. I had to make the general curriculum myself.
The different teachers were free to change and modify things in their own class. This meant that when the kids were put all together for a group activity they learned different vocabulary or phrases from the other students.
It was a VERY long camp.
The winter camp was for a week from 9am - 4pm. I was the only NET and I had a coteacher. I had one class with 12 students.
For both summer and winter camp, we went through different things such as
Food
Going to a restaurant
Parts of the body
Songs
Grammar (but in very small doses)
Sports
Arts and crafts
Journal writing
Making a newspaper
Writing a movie review
I didn't have a formal book. I found or made different handouts for each theme as needed...A real hard chore I found since I didn't know which students would be in the camp until after I had finalized my lesson plans. So lots of things ultimately were left at the discretion of the individual teachers....
Hope this info helped a bit and best of luck!
AlyAllen |
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icnelly
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Alyallen wrote: |
OP,
You didn't say if you were an elementary, middle or high school teacher. Maybe I just missed that part. In any event, I teach at an elementary school.
My summer camp is about 2 weeks long from 9am-4pm Monday- Saturday.
I (the only native teacher at the school) and 2 other English teachers plus 3 co-teachers worked at the camp. I had students from generally 3rd - 6th grade with the exception of 1 or 2 students. There were 30-40 kids. I had to make the general curriculum myself.
The different teachers were free to change and modify things in their own class. This meant that when the kids were put all together for a group activity they learned different vocabulary or phrases from the other students.
It was a VERY long camp.
The winter camp was for a week from 9am - 4pm. I was the only NET and I had a coteacher. I had one class with 12 students.
For both summer and winter camp, we went through different things such as
Food
Going to a restaurant
Parts of the body
Songs
Grammar (but in very small doses)
Sports
Arts and crafts
Journal writing
Making a newspaper
Writing a movie review
I didn't have a formal book. I found or made different handouts for each theme as needed...A real hard chore I found since I didn't know which students would be in the camp until after I had finalized my lesson plans. So lots of things ultimately were left at the discretion of the individual teachers....
Hope this info helped a bit and best of luck!
AlyAllen |
 Sorry about that...I'm working at an elementary school.
Why the sixth day? Were these kids your typical students or different kids altogether? |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| icnelly wrote: |
| Alyallen wrote: |
OP,
You didn't say if you were an elementary, middle or high school teacher. Maybe I just missed that part. In any event, I teach at an elementary school.
My summer camp is about 2 weeks long from 9am-4pm Monday- Saturday.
I (the only native teacher at the school) and 2 other English teachers plus 3 co-teachers worked at the camp. I had students from generally 3rd - 6th grade with the exception of 1 or 2 students. There were 30-40 kids. I had to make the general curriculum myself.
The different teachers were free to change and modify things in their own class. This meant that when the kids were put all together for a group activity they learned different vocabulary or phrases from the other students.
It was a VERY long camp.
The winter camp was for a week from 9am - 4pm. I was the only NET and I had a coteacher. I had one class with 12 students.
For both summer and winter camp, we went through different things such as
Food
Going to a restaurant
Parts of the body
Songs
Grammar (but in very small doses)
Sports
Arts and crafts
Journal writing
Making a newspaper
Writing a movie review
I didn't have a formal book. I found or made different handouts for each theme as needed...A real hard chore I found since I didn't know which students would be in the camp until after I had finalized my lesson plans. So lots of things ultimately were left at the discretion of the individual teachers....
Hope this info helped a bit and best of luck!
AlyAllen |
Sorry about that...I'm working at an elementary school.
Why the sixth day? Were these kids your typical students or different kids altogether? |
I just came across this old thread....
What do you mean by sixth day?
The students were generally my typical students. The exceptions I spoke of for the summer camp were kids in the 2nd grade that I never taught. |
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