Academic Summer Camp Identifies Students’ Learning Styles

Not all academic summer camps are created equal. Like other summer academic programs SuperCamp provides its campers with valuable new academic skills. But SuperCamp goes that extra mile by helping participants figure out their optimal learning style, which gives each student long-term value to their 10 days at camp.

Using some of the principles outlined by Dr. Barbara Given, a pioneer in the field of education, in her book, Learning Styles: A Guide for Teachers & Parents, SuperCamp explains the five separate learning systems to students: emotional, social, cognitive, physical and reflective.

According to Dr. Given, the term “learning styles” pertains to the ways people consistently interact with new information, including how they select, make sense of, recall and use input from all that is available to them both internally and externally. Dr. Given says learning styles are considered to be stable behaviors, though they may change with maturity.

In addition to finding out about their learning style, students at SuperCamp also gain valuable insight into such important life skills as critical thinking, time management, communication, leadership and team-building.

In 2008, SuperCamp will be held throughout the summer at eight U.S. colleges, where students stay on-campus for the duration of the 7-10 day programs. Camps are age- and grade-specific, and include Youth Forum for children entering grades 4 and 5 in the fall, Junior Forum for kids going into grades 6-8 and Senior Forum for teens entering grades 9-12.

More information on SuperCamp’s programs is available at http://www.supercamp.com/ and by calling 800-285-3276.