Summer Academic Programs Adapted For Schools

The content and teaching methods used in SuperCamp’s summer academic programs also are used to train teachers and students in over 30 states in the U.S. and in several other countries worldwide.

Based on the success teachers were seeing in students who had attended the academic summer camps, educators approached SuperCamp president, Bobbi DePorter, and asked her if she could develop similar training for their schools. With the help of key facilitators, Ms. DePorter took the Quantum Learning methodology used so successfully in SuperCamp's summer enrichment programs and developed programs for teachers, students and school administrators.

In 1991 the first Quantum Learning school program was implemented in Georgia. Today, over 30,000 teachers have been trained in Quantum Learning and more than two million students have been positively impacted by SuperCamp’s Quantum Learning methods.

SuperCamp uses a highly orchestrated methodology that is implemented over its 10-day summer program. Information is chunked into digestible pieces, segments on learning skills are interspersed with life skills lessons and physical challenges to keep the campers’ brains stimulated and to optimize long-term retention.

Group size varies throughout the day, also to keep the environment dynamic. Segments can involve a full contingent of 120 campers, partial groups of 30 to 40 students, or teams of 10 to 12 individuals with their team leaders. Extensive use of music, an on-going presence of bright colors and inclusion of interactivity between facilitators and campers also keep attention at a maximum.

The depth of instruction is geared to the specific age and grade level of students. There are four levels of SuperCamp programs. The Youth Forum program introduces learning and life skills concepts that are developed more deeply for Junior Forum students and for SuperCamp’s teen summer camps for high schoolers. Quantum U, for incoming college students, takes it another level further again.

Everything about SuperCamp and the Quantum Learning methods used at camp are based on extensive brain research, relating to how one’s brain best receives and retains new information.

SuperCamp’s eight U.S. camps will be held on college campuses in 2008, from Stanford in the west to Cornell in the east. Camps are filling up rapidly, so families interested in enrolling one or more children for the summer should act now by visiting http://www.supercamp.com/ or calling 800-285-3276.