Academic Summer Camps Feature Accelerated Learning Methods

Few academic summer camps or teen summer camps can accomplish the transformation in high school and middle school students that SuperCamp is able to achieve in just 10 days. The secret to SuperCamp's success is that it is based on Accelerated Learning methods.

Accelerated Learning is a systematic approach to teaching the whole person. It is multifaceted, encompassing a wide variety of creative methods and techniques based on current theories and research of how people learn best.

Developed in the mid-1970's, Accelerated Learning is based on the work of Dr. Georgi Lozanov, a professor with a specialty in psychiatry and psychotherapy from Bulgaria, now living in Austria. His early program focused on learning a foreign language that included relaxation, visual arts, and music. It produced noteworthy results. Students learned from one hundred to one thousand new vocabulary words a day with 98 percent retention or better. The potential seemed limitless.

At the root of Lozanov's work is the idea that suggestions can and do affect the outcome of learning. Some of the ways to reinforce learning are: creating a positive environment, using music, active and passive concert readings, posters and artifacts, increasing active individual participation, and having a well trained teacher in the use of these methods. Numerous variants and syntheses of Lozanov's original work are now applied to all subjects and referred to as Accelerated Learning.

Using Accelerated Learning methods, SuperCamp facilitators in all of the summer camp programs empower campers to learn faster, more effectively and with more joy. Research shows that accelerated learning techniques can enhance retention and performance, and that students who use accelerated learning methods become more effective learners. Content becomes more meaningful and is remembered longer.

The power of Accelerated Learning at SuperCamp comes in the orchestration of how its methods and techniques come together to create effective, meaningful and joyful learning. SuperCamp incorporates the use of music, art and color as well as a focus on the physical environment, emotional atmosphere, languaging and more.

The method derived from Accelerated Learning that is used at SuperCamp and in schools across the U.S. is called Quantum Learning. Over 40,000 teachers have been trained in Quantum Learning methods and over four million students have been impacted through schools and SuperCamp.

More information on SuperCamp is available at its summer camp website and by calling 800-285-3276.