Parents are asking the hard questions as they evaluate the best options in terms of summer enrichment programs for their students this summer. Are academic summer camps right for your son or daughter? Who goes to an academic summer camp? How do you achieve lasting results in less than two weeks? What learning skills does an academic summer camp cover?
One summer enrichment camp, SuperCamp, which is in its twenty-eighth year of operation and has graduated over 50,000 students, answers parents most common questions.
SuperCamp’s participants are similar to students in a typical classroom. While students' grades range from straight A's to failing, the majority are somewhere in between. High achievers say they appreciate gaining learning skills that reduce their study time, refine communication strategies, and life skills that enhance their relationships. Students who are struggling due to low motivation, self-esteem and/or poor grades discover new techniques to help them hurdle the barriers that blocked their progress in the past.
Students benefit at all ages from SuperCamp’s summer academic programs, which is why SuperCamp offers three age-specific programs for students entering grades 6-8 in the fall, those entering grades 9-12 and students entering and already in college.
SuperCamp achieves remarkable academic results and behavioral transformations with the students because, unlike most summer camp programs, SuperCamp has the students twenty-four hours a day for ten days in an orchestrated learning environment that uses a very specific design frame. A prime directive of SuperCamp is that the program seeks to get into the students' world and understand them, which builds trust and earns us the right to teach. Throughout the ten days, we build on mini-successes, so by the end of the camp we are celebrating the students' successes.
SuperCamp helps in college preparation in several ways. First is the experience of living away from home in a collegiate setting. Second, the camp focuses on the process of assuming responsibility and accountability in one's life, as well as honing study and learning skills and mastery of tests, including the SAT. Additionally, students have written about what they learned about themselves at SuperCamp on college essays.
The 10-day program covers Quantum Study Strategies, including meeting deadlines, test-taking skills, study skills, Math Mastery, Quantum Reading, Quantum Writing, Quantum Note-Taking and Mind Mapping, Quantum Memory, and SAT/ACT Preview.
More information on SuperCamp’s 2009 teen summer camps are available at the SuperCamp website and by calling 800-285-3276.
