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February 15, 2010

How to Train Summer Camp Staffs

Category: International Summer Camp Tip – admin – 2:32 am

As a summer camp organizers, it is your responsibility to organize and train the camp’s staffs so that no parents would react or would not trust your camp because they are not satisfied with your activities. Since summer is again about to come, there are again expected lots of teens, kids, young adults and special child who would indulge in a summer camp program. Before things get complicated, planning ahead of time some ideas that would stimulate every camper’s mind is necessary, and you should start it by training your staffs.

If you are planning to organize a summer camp program, camp leadership training should be the first training that you should share with your staffs. In training your staffs, it is necessary that you would train them that engaged a hands-on training. This is very important, because they will be the ones who would share what they had learned from you to the campers.

As an organizer, the firs thing that should do is to divide your staffs into smaller groups like 3-5 people.

The second thing is to hand each group a piece of long butcher paper. The height of the paper should be as long as the height of anybody from the group.

Let that someone lay down on the paper and let the group trace the body of that person.

Each of the group should draw a perfect camp counselor, such like drawing a huge watch of his wrist in order for that counselor always on time.

Give the staffs of at least 10-15 minutes limit of time to re-convene and share their skills and talents. This is one of the good ways how to determine the best group counselor.

After letting them draw what should a responsible counselor be, hang up the drawings in front of them so that they will know what should a expected counselor should be.

Though these are just some simple tips however, it could help you find the best camp counselor that would help you organize everything when a summer camp program is already operating.

1 Comment »

  1. It is useful to try everything in practice anyway and I like that here it’s always possible to find something new. :)

    Comment by silversrt — March 31, 2010 @ 3:23 pm

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