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Articles tagged "learning skills":
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Especially during tough times, young people need to know they can talk freely with someone they trust to really listen - someone who they feel is "on their team." Trust and security are created through acceptance, traditions, sharing, and a sense of belonging. At SuperCamp, our campers open up so freely and talk so deeply in our programs because we create this environment. Everything we do is on purpose.
At Summer Camp, Students Learn That It's Fun And Exciting Outside Of Their Comfort Zone
Everybody's familiar with the concept of the comfort zone. It's where we live most of the time. At SuperCamp, campers describe what it's like inside their comfort zones: comfortable, safe, familiar, and... boring.
Summer Camp Gets Rid Of Negative Self-Image
You don't have to look far into a group of young people to see examples of all the things they do to create an image. It's in their clothing, music, language, attitude, hair, make-up, hobbies - even in their choice of friends. Why do people have an image?
If It's To Be, It's Up To Me: Setting Extraordinary Goals
No dream ever comes true, no obstacle is ever overcome, no goal is ever reached without focused action. Yet young people are seldom specifically taught how to set and pursue goals.
If It's To Be, It's Up To Me: Setting Extraordinary Goals
No dream ever comes true, no obstacle is ever overcome, no goal is ever reached without focused action. Yet young people are seldom specifically taught how to set and pursue goals.
Academic Summer Camp Teaches Students The Importance Of Motivation
Motivation is different from self-discipline. According to SuperCamp facilitator John LeTellier, self-discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, when you don't want to do it. Motivation is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, when you want to do it. Motivation has passion in it.
I Hear You, I'm Catching On, I've Got The Picture
Young people often sense that there's a disconnect between them and their teachers, but they seldom know what's behind it. Frustrated teachers often assume that a student is being lazy or impertinent even though he or she is really trying to learn.
Summer Camps Give Students The Confidence They Need To Be Successful
Campers come out of our programs sparkling with confidence because they've come face to face with their own success. We don't leave it to chance, belief, or wishful thinking. We let them experience for themselves just how good they are. We build in opportunities for them to succeed. They don't just believe they can be successful, they know it - because they've done it.
Tests? Bring 'em On! Academic Summer Camp Makes Test-Taking Easy
What comes up for you when you hear the word "test"? I'll never make it. I'm going to fail. I need to go to the nurse. These are typical responses we hear from students.
What's School Like For My Teen?
We learn a lot from parents. They often observe how much easier it is to talk about school with their sons and daughters after SuperCamp. Before, when parents brought up the subject of schoolwork, their teens tended to get reactionary: "Here it comes: the big lecture. It's all for my future, yadda yadda." But after camp, many of them can hardly stop talking about their school experiences.
Nine Easy Ways To Get Those A's
Students who attend SuperCamp's teen summer camps acquire many valuable learning and life skills. Here are some Quantum Learning tips that can help every student do better in school. Share them with your son or daughter.
Help Your Teen Through The Rough Patches - Ten Hot Tips
We see changes in kids every summer at our SuperCamp academic summer camps where we teach learning and life skills that help them know themselves, like themselves, and learn better. During our more than 25 years of running these summer programs we have learned lots and lots about teens and their problems—and how adults can help them through those sometimes rough years.
HELP YOUR KIDS LEARN - Create A Positive Study Environment
Parents can support and encourage their children's successful learning by helping them create a positive study environment. Here are some of the ideas we give to parents of children who have attended SuperCamp,
Quantum Learning Network president, Bobbi DePorter, calls making the most of every moment "This is IT!" Over 25 years ago, Bobbi developed the 8 Keys of Excellence, which students who attend SuperCamp, a worldwide learning and life skills summer camp program, are exposed to. "This is IT!" is one of the Keys.
Communication Is A Key To Success For Students
Teens at the summer academic program, SuperCamp, learn how important effective communication is in life and are given advice on how to improve their communication skills. Here are some of the tips they learn.
Live in INTEGRITY is the first of the 8 Keys of Excellence campers learn about when they attend SuperCamp's learning and life skills camps each summer.
Teen Summer Camp Teaches The Four-Part Apology
Teens are taught the Four-Part Apology, a very effective communication tool with friends, family, fellow students, even teachers.
As a teen you may already have encountered peer pressure ... if you're approaching your teens, it's something you may face fairly soon. During the 26 years of conducting learning and life skills summer camp programs, the educators of SuperCamp have learned quite a lot about the problems that teens face. Peer pressure is something that teens find very hard to deal with so the SuperCamp team has come up with some suggestions.
Summer Camp Tells Kids How To Keep Balance In Their Lives
At SuperCamp, the learning and life skills summer camps for students in grades 4 through 12, kids learn about the 8 Keys of Excellence. SuperCamp co-founder, Bobbi DePorter, has lived the 8 Keys for more than 25 years. They are principles of behavior that inspire people to try great things—and succeed. These Keys have the power to constantly propel you forward and to help bring purpose, meaning and fulfillment to your life and your work.
Teen Summer Camp Explains How Failure Leads To Success
Teens at our academic summer camp, SuperCamp, find out an important life lesson when we talk to them about how failure leads to success. Our failures provide us with valuable gifts—they give us the information we need to learn so that we can succeed next time.