Tomorrow is the last day of the summer camp...and while it really has gone very quickly I will be very glad to have it over. I think three weeks is about the right length. You can get things done but you are just starting to develop classroom issues with the trouble makers because they are getting comfortable (and even in a half day summer camp for gifted students there are the occasional trouble makers).
Here are the stats:
We had approximately 210 kids.
We had 12 lead teachers and just under 20 preservice teachers.
There were 3 master teachers and 2 supervising teachers
There were 2 professors and 1 materials coordinator (for lack of a better title).
Of all of those people there were 6 with children (or grandchildren) attending the program and three who are pregnant (ranging from 6 weeks along to 30 weeks). There were exactly 2 males involved as teachers (If you want to meet lots of women...become a teacher).
The topics for the courses included the Rain forest, Africa, flight, digital photography, art, the West, circus, drama, puzzles, and physics.
One day we managed to load all of the students in about 13 minutes during the car rider line.
I only had 4 typos in names from the registration, 1 person who I had listed in two different classes depending on which list you looked at, two people I had to move in classes because a parent was upset about the child's placement, and one person whose mom had filled out his preferences and he was unhappy in a class.
Hopefully the parent day will go smoothly tomorrow and then I can actually get on with my life....
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