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Designing A Camp Program By Gary Forster This past summer I sent out a new curriculum for camps to consider. It included activities for counselors to help campers learn and practice the skills required to make friends. The concepts were well received. I learned which activities were judged the easiest to implement, and which were viewed as too complicated. I was shocked, however, by the most common remark of the camp directors I interviewed: “We can’t tell our counselors to do specific activities.” My first thought was, “Who’s the boss at your camp? What do you mean you can’t tell counselors what to do?” Fortunately, I didn’t say it out loud. From their viewpoint, they were powerless. Apparently their schedules are either too rigid (no time for counselors to do anything with their cabins), or too loose (kids do whatever they want every day). But the result is the same--counselors don’t have any time to just “do stuff” with their campers, and the directors don’t think they have the ability to change that. Kate McCulley |
