Training Camp Counselors as Leaders: Course Helps Counselors Earn College Credit.

LaFave, Robert; Loughran, Sandra Buck

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ERIC Number: EJ627025

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Publication Date: 2001

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Training Camp Counselors as Leaders: Course Helps Counselors Earn College Credit.

LaFave, Robert; Loughran, Sandra Buck

Camping Magazine, v74 n2 p36-39 Mar-Apr 2001

To increase its counselor retention rate, a New York camp developed a course for counselors that focuses on leadership training and earns participants college credit. The class teaches situational leadership and focuses on the camper, not the activity. Course curriculum and objectives, course elements, and lessons learned about program improvement are discussed. (TD)

Descriptors: Camping, Job Training, Leadership Training, Nonschool Educational Programs, Outdoor Leadership, Resident Camp Programs, Staff Development, Staff Orientation

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Language: English

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