How being a camp counselor prepared me for classroom teaching
Starting when I was 15, I was a camp counselor for five consecutive summers. I realized it taught me a lot about being a teacher! Here are a few reasons why: 1. 1. That threshold of embarrassment was crossed really quickly. When working with children, you learn to get over any embarrassment at doing something you wouldn’t normally do in front of adults. At summer camp, that comes even quicker. It seems like you are parading from one hilarious thing to the other, and you must be their fearless leader in all of it. For example, as you can see in the picture below, one night in the cabin, the girls and I decided it would be a good idea to pull our shirts over our heads and draw mustaches on ourselves while dancing to Jason Derulo. ...