.Job Title: Camp Teacher (Language Instructor and Group Leader)Reports to: Activity Coordinator and Headteacher/senior teacher and at times Camp Director.Responsible for: Groups of around 12 children.As one of the best English learning summer camps in Spain, if not in Europe, we pride ourselves on the quality of our classes.
The main role of a summer camp teacher is to thoroughly plan and execute 4 hours of top quality English classes to their class of approximately 12 kids each day.
TECS uses our resources and custom course books specific to each camp, age group, and level, which have been developed by teachers over the years.
Along with our excellent resources, we provide an intensive training week for teachers and ongoing support and professional development from our mid-managers to ensure that teachers are able to succeed in creating the most fun, dynamic, and learning-centered classes possible for their group of campers.However, teachers on TECS Summer Camps don't just teach and plan; they are also involved in other parts of the day with the campers such as supervising meal times, showers, running arts & crafts or project sessions, and they will even cover for monitors putting to bed/waking up the kids (and sleeping in the same room as them) twice a week.Camp teachers need to be young, or young at heart, individuals who are full of imagination, passion, and energy in order to meet the extraordinary demands of camp work.Job Responsibilities + Tasks- Teach up to 4 hours of English as a Foreign Language to an allocated group of around 10-13 children.
(The age and level of the group will be determined before the Camp and communicated to you to assist in your planning.
)- Plan and organise the above-mentioned classes, doing as much planning as you can before coming to camp.- Monitor the progress of the students and keep a record of progress.- Read the camp manuals and familiarise yourself with all areas of the camp programme before your arrival.- Ensure the effective supervision and safety of the campers.- Eat lunch and dinner with the assigned leader group, maintaining proper table control and manners and ensuring that each child eats sufficiently.- Actively supervise campers during sand pit time, chill out time, and zone time.- Run Arts and Crafts or Project sessions, ensuring quality of activity and that children exercise respectful behaviour at all times.- Supervise showers as assigned.- Actively supervise and participate in the evening activities as assigned.- Teachers have planning time in the evenings from Monday to Thursday (aside from the night in which they will run the evening entertainment with the teachers).
During this time they will plan lessons, share and develop resources, create evening entertainments and special English events for the campers, and receive feedback from their coordinator