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Curricular Teams: A New Wrinkle in Foreign Language Camps
Author(s) -
Shrum Judith L.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1985.tb01795.x
Subject(s) - german , foreign language , staffing , psychology , pedagogy , first language , team teaching , linguistics , teaching method , political science , philosophy , law
The Foreign Language Camps at Virginia Tech have operated since 1981 providing week‐long immersion experiences for approximately 150 high school students of French, German, and Spanish. This report describes a staffing concept and differentiated reward system at the Virginia Tech Camps: a curricular team composed of a high school teacher, a native speaker, and a junior counselor. This team effectively combines the unique expertise of each member: the teacher's knowledge and experience in teaching adolescents a target language; the native speaker's first‐hand knowledge of language and culture; the junior counselor's experiences as a target language learner who is almost one of the campers' peers.