Nature Camp Counselor: Summer Camp 2024 - Cupertino, United States - Inspire Behavioral Learning, LLC

Description

Do you love working with children? Do you love the outdoors, nature, and hiking? Are you passionate about children's books, reading, and writing? How about combining your passions into one fun seasonal job? At Inspire Behavioral Learning, LLC, we are looking for a camp counselor to work with kids in grades K-5 at Rancho San Antonio County Park in Cupertino, CA. We seek an energetic, adaptable, creative, and dependable outdoor enthusiast to join us in creating and implementing educational programs outdoors. Camp counselors lead children in outdoor
Call of the Wild Camps. Our nature camps are for kids to hike, read, write, explore, learn, and play in forests of the Bay Area


Our ideal camp counselor is a communicative and collaborative team player bursting with creative ideas, fun, adaptable, friendly, outgoing, energetic, and eager to inspire and engage children in learning by doing. Strong nature camp counselors have experience in early childhood education, elementary school education, special education, outdoor education, environmental education, literacy education, recreation, outdoor recreation, and related fields.


WHO WE ARE:

Inspire Behavioral Learning, LLC believes that to inspire learning is to inspire action We do this by moving individuals to learn in ways that are personally meaningful, motivating, and relevant to their entire lives.

WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE:

• We value diversity and include children with disabilities and typically developing children alike in our programs.
• We value the integrity of the whole person and are dedicated to a wellrounded blend of head, heart, and body being constant learners, kind and caring, and focused on learning by doing.
• We incorporate emergent curriculum and principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA), the science of learning that focuses on observable interaction between the learner and environment.
• We are a small company focused on quality over quantity. Each employee is valued as a whole person and a unique individual, which is the same respect we give to each student. We use 360 degree feedback, in which everyone's observations matter.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Reliably attend and actively participate in camp training online and onsite, rain or shine (training is the week before the first session of the season you are hired to work)
• Reliably and punctually attend outdoor nature camps onsite, rain or shine, M-F, Jun 24Aug 2, 8:25 AM4:35 PM (except July 4th is a day off)
• Safely lead hikes for K5th graders in small groups up to approximately 6 mi./day
• Maintain a 4:1 or 5:1 student: staff ratio
• Lead outdoor language arts activities for children with nature and wilderness themes, including circle time with story time and singing, literary showandtell, skits, nature journaling, mapmaking, creative writing, and authoring and illustrating books
• Engage children in outdoor activities that blend recreation and education, such as naturethemed field games, hide and seek and chase games, forest "I Spy" games, and scavenger hunts
• Facilitate naturethemed arts and crafts with children
• Engage children with a fun teaching style and high energy, creativity, adaptability, spontaneity, dynamism, and positivity
• Supervise and facilitate children's rest breaks, snack and lunch breaks, and physical play breaks
• Provide naturalistic executive function teaching across diverse activities
• Implement teaching and behavior management based on principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA), including prompting, positive reinforcement, and contingencies of reinforcement based on student preferences and choices
• Facilitate emergent curriculum and childcentered, studentcentered, naturalistic, incidental, and playbased teaching and learning opportunities
• Work closely and cooperatively with the Camp Director in creating and implementing both structured and naturalistic learning opportunities for the camp schedule
• Keep work materials neat, organized, and in good working condition
• Record accurate, objective incident reports
• Follow all health and safety requirements, and make sure campers follow them
• Follow leave no trace principles, and make sure campers follow them
• Actively contribute and participate in staff training and meetings
• Proactively communicate camp questions and concerns to the camp director and supervisor
• Follow directions and implement feedback from supervisors
• Interact with students and staff in a kind, caring, respectful, positive, and professional manner
• Represent Call of the Wild Camps in a positive and professional manner with customers, staff, and park visitors
• Perform other duties as assigned

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

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Education:_

• Provide proof of your high school diploma or higher degree
• Provide your academic transcripts (unofficial transcripts are permitted) in good standing

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Certification and Safety Requirements:_

• Provide proof of full COVID19 vaccination
• Pass a DOJ