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I must admit though that I found my first experience of summer school teaching intense and exhausting at times! But having successfully completed the 6-week course, here are some top tips I would like to share to help others get the most out of their summer placement:<\/p>\n
1. Compare summer schools<\/strong> to find one that suits your strengths and interests. I\u2019m not big on conducting sporting activities, so I opted for a summer school with a strong focus on classroom teaching.<\/p>\n 2. Seek out reviews or feedback<\/strong> from past teaching staff where possible. The setting, from the location through to how the school was organised was not exactly what I had anticipated, although I eventually got my bearings.<\/p>\n 3. Be clear about the school\u2019s expectations<\/strong> of staff, and who you can go to for support. My 6-week contract consisted of double teaching, which I coordinated with another teacher.<\/p>\n 4. Plan in adequate preparation time, and ask for support<\/strong> if your workload gets too heavy. During my placement the school introduced some evening activities to give teachers the chance to mingle with fellow students. A nice initiative in theory, but in reality the time spent doing these activities ended up cutting into my lesson preparation and free-time!<\/p>\n 5. Adopt an open, communicative approach<\/strong> with your students and fellow staff. Remember, the concept of a summer school is to create a fun and pleasant environment for both students and teachers \u2013 the above is key to this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Financially, I just couldn\u2019t get through another year without a salary during the summer so, after toying with the idea for a few years, I decided to do a placement at a summer school.<\/p>\n I was fortunate to have lovely students and like-minded teaching colleagues \u2013 essential to making teaching at a summer school a rewarding and stimulating experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Krhd-Co","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12420,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/12420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Summer](\"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-content\/uploads\/articles\/5-tips-summer-school-teaching\/summer-school-2.jpg\" "\\"Summer")
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