Work Abroad At English Language Summer Camps

Work Abroad at English Language Summer Camps

English Language Summer Camp Jobs

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We’ve highlighted working in summer camps in the USA elsewhere, but other countries have summer camps too. Outside of the States, the focus for participants is centred more on learning English rather than sports and outdoor activities.

The camps themselves can be a recreation of American style camps or styled more from within the culture of the host country. While the objective of these camps is to spread the English language to local children, traditional camp activities and sports are blended in to create an enjoyable learning environment. Regardless of job title, the role is usually a combination of teacher and camp counsellor.

Along with wages, meals and accommodation are provided and any fees for work visas are covered but flights are not. Some camp organisations are happy to or have to recruit from abroad while camps in Korea, for instance, are just as able to hire from the pool of native English speaking teachers already in the country.

France

Nacel’s American Village Camps are held in the spring, summer and a short autumn season and appeal to eight to 17 years olds interested in practising their English and learning more about Anglophone cultures. Or, perhaps more likely, they have parents interested in their practising English and learning more about Anglophone cultures. Camp counsellors are mostly North Americans tasked with recreating an ‘American camp’ environment and making it fun to speak in American English from the moment the campers arrive. Camp counselling, childcare or teaching experience is required but not French. And make sure to use correct English grammar and spelling on application.

Germany, Austria & Switzerland

If you love working with children, have an outgoing character, and are available from the end of June to mid August then Sunflower Sprachcamps offers free accommodation and a salary to English speaking instructors to teach English in an interactive and fun way. The camps take place in the German Alps. Another option is Fokus Camps.

Since the UK’s departure from the EU we note both these organisations have adapted their recruitment requirements from native English speakers to close to native speaker level. Alpadia Language Schools is another organisation to try. As well as Switzerland and Germany, they run camps in France too.

Switzerland, in particular, is home to many English language camps. Village Camps is active here but they also work in Canada, Austria and Portugal. Other vacancies aside from activity leaders include camp photographer and lifeguard. Altitude’s camps are solely in Verbier.

Italy

Most tutors working at the English Camp Company are university students from English speaking countries. They should be over 18, outgoing, organised, energetic and responsible and preferably able to stay the whole summer, from June to August. They also have camps in Austria. Lingue Senza Frontiere and Bell Beyond are other options. Camp staff tend to be transported between camps in Italy, with accommodation provided locally by host families.

You Can Camp runs a day camp and a Kids&Teens Village. This week or two week long full immersion programme is the English Village type talking for hotel accommodation and food package that has gained popularity in the past decade in several countries in Europe.

Spain

The English summer in Spain when swathes of the coast turn into English speaking enclaves is thought to have began in the 1950s. British European Airways introduced a route to Valencia and established Costa Blanca as a region of Spain. Away from the high rises of Benidorm English teachers can have their own summer working in a typical Spanish village near Tarragona. They’ve been holding summer camps here, in a stately house and garden, since 1980.

Along with native English teachers they take on monitors, who should have a high level of English. The Village hold their summer camps in a hotel resort and sports campus, ten minutes from the beach, where an international group of coaches have the opportunity to work in Spain for four weeks in July.

South Korea & China

English speaking foreigners are in demand to staff the numerous camps dotted around Korea and share our language for a month or two. Camps also take place in the winter months. Johnny Ward spent three weeks in January working at an English camp and helpfully provides an FAQ on the experience over on his site. Edarabia has a list of camps taking place over this summer in Korea. For China, try Go-to.co or Smaller Earth.