Instructor: Kim Dewitt

Weeks: Special Week 6 (Tuesday 13 - Saturday July 17)

Come Enjoy the Outdoors in this Beginners Backpacking Course!

Kim DeWit has been teaching for about ten years. Her teaching career was initiated during her two years with the Peace Corps in Central America where she worked with kids and teachers in Environmental Education. Upon her return she secured a position teaching Earth Science in Salinas, California where she taught curriculum content in both English and Spanish, and coached the High School Swim Team.

Kim holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies with a Geology minor from Sonoma State University in California. She went on to earn her secondary teaching credential from Chapman University, Ca., and is currently working on her Masters in Education at Boise State University.

Senora Kim is a qualified and entertaining player in the brilliant jigsaw of faculty here at ArtsWest. Her past endeavors include traveling as a tour guide through Canada, Alaska, and the states, volunteering with the Peace Corps, educating youngsters in a marine lab at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, leading environmental kayaking excursions for tourists and school groups, canoeing and climbing with outward bound students, volunteering with the Southern Idaho Region Nordic Ski Patrol, teaching ESL to native-Spanish speakers, and teaching Spanish as a foreign language to people of all ages.

She likes to write in both languages and speak Spanish whenever possible, and she enjoys being outdoors during her free time, especially in winter snow!

Instructor: Kim Loder

Weeks: 5 & 10

The course will foster creative writing by concentrating on creating unique short stories and poetry.

Instructor: Kim Loder

Weeks: 2 & 8

• 5 Paragraph Essay – We will be mastering the five paragraph essay.  This essay is most often the one that students will write in their college applications, SAT and ACT tests, and well as being the most critical to their success in all academic areas.
• Brainstorming
• Planning
• Rough draft
• Final draft revised to “perfection”

Instructor: Kim Loder

Weeks: 3 & 9

This camp will focus on study skills to promote your students success.

• Organization
• Note taking
• Reading text books
• Surveying
• Test taking

Mrs. Loder's information will be added shortly.

My Summer Programs Schedule:

Week 2 - Writing & Essay Camp
Week 3 - Study Skills
Week 5 - Creative Writing
Week 6 and 7 - Open Tutoring ( private or group)
Week 8 - Writing & Essay Camp
Week 9 - Study Skills
Week 10 Creative Writing