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OCILE Program Summary
Philosophy The Off-Campus Integrated Learning Experiences (OCILE) Programs at Old Town, Balboa Park, and Palomar offer outstanding educational, personal awareness, and human interaction opportunities for San Diego City Schools' fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students. OCILE learning experiences contribute to academic and personal interaction skills needed by students-both in school and later as adults. In keeping with this philosophy, the OCILE Programs:
Site Locations and Facilities The Old Town Program, serving fourth-grade students, is located on the corner of Conde Street and Congress in Old Town (the lower playing field of the old Fremont School campus). The Balboa Park Program, serving fifth-grade students, is located on the south end of Roosevelt Middle School campus. Facilities for both Old Town and Balboa Park Programs consist of four to five classrooms, one office unit, a portable rest room, and a lunch area. Facilities for these programs are used primarily for morning and large-group activities, as well as a shelter for students during inclement weather. Instruction for most of the day occurs in the state, county, and city parks adjacent to program locations. The district's Race/Human Relations Outdoor Education Program, serving sixth-grade students, is located in the Palomar Mountain State Park approximately seventy miles from San Diego. The facility has four student dormitories (or cabins), three staff living quarters, one dining hall, two assembly halls with attached craft and nature rooms, one building for conservation tools, a maintenance workshop, and living quarters for the head maintenance worker. As in the other OCILE Programs, most of the instruction occurs in the outdoor living environment of Palomar Mountain. Classrooms are used for some large- and small-group activities and to shelter students during inclement weather. Staffing Both the Old Town and Balboa Park Programs are staffed as follows: program administrator, secretary, nurse, six certificated teachers, guidance assistant, and 16-17 race/human relations education assistants. The Palomar Program is staffed with an administrator, two registered nurses, eight certificated teachers, 16 race/human relations education assistants, a secretary, and teacher(s) from the schools. Through the San Diego County Office of Education, the Palomar Program also has six cafeteria workers and three maintenance employees. Additionally, each of the three programs has more than three hundred site personnel, including classroom teachers and paraprofessionals, participating during the year. OCILE Program staff are intensively trained in park history, park resources, museum subject matter, natural sciences and/or social science curriculum, art, music, group dynamics, discovery learning, race/human relations, and other appropriate skills. The staff represent an ethnically diverse group balanced to the extent possible as to gender, experience, and age. Classroom teachers attending the programs assist with instruction and supervision, conduct daily activities with students, and utilize program experiences to prepare materials for classroom instruction upon return to the site. Curriculum All OCILE Programs are designed to involve well-integrated groups of students assigned to small working units. A modified team-learning approach is utilized in order to minimize problems relating to different achievement levels and to maximize the opportunity to develop friendships. Get-acquainted activities, games, and discussions focusing on race/human relations are integrated into the program of studies. These experiences provide students with the opportunity to develop a better understanding of themselves and others. In summary, all activities in the program are designed to support the district's curricular and instructional focus and to foster sensitivity to others and recognition of thoughtfulness, with a strong focus on team building. Responsibility to self, to the team, and to the environment is emphasized. << Back to OCILE main page. |
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