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Chess Coach Training
Courses
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CSC TRAINING
COURSE
in BRISTOL, BS11
Wednesday
14th March
2012
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Do you love playing
chess and want to help others improve their game? Or do
you know little about the game but want to find a new
career or further your PSD? Then learn how to teach
chess!
Courses are run by
CSC, a registered charity that work in seventy schools
around the UK and were featured recently on
BBC Breakfast.
The courses are
aimed at teachers, teaching assistants, parents or
anyone planning on becoming a professional chess trainer
or who wants to learn how to play and teach the game.
Training course:
We are pleased to announce a new course for
trainers in:
Bristol on Wednesday
14th March 2012 (Venue:
Yew Room, the Bristol Conference Centre, The
Wylands, Lower High Street, Shirehampton,
Bristol, BS11). The training is from
10.30am to 4.30pm.
The course will consist of the following
modules:
* Benefits of chess
* A brief history of chess & chess champions
* Overview of Junior chess in the UK
* Primary school CSC chess syllabus - an
overview
* Cross-curricular links
* Techniques for teaching chess
* Chess sub-games and variants
* Running a school chess club
* Resources and materials
* Pieces, moves, captures, checks and
checkmates – practical
Click
here if you are
interested in attending this course.
Chess Teacher Training Course
Manchester
22 Sept 11 -
There was a big turnout for the
course for school teachers and teaching
assistants at Hyde in Manchester on 22
September given by John Foley, the CSC
course director. David Hardy, the local CSC
chess tutor organised the event and welcomed
over twenty participants. We spent an
intensive day learning how chess can be made
exciting for primary school children.
The course started by confirming the
benefits of chess for developing thinking
skills such as concentration and analysis.
Links to the school curriculum were
identified. The 15% improvement in academic
performance associated with playing chess in
schools was noted. The structured course
then proceeded at a fast pace with an
emphasis on practical classroom exercises.
The basic principles of teaching chess were
communicated in a lively way using a chess
demonstration board, a flipchart and a
projector.
The attendees tried out instructional
chess variants such as mini-games which
gradually lead children up to the orthodox
form of chess and beyond. They learned the
distinction between material and spatial
concepts in child development psychology.
They explored the use of coloured blocks to
illustrate which squares are attacked and
also to depict the fascinating geometrical
contours generated by individual pieces.
Much fun was had acting out fundamental
concepts such as checkmate – an exercise
always popular with children. The CSC
primary school curriculum was explained. The
social aspects of chess were emphasised with
sessions on the touch move rule and chess
etiquette. By the end of the course, some
participants were avidly playing exchange
chess which is popular in junior chess.
Course handouts included the curriculum and
the teacher’s guide.
The participating schools included: St.
George's CE Primary School, Holden Clough
Primary School, St. Francis Xavier's
College, St. George's CE Primary School,
Millbrook School, Greenside Primary School,
Holy Trinity CE Dobcross, Waterloo Primary
School, Hey with Zion Primary, Stalyhill
Junior School and St Peters RC HS.
We hope more schools can attend next time
for this well-received course.
Click to see
details of other completed courses
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