Chess for Educators: How to Organize and Promote a Meaningful Chess Teaching Program

Descripción

A dependable toolkit for teachers and scholastic chess organizers.

Chess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them. Playing chess is

just like life: you have to make plans, take decisions, be creative, deal with challenges, handle

disappointments, interact with others and evaluate your actions.

 

In this guide, psychologist and chess teacher Karel van Delft provides access to the underlying scientific

research and presents the best didactical methods. Van Delft has created a dependable toolkit for

teachers and scholastic chess organizers.

 

What can teachers do to improve their instruction? How (un)important is talent? How do you  support a

special needs group? How do you deal with parents? What are the best selling points of a chess program?

Boys and girls, does it make a difference? How do ‘chess in schools’ programs fare in different countries?

 

This is not a book on chess rules and moves, but it points the way to where good technical chess

improvement content can be found. Van Delft offers a wealth of practical advice on the most effective

didactics in order for kids to build critical life skills through learning chess.

 

Karel van Delft is a Dutch chess teacher and chess organizer. He holds a Master’s degree in Psychology

of the University of Amsterdam and has lectured and published widely on the subject of the benefits of

chess in education.

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