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

by Karel van Delft

Chess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them. Playing chess is just like you have to make plans, take decisions, be creative, deal with challenges, handle disappointments, interact with others and evaluate your actions. Psychologist and chess teacher Karel van Delft has spent a large part of his life studying the benefits of chess in education. In this guide he provides access to the underlying scientific research and presents the didactical methods of how to effectively apply these findings in practice. 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? And with school authorities? 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, with lots of moves and diagrams, but it points the way to where good technical chess improvement content can be found. Van Delft offers a wealth of practical advice on how to launch and present a chess program and how to apply the most effective didactics in order for kids to build critical life skills through learning chess.

Genres: Chess

272 pages, Paperback

Published April 30, 2021

Reviews

[Helfren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cultural changes, mindset changes and all the jack of changes.

This book just explains how to maximize each talent and each student to the best of their ability. This is what I like about the book. A lot more practicality instead of just tin can talk. Just reallly really life changing book if you are serious to be a chess educator.