echecs06 wrote:
Btw, the thread was about chess as a school subject, not teachers. I guess some posters flunked ...reading!
Please stay on topic everyone! PLEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!
Chess as a school subject
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Jun 6, 2011
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#164
LordNazgul wrote:
trysts wrote:
LordNazgul wrote:
Listen to Pink Floyd now, trysts.
Yuk!
I thought that it would please you, seeing how the teachers are cruel and useless.
No, it's just that classic rock stuff. I probably would have liked it back then, but I don't really like hearing that stuff. They play it at work, in bars, supermarkets, etc. Just had my fill of it
Jun 6, 2011
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#167
trysts wrote:
clms_chess wrote:
Well... there are over 120,000 schools nation wide (elementary, middle and high school) with over.... 7 million teachers. I'm not sure if your sample is big enough to afford you the judgement that "teachers generally suck". Those are just the numbers and thats just my opinion based on the numbers. Maybe they generally sucked where you were. There some whole districts that are very bad... state reading and math scores prove that out.
Actually, my "sample" is regrettably large enough for my judgement on the matter. If you somehow believed that my sample should be larger than my experience, I am not surprised. You did confess to being a teacher, so you have probably been around "them" enough to have the symptoms of cloudy thinking. But, on a positive note regarding the value of teachers........well.......okay, I thought of one! :
One time, a teacher tipped well! I can't remember the year, but it did happen! When I tell other servers this story, they insist I must have been dreaming!
Man you are sooo persuasive. Sheesh...I know any minute now, you will convince me to buy insurance for a tractor on some farm in Wisconsin... and I don't even own a tractor!
But we will have to agree... to disagree. But it was fun. 
TheGrobe wrote:
I actually think the majority of the population is capable of understanding things far more complex and nuanced than most would likely give them credit for.
The problem is that many students don't care to learn, and concern themselves (or are distracted by) other things like the social and political aspects of being a part of the student body, home issues, modern entertainment (video games and television primarily) etc.
The kids you mention who are first starting school are generally quite filled with wonder, actually, but something has a tendency to sap them of that and replace it with complacency and apathy as they get older. Perhaps some of the blame is on the curriculum and approach taken in class, but I believe there are many other outside factors at play as well.
Teachers have a very tough row to hoe.
That happens that young!?! I had to get into my thirties before I realized that "all is vanity."
I always was a slow learner...
Jun 7, 2011
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#170
Should Chess Be Mandatory in
Schools?
MAYBE THEY KNOW BETTER THAN THE USA
Let's face it: Chess is always associated with smart kids (and smart people).
So maybe Armenia is on to something with its plan to make chess classes mandatory for schoolchildrenas young as 6.
Armenia plans to invest nearly $1.5 million into teaching chess to primary school kids, The National Post reports, claiming it will "foster schoolchildren’sintellectual development."
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Chess increases the brain's analytical thinking and concentration ability, and it is especially beneficial to children. Chess helps teach children decision making and increases their mental skills. Children who regularly play chess are shown to have higher reading and mathematics test scores. This is explained by D. Calvin F. Deүermond, the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction at the North Tonawanda City School District, "Chess develops intellectual, aesthetic, sporting, decision making, concentration, and perseverance skills…Not only is it mentally challenging, [the game] attracts not only gifted pupils but also students at all levels of learning. Many students who have been experiencing problems, particularly in mathematics and reading, sometimes demonstrate remarkable progress after learning chess." Research has also shown that children with Attention Deficit Disorder are often help by regularly playing chess.
Read more: http://www.articlesbase.com/card-games-articles/how-playing-chess-makes-you-smarter-4565338.html#ixzz1Obrs3y6v
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"Dr. Stefurak, a cognitive neuropsychologist, stated that '.chess instruction informs the mind and the emotions in such a way as to structure an emergent mental circuit where motivation and ability multiply to produce achievement in chess and school and life.' " "Robert C. Ferguson, PhD.:
"Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems." Benjamin Franklin
I think that chess, like all tools used to aid in building a diverse curriculum, should be used in the best interest of a student's development. Gone are the days of instruction that is universal accross the board for every student. Chess should be used with students who will directly be resulted by its offerings, not as a national standard for measurement or prestige.
Jun 15, 2011
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#172
he research found that there were positive benefits to comprehension and numeracy skills, and children who played chess developed self-regulated learning and problem solving skills through such study and play. Chess helped teach children how to learn. It created a desire to learn and the ‘will to use knowledge’.http://kipmcgrathtutorsscotland.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/educational-benefits-of-chess/
clms_chess wrote:
trysts wrote:
clms_chess wrote:
I love teachers.... because I am one. I also know what it takes to be a good one. And trysts.... you are getting closer.... you used a qualifier..... "generally". Although I strongly disagree with that statement (I think they are generally awesome)... at least you have realized, it seems, that your earlier statements were all encompassing blanket statements... "teachers suck" in some of your posts in this thread.
"Generally..." implies that you at least believe that there are some teachers that you consider.... good...and don't "suck". Yesss?
The mathematical possibility exists, though I have no experiential evidence to support this "concept".
And of course... your galactic store house of experiential evidence includes.... how many classrooms visited?... out of how many school districts/counties checked out?
+1
As the OP, I hereby declare that I really don't give a darn.