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imsighked2

Hi everyone:

I have been asked to help sponsor a brand new chess program for incarcerated juveniles, as an after-school program. I had some ideas of what to offer (rules of chess; how the pieces move; chess notation, basic checkmates, knight forks, pins, skewers, overloaded pieces, deflection, mating attacks, the back rank, stalemate, pawn promotion, tactics, basic opening principles, controlling the center, castling, piece development, pawns [doubled, backward, isolated], en passant, simple endgames and famous master games), but was interested in any suggestions you may have to offer.

I figured I'd probably use a lot of the beginner material here in lessons and have a lot of resource books. I'm sure it would be better if they had someone with a higher rating to instruct them, but my  state employer isn't going to hire a professional chess teacher. I've been teaching youth on an informal basis for awhile now, and even beginners can learn the basics from a non-expert. It will be nice to have the facility-wide program I have requested for a number of years, as multiple youth have requested we start such a program.

Thanks,

Marsha

Andrea

Thats a challenge, but I`m sure you will make it happy.png

I would start with Endgames: mate with a queen, mate with a rook, 2 bishops.......king versus king and pawn. So they get a feeling for the pieces happy.png 

GOOD LUCK AND FUN!

imsighked2

Thanks. I do stress the endgame. I like to teach kids king and pawn versus king.

chawk57charle

What State?

imsighked2

New Mexico.

mgx9600
imsighked2 wrote:

Thanks. I do stress the endgame. I like to teach kids king and pawn versus king.

 

Check out Majestic Chess (a PC game) for ideas if you can.

I'd second the end game suggestion.  Instead of king-pawn, maybe start with king-2 rooks, king-queen, king-rook.  These end games happen a lot more often than king pawn when I was leading an after-school chess program. (And they are easier to teach too.)

 

imsighked2

Thanks for the suggestions. We're getting started tomorrow. I teach all the basic endgames except two bishop and bishop and knight checkmates, as they come up so rarely that I don't want to focus on it for beginners.

joseperlas

imsighked2 escribió:

New Mexico.

,puedes mandarmelo en español??

joseperlas

imsighked2 escribió:

New Mexico.

,puedes mandarmelo en español??

joseperlas

imsighked2 escribió:

New Mexico.

,puedes mandarmelo en español??

joseperlas

imsighked2 escribió:

New Mexico.

,puedes mandarmelo en español??

chatxs

Marsha….I will soon be doing the same in Texas and would really appreciate talking with you about your experiences and suggestions….It would seem like there would/should be a group of us, who are doing this, and sharing ideas about this particular juvenile setting/population!  I’m new to chess.com and unsure of easiest way to talk with you?  Or how to dm my contact info to you? I’m a retired reacher of 22 years in elementary and middle schools…I hope this post reaches you….Thanks, Joe