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Teaching K-educators to teach chess Dr. Tanja Pflug Kinderschach in Deutschland e.V. London Chess Conference 6th December 2015
Teaching K-educators to teach chess
Dr. Tanja PflugKinderschach in Deutschland e.V.
London Chess Conference6th December 2015
What we do
● Association on a voluntary basis„Kinderschach in Deutschland“
● Teach K-educators and after-school care assistants to teach children at the age of4-6, 6-9
Challenges
● Get in touch
● Convince K-educators
● Teach K-educators and provide material
● (Fundraising)
Challenges
● Get in touch and convince
– Personal contact by parents, grand parents– Convince k-educators by teaching– Viral marketing (k-educators convince
k-educators)
Challenges
● Differences between K-educators and teachers– Focused on care and nurture vs. education and
measurable results– Ask for didactic road maps
● Differences between preschoolers and pupils– No / poor skills in reading, writing, understanding
alphabets and numbers– „colored-pencil-method“
Challenges● Teach K-educators
– Develop and provide didactic material for educators and children
Didactic road map
●Lesson's goal
Required material
How to proceed:Repetition
New contentPractices
Play and fun: connections to
real life
Colored pencil method
Find all bishops, knights, pawns ...
From point to point
Learning by doing
Achievements
● 2013-2015: 150 k-educators trained
● 2015: funding of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Lower State of Saxony Anhalt – teaching staff of 100 facilities
● Cooperation with German Youth Chess Organisation
● Requests of further 160 k-educators and after-school assistants to be trained in 2016
Thank you for your attention!
● Contact details:
Dr. Tanja [email protected]
● Kinderschach in Deutschland e.V.
www.kinderschach-in-deutschland.de
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]
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