Chess as part of the Spanish Curriculum

[Bindi Cheng]

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2vnyqz/chess_to_be_taught_in_spanish_schools_spains/

I find the discussion among members to be much more instructive and interesting than the article itself

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Chess as part of the Spanish Curriculum

There was already a thread about it - "Spain". Though this one is more meaningful.

Has anybody seen the material they (Armenians etc) use in schools? Thoughts? Maybe it is available online?

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Re: Chess as part of the Spanish Curriculum

Has anybody seen the material they (Armenians etc) use in schools? Thoughts? Maybe it is available online?

A recent Armenian conference had a fair number of articles available...

Articles

Binita Shah - Founder & CEO, IWICA Chess School
Future of Chess in Schools in the ASEAN Economic Community

Darko Polimac - Junior Officer, Academy Instructor, Irish Chess Union
Project - Chess School Polimac Kilkenny

Erzsebet Sarlos - Headmistress, Pipacsvirag Hungarian-English Bilingual Primary School

"Mattika" chess and logic complex education program

Igor Sukhin - Senior Scientific Associate, Ph.D. in Pedagogics, Russian Academy of Education
Development of the ability to act in mind - fundamental problem of the educational system
Development of the ability to act in mind - fundamental problem of the educational system - PPT

Ion Gîrneț - General Manager, the National Chess Academy of Moldova
Chess Unites
Chess Unites - PPT

Igor Glek - President of the East Moscow Chess Federation
Chess in Schools: Development of additional components of chess education - an important motivational factor for children and parents encouraging to study chess

Janos Pallagi - Program Director, i-Mobil Solutions Ltd. - LearningChess.net division
Learningchess.net free for schools program
Learningchess.net free for schools program

Jerry Nash - National Chess Education Consultant, Chess 2 Learn
Creating and structuring chess professional development for teachers in the United States

Joaquin Fernandez Amigo - Coordinator ajEdu (Chess and Education), Autonomous University of Barcelona
Teaching math using chess as a resource in the classroom

Johanna Valentin - CEO and Founder, Utsiktstornet / The Vantage Tower

Using chess to increase social capital and decrease segregation

Jose Francisco Suarez Roa - President of the committee of coaches and teachers, Spanish Chess Federation

Chess as a tool of socialization. The case of Menorca

Marine Zschischang

The results of Trier University research center and the methods used in teaching chess in Germany

Michal Luch - Coordinator - "Education - Chess in Schools", Polish Chess Federation

Implementation, development and evaluation of the project ''Education through chess in school'' in Poland

Mukalazi John Vianney - Chairman Chess in Schools, Uganda Chess Federation

Chess in Uganda building on a global perspective

Stanislav Vlček - Manager of the Chess in Schools Slovakia project, Slovak Chess Federation / Chess in Schools Comission

Bringing chess into 250 schools in Slovakia

Stefan Bergsson - Manager, Reykjavik Chess Academy

Integration of chess into Reykjavik's schools

Victor Kondratyev - Associate professor, Moscow City Teacher Training University

Chess as a social phenomenon

Vlad Ungureanu - President of Commission Chess in School, Romania Chess Federation

Chess in School 2014-2018 - PPT

Yuri Agafonov - FIDE Trainer, Latvian Chess Federation
Children Chess Camp

Сергей Гайнутдинов - руководитель шахматно-шашечной школы "Веселый Горизонталик",

Развитие шахматного образования в г. Миасс, Челябинской области

Евгений Быков - доктор медицинских наук, профессор, зав. кафедрой, Уральский государственный университет физической культуры, каф. спортивной медицины и физической реабилитации

"Медико-биологическое обеспечение подготовки юных шахматистов и учащихся-участников программы шахматного всеобуча"

link for the articles

Also, some Turkish teaching materials (with dutiful nods to Atatürk, etc.) was available on the FIDE site. It should still be there. If your Turkish is good, there is a larger collection than the English language translation(s).

See here: teaching materials from Turkey, some in English, etc.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Re: Chess as part of the Spanish Curriculum

Supplemental: the page with the links for the articles also has, just there at the bottom, some logos for all sorts of Armenian chess organizations. The Armenian logos all have links too.

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Chess as part of the Spanish Curriculum

Personally, I think they should drop French from the curriculum in Ontario and replace it with Chess. My opinion.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

But that's just ... my opinion.

Personally, I think they should drop French from the curriculum in Ontario and replace it with Chess. My opinion.

hmm. Wouldn't children in Ontario wonder where expressions like "j'adoube" and "en passant" came from?

This doesn't have anything to do with another Leafs loss last night - this time at the hands of the dreaded Habs?

[Gary Ruben]

Re: But that's just ... my opinion.

hmm. Wouldn't children in Ontario wonder where expressions like "j'adoube" and "en passant" came from?

This doesn't have anything to do with another Leafs loss last night - this time at the hands of the dreaded Habs?

I've mentioned a couple of times that when a hockey or baseball team loses three in a row I bet them to lose until they win. The Leafs have now lost 13 road games in a row, or something silly like that. Why would last nights loss surprise me?

I think there will be some big changes in the 21st century. Some good, some not.

[Jack Maguire]

Re: But that's just ... my opinion.

Stephen Moss, writing in 'The Guardian', sounds a more discordant note ):

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/17/chess-wonderful-game-peculiar-life-spain-schools

[Jack Maguire]

Re: But that's just ... my opinion.

Israel may apparently emulate the Armenian and Spanish examples (:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/318041#.VONQ9E33-iw

[Gary Ruben]

Re: But that's just ... my opinion.

There is an election going on there as far as I recall.

I'm currently playing an Israeli on my Ipad Social Chess app. Maybe I'll ask him if he can write English. Otherwise it will just be the moves and no conversation.