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Philip Math Chess Academy is looking for qualified, dedicated and enthusiastic chess teachers for our beginner, intermediate and advanced classes. 1700+ CFC rating preferred, previous teaching experience is an asset. For detailed information, check www.philipmathchess.com/en or contact
Philip Peng
Philip Math Chess Academy
Philipmathchess @yahoo.ca
We used the word "qualified" in the generic sense. Here it means "having the qualities, accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/qualified).
Qualified-how about COMMUNICATION of information to students. And how about CONTROL- in controlling the class from utter chaos.In 13 years teaching professionally at Chess & Math Toronto i see these 2 traits lacking BIG time.... JJ Henry,Senior Instructor Chess & Math Association....
Qualified-how about COMMUNICATION of information to students. And how about CONTROL- in controlling the class from utter chaos.In 13 years teaching professionally at Chess & Math Toronto i see these 2 traits lacking BIG time.... JJ Henry,Senior Instructor Chess & Math Association....
Can you elaborate just where you see these traits missing?
It does not seem clear from your post...
Seems pretty straight forward to me -look for Communication skills and a Teacher who can Control a class besides of course their skill/knowledge of the game. The first two are missing a lot....
There is an interesting paragraph from the The Chess Instructor 2009 book:
"In 1993 Mike Basman started teaching other people to teach chess. How did he recruit those people, did he put an ad in the papers? 'Ads didn't work. I sort of bumped into them. I began to look for people who were friendly and who were able to related to other people. One of them was a lady who was serving customers in a grocery store. She was always very kindly talking to everybody, so I thought: that's a good chess teacher. She couldn't play, so I taught her. Now she still teaches chess for me and her classes are very popular. ... I didn't care whether they were good at chess, I wanted them to have the right personality."
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BTW, reading the chapter "Mike Basman: The Chess Teacher Who Puts 70,000 Kids to Play, Every Year", you would make parallels with guess who :D
Good point made. A friendly personality is a must for success.A Coach/Teacher in chess or any number of sporting activities must have respect,skills,good communication techniques and certainly control over his students/athletes to ensure success.At these under 1500 chess levels these are paramount perhaps more important than a Master/GM teaching these levels.
Seems pretty straight forward to me -look for Communication skills and a Teacher who can Control a class besides of course their skill/knowledge of the game. The first two are missing a lot....
I see now... I had understood your post to mean you found those traits lacking at either C&M or the Philip Math Chess Academy (neither scenario made much sense to me, therefore my question). I see now you meant that you often see those 2 traits missing in *candidates* you have encountered over the years...
There is an interesting paragraph from the The Chess Instructor 2009 book:
"In 1993 Mike Basman started teaching other people to teach chess. How did he recruit those people, did he put an ad in the papers? 'Ads didn't work. I sort of bumped into them. I began to look for people who were friendly and who were able to related to other people. One of them was a lady who was serving customers in a grocery store. She was always very kindly talking to everybody, so I thought: that's a good chess teacher. She couldn't play, so I taught her. Now she still teaches chess for me and her classes are very popular. ... I didn't care whether they were good at chess, I wanted them to have the right personality."
Here is another quote from that book that is even more important.
"If you want chess to become mainstream both as a game and as a subject to teach, it is essential to make your way into a school regular curriculum, or at least its regular hours. Teaching chess as a business with employees who can only have one or two classes after school each day is not the way to go."
- Jan van de Mortel
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