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THURSDAY AFTER-SCHOOL ADVANCED VIRTUAL CHESS CLUB FOR KIDS
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Todd D Andrews
629-254-4747 (p)
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Thursday After-School Advanced Virtual Chess Club for Kids
Coach Todd will lead a 1-hour synchronized ZOOM club each Thursday from 4:00 PM until 5:00 PM CST for advanced chess students. Limit 16 students in each group. The ZOOM will begin at 3:55 PM to give everyone 5-minutes to log on.
Start Date: Thursday, January 14th, 2021 and ending Tuesday, April 29th, 2021 (No class during Spring Break)
Procedures:
- Each Nashville Chess Center (NCC) Program will provide 1-hour of synchronized chess club with qualified and trained NCC Instructors each week
- Each synchronized class will begin with roll call, a 10-15-minute classroom style lesson on Zoom, utilizing an analysis board on chess.com or chesskid.com
- Each synchronized class will consist of 45-50 minutes of practice or play time amongst the club members as the coach observed each online – The coach may also play against students and provide more individualized attention during this period
- Each synchronized lesson will be posted for students
- Each student registered for the NCC program shall receive a ChessKid.com Gold Membership ($49 per year) as part of the registration fees at no extra cost
- ChessKid.com has very well-established protective measures to keep chess kids online safe
- A ChessKid group will be created for each group
- ChessKid also has a complete curriculum of asynchronous learning that each scholar can utilize and that the coach of each respective program will use to give online assignments
- Programs are child appropriate and highly interactive
Benefits:
- Chess is a powerful educational tool that has shown to accelerate the cognitive development of scholars in math, science and reading
- Chess is a power “distractor” – even in a virtual setting, chess will do a lot to help Middle-Tennessee students’ minds not constantly worry about this difficult situation they are learning to adapt to
- Chess will create a sense of community and identity for our students missing their friends and their other sports teams
- In a time where parents are having to be told about “what can we no longer offer students;” Chess is an additive – something we can fully provide online
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