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How to Start a High School Chess Course?
Written by Arnie Nermo 04 April 2009
As a teacher of Gifted and Special Education and an avid chess player, I
have been interested in chess as it relates to education for well over 20
years. It all started at William Beagle, a small high-school in Surrey,
BC. The way I ran my chess club as a teacher was to run it hard, every
single lunch hour...no staff room breaks for me, but plenty of fun,
memories and CHESS. Through the years, the numbers would fluctuate between
4 to 30 members. It was during the times that I had 30+ students, I would
say to myself, "Why the ‘heck’ aren't I teaching this as a real course?!"
The first hurdle was always getting past the principals, who quite frankly
just didn’t care. The real issue for them is that a teacher costs money
and so it’s more important to have them covering regular classes. In an
effort to bolster my argument that chess is not a frill, I researched
several leads and found that in Canada, chess has been taught in the
school curriculum in various forms but usually piggy-backed into the Math
curriculum or left for volunteers to bring it into the classroom for short
periods of time. My dream was a chess course that could stand by itself
and be taught on an equal footing with Science, Math or Socials Studies.
Pursuing this endeavour, I was once invited to chess legend, Nathan
Divinsky’s home near UBC. He gave me a video, some kindly advice and later
sent me some of the fascinating research that showed the latest
educational benefits of chess. Although I was undaunted and enthusiastic,
the dream that I had nurtured just didn’t look like it would succeed.
About seven years ago, in a new school, Fleetwood Park, I discovered that
all locally developed courses had to follow new Provincial (Board Approved
and Authorized) BAA guidelines and templates. Once more, my chess club was
packed, so I started to climb that Everest again. First, convince the
principal, next, write up a course following the provincial BAA
guidelines, next, meet with the School Trustees, and then get it past the
School Board. Then, get it past the Ministry of Education. Finally, get
enough students to take the course as a selection for the following school
year.
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I worked very, very hard and had almost
succeeded about three years ago when I unexpectedly got a ‘plum job’
offered in a new school district. I felt like Mallory turning back. But
then I said to myself, 'Why not offer all the groundwork to other teachers
across BC and Canada?'. After putting out the proposed BAA chess course I
had developed, through the BC Teacher's Magazine, Luke Campbell of School
District #23 Okanagan, took up the challenge and was finally able to make
it to the top by getting the final approval.
What is the significance? Now that chess is listed as a legitimate BAA
course in BC (course number YLRA-12F) any teacher can apply to teach it in
their school district. It will still take some effort on their part but
the precedent is set and so it will be a much easier road. Although the
course is the first of its kind in Canada that I know of, it is my hope
that teachers in other districts and provinces country-wide may use Luke
Campbell’s and my experiences to use the course as a template for the
introduction and teaching of chess into their high-school curriculum too.
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