Concurrent with our summer scholastic camp, T. H. Rogers is planning on
hosting 5 separate workshops for teachers and adult chess club
sponsors. We are currently in the planning stages and would welcome
any thoughts or suggestions. We recognize that we have a number of
different audiences, hence the decision to run 5 separate workshops.
We have parents who already know how to play chess, but are trying to
set up clubs at their children's schools; teachers who want to enrich
their curriculum; sponsors who are trying to figure out how to get more
"education" into the club they are already running, etc....
Let me know if you are interested in attending any of the workshops and
which ones. Or is there a topic we completely missed that you wish we
were offering? Feel free to pass this information on to others in the
scholastic community who may be interested. As to the cost of the
workshops, our goal will be to cover our costs. We are not trying to
do this as a money making venture.
For more information on the scholastic camp or to see periodic updates
on this effort, please see our website at:
www.throgerschess.com
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Martha Jenkinson
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Chess In Education
Teacher In-Service and Adult Sponsor Workshops
June 14 - 18, 2004
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5
Separate Workshops
Concurrent with the Scholastic Camp
Dates: June 14 - 18, 2004
Times: 9am - 4:15 pm
Where: T. H. Rogers School, 1.5 miles west of the
Galleria on San Felipe
What:
· Currently 5 separate workshops are being
planned, one each day. Note that these are our preliminary ideas and
are subject to change based on the suggestions and needs of the
participants. Sign up for each workshop individually per your interest.
1. Learning to play chess or Improving your
own play
2. Teaching chess
3. Incorporating chess into your classroom
curriculum
4. Club management, including starting a club
5. Fun stuff such as:
· Running a tournament
· Human chess games
· G/T and CE credit will be available for
some of the workshops (maybe all).
Cost: We haven’t figured this out
yet.
Instructors: So far we have
- Dr. Alexey Root (short
bio below)
- George John, President of
the Texas Chess Association and Senior Tournament Director for Friday's
Tournament Director session
Note: We are in the planning
stages for all of this. Suggestions & ideas are definitely
welcome! What do you hope to learn?
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Women's International Master Alexey Root FIDE Rated 2043
Alexey is a Women's International Chess Master and was the 1989 U.S.
Women's Chess Champion, 1998 Pan American Open Chess Champion, and had
a peak USCF rating on 2262. She is a Senior Lecturer in Teacher
Education in the School of General Studies, UT Dallas, with a Ph.D. in
Curriculum and Instruction from UCLA (1999). She currently teaches
Chess in Education for the UT TeleCampus: www.telecampus.utsystem.edu.
For several years she also served as Associate Director of the Chess
Program at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a former High
School Teacher.
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