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http://www.federscacchi.it/str_reg.php?tipo=6 Interview Gela extrapolates to a teacher of the answer to this question: What are the benefits
school for students?
In 2005, for unavoidable reasons I left the branch at my school to move to the center. On that occasion, I have been entrusted to two third classes, of which a particularly "difficult". In that class, there was a bustle of teachers and children is normal, they were very resentful.
premise, and not by chance that my school is located in a neighborhood called "risk area" for which, some children had moved because, in this climate, the expectations were flawed, but the most tenacious, however, had resisted . They were children, for more, not used to enforce the rules, lazy, undisciplined and absenteeism. I am a teacher who prefers to pass the rules or concepts in a pleasant, even through the game, but that year, and the next two, until the completion of fifth grade, have been difficult years of intense difficulty that I have made strain, but also the richest of rewards.
Among the many children "problematic" in that class I remember in particular one, the
big, repeating, with a delicate family situation, often absent at school because he helped his uncle to sell detergents on the truck, with no desire to study or to behave according to the rules. I was impressed, This baby, beauty: blue eyes, blond hair and clear complexion, seemed nearly so, however, already had made me: so it was not at all and, moreover, was very early in the growth and interest is no longer a child ! The project
chess, remember, it was very well accepted by all the children who seemed
dry sponges and willing to learn. Very bad, however, was accepted by the majority of families
, convinced that in that class we were missing just that: the teacher who made them play!
Returning to our child, who was not the only one in that class to undergo the
beneficial influence of chess, however, was the first to learn the game, to respect the rules and enforce them
. Even when they misbehave with their classmates and / or the teacher,
somehow autopuniva ... Sometimes, even excessively. I could tell many other stories concerning this child, who was not the only area of \u200b\u200bconcern in that class difficult and turbulent. But in short, our hero that year won the championship and the school was moved to the podium ... and has moved all who knew him, children, parents, teachers and deans. One day the principal came into class to hear your impressions of this "particular sample, now famous for the better. Him, turning red, she replied shyly to questions, but in a timely manner, interested and excited, and when the head is gone, he said, "Teacher Carmelita, only you could give me such satisfaction." I, too, that day, I was moved.
I promised my students that those in class V would have brought them to play in a real tournament. And since every promise is a debt, the opportunity presented itself with the interprovincial championship Gela-Agrigento. All are distinguished by commitment, education and skill. Sicily looked great in the paper the words: UD 10 and UD samples provincial 12. Ten have qualified to the Regional Championship and, last but not least, six were classified at the national championships: seven days in Merano, thanks to the patronage of Municipality of Gela who believed in us. Since our chess players, showed up at school with mega cups, not only were "attention" with different eyes, teachers, children and parents, but, magically, became as if by magic, and good scholars. The success is an opportunity that fuels a realistic self-esteem and motivation to learn.
If today, after two years, from elementary school, just those children when they can come to see me for help (train the chicks to play chess), not just the "Project Chess" can be considered a success but, without having planned it, you're actually carrying on, "the project continues," which is programmed so often in black and white, but you flaunt just pretty words. What is a test method without the possibility of a confrontation?
