Albert Lea Chess Club

Resources

• Training Program for Teachers (pdf) — 1.75 MB — This is a helpful Susan Polgar Foundation training manual for teachers. You may find a few ideas in here that will help you to teach kids chess.

• Chess in Education Research Summary (pdf) — 74 KB — This is an article put out by the executive director of the American Chess School, Dr. Robert Ferguson, Jr. Using well researched data, Ferguson makes this conclusion: “Chess has been proven to enhance creativity, concentration, critical thinking skills, memory, academic achievement, problem solving, cultural enrichment, intellectual maturity, self-esteem, standardized test scores, and a score of other qualities that every administrator, school board director, parent and teacher desires.”

• Current Albert Lea Community Education Catalog (pdf) — 1.14 MB — Find exciting new things to learn in this catalog of Albert Lea Community Education classes, events and groups.