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Stress Free Weekly Chess Club: Play and Develop Executive Functioning (10-14)
Class Experience
Chess naturally encourages the development of the three main executive functioning skills: planning ahead, impulse inhibition, and flexible thinking. Students practice these skills as they develop a plan, consider their options, and adapt to their opponent's plans. This class focuses on the propagation of those skills through a natural learning environment while having fun playing games. In this learner-driven class, we will meet each week to casually play chess and develop our conversation...
- Students will develop an awareness of executive functioning skills and strategies for using them during chess or other activities. Students will develop an appreciation of chess. Students will naturally practice social skills in a supported setting.
I've been playing chess for twenty years and using chess as a teaching strategy for two. I also have been working with middle school students on executive functioing strategies as a peer mentor for other autistic students for over a decade.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Teacher expertise and credentials
Malikai Bass is a twice exceptional (profoundly gifted/ autistic adhder with dyspraxia/dysgrpahia) life-long learner who has been teaching twice-exceptional students virtually for the past four years working with over a thousand students in...
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Group Class
$14
weekly1x per week
45 min
Completed by 143 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 10-14
4-8 learners per class
Financial Assistance
Tutoring
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