Bridge Lessons for Youth
by Jeff Lehman on
May 13th, 2015
New England Youth Bridge, Inc., a tax-exempt charity, is pleased to offer to teachers of youth bridge programs a set of lesson plans with teacher’s manual that are designed for use by school bridge clubs. (Warning: the pdf file for the lesson plans is very long!)
NEYB subscribes to a bridge learning progression of:
- Teaching play before bidding (that is, using mini-bridge)
- Teaching declarer play before defender play
- Teaching notrump play before trump suit play
Although I am the author of the lesson plans and teacher’s manual, the material was based upon several sources that I want to acknowledge and would recommend to both teachers and students of school bridge programs:
- Fred Gitelman’s Learn to Play Bridge software, available through Bridge Base Online.
- Kitty Cooper’s School Bridge Lesson Series Program Teacher Manual.
- Eddie Kantar’s books “Introduction to Declarer’s Play” and “Introduction to Defender’s Play”. www.kantarbridge.com
- Audrey Grant’s ACBL Bridge Series “Bidding in the 21st Century”.
— Jeff Lehman
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This is great Jeff. You did an amazing job here. Thank you for posting this, youth bridge needs our attention. contributions like yours are important…negativity is just destructive.
Glad to hear you are giving back to bridge. Thanks.