Bridge Lessons for Youth

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