The ACBL has the most current manual for teaching kids on their site plus much information and supporting material including lesson plans for younger children at their teachers lounge. This site has some materials to support that effort.
The ACBL Education foundation sponsors bridge classes in the schools. Click here for more information from them.
Bridge Teaching MaterialsMy Bridge Lecture Handouts
For Bridge Teachers
MiniBridge MaterialsSchools Program Materials |
For Bridge PlayersHands to BidEither 120 or 64 hands to bid in two files, one for each of North and South in RTF format (suitable for printing or any word processor). The original BHG output from Borel is included. Zip files. Software for BridgeAlso see the suit symbol wordpress add-on for sale in the sidebar on the right. |
My gosh, this is indeed a neat thing to do–provide lessons for young children, a guide for parents or grandparents to teach their kids bridge.
I blogged about just this topic last spring when someone in the audience I spoke to about my book about sociable bridge, told how her mother taught all the kids bridge before the got into school, and later taught her grandchildren.
I had no idea there were teaching materials available for parents.
Did you really teach Bill how to play bridge ? Nice job !
Greetings
Thanks Lurpo for the praise on my bridge teaching prowess, however it was purely a fine work of fiction. The author did ask my permission to use me in his charming article at Bridge Winners
What I find. I am so glad I found you. I looked at a couple of other sites and they just didn’t inspire me to learn how and maybe teach bridge. My doctor has recommended that I take it up to help with my depression and other reasons. So here I go. Thank you so much
Thank you Sharon, bridge is a wonderful game that is endlessly interesting and never completely mastered. great for the brain! Good luck with your learming
I’m trying to find the posters. I saw the posters under ‘For Bridge Teachers’ and the fine print underneath said ‘available in Downloads.’ But, when I went to the Downloads tab I was unable to find the posters. We have recently begun teaching Middle School bridge and I was hoping to take the posters as visual aids. But I can’t figure a way to find/print the posters. We are using your material http://web2.acbl.org/documentlibrary/teachers/SBLSTeacherManual.pdf
Thanks so much for making your material available. Invaluable.
Bob
Hi Bob – somehow the new version of wordpress has lost my downloads module. While I work to restore it, this old URL (found via googling) still works:
http://www.kittycooper.com/Schools/BridgePoster.html
Where might I find the answers to the exercises, particularly slam bidding? Many thanks
Bev
Love to get free teaching materials for my class of seniors. Thank you.
Found the below on your Downloads page. Any chance that these downloads are available somewhere?
For Bridge Players
Hands to Bid
Either 120 or 64 hands to bid in two files, one for each of North and South in RTF format (suitable for printing or any word processor). The original BHG output from Borel is included. Zip files.
No downloads found.
Thanks for pointing out that those hands to bid are no longer there. I just upoaded some. You may need to hold the control key and click refresh at the same time to see them on this page
All my materials are here except for the manual to teach children which is at the ACBL and can be downloaded for free from them. Go to my for teachers page. The same technique, playing hands and using minibridge before teaching bidding works well for seniors too.