A teaching programme especially devised for club development
To help membership recruitment in your club, English Bridge Education & Development is now running an important teacher training initiative to help all bridge clubs to ‘grow their own’ membership through an integrated teaching programme.
The purpose of this course is to provide basic training for club members who are prepared to offer a teaching programme at their club. This needs to be as part of programme to which the whole club is committed and which is designed to attract new members into bridge and then nurture their development within the world of duplicate play.
The key to a successful club teaching programme lies with evolving a whole year group from classroom to club room in no more than a year. Players should be integrated into the club as early as possible through a programme of teaching, supervised play, “no fear” duplicates and above all by providing an atmosphere of encouragement and welcome.
The success of your club development programme should not be measured based on how effectively the student member has learned Blackwood or transfers in response to 1NT. Performance should be evaluated by looking at how many of the year group eventually graduate to playing regularly at your club duplicate sessions. The responsibility of this falls to the whole club membership. The future of your club may depend on it.
Joining a Course
The cost of this course is currently £106. A list of currently planned courses can be found at the bottom of this page.
If you would like to attend one of these courses, please contact Lisa Miller on 01296 317217 or send her an email
Participants do not need to be members of the English Bridge Union. They should have played duplicate bridge at club level and have a good level of understanding of the game. It is unlikely that the course will be suitable for anyone with an NGS grading below a 7; but no previous experience of teaching is required.
Courses upon Request
Courses are run around the country in response to enquiries. If you wish to attend a course but no course is scheduled within a reasonable distance from your home, please let us know via email to assist us in our forward planning.
In the event that your club (or county association) wishes to send several delegates on a course, it may be possible to make special arrangements or to set up a course to suit your specific requirements. The club/county should be willing to host such an event, and you are advised to talk in the first instance to your County Secretary to help identify other demand in your area. Enquiries for further information may be made to Sue Maxwell at info@ebedcio.org.uk
Concessions for EBU Affiliated Clubs
For all bookings received from, invoiced to, and paid by, an EBU affiliated club, a 20% discount applies. The discount is only offered to clubs that are paying for their teachers to attend. There is no limit to the number from each club who can attend. All other bookings are at full price.
This replaces the previous pricing scheme which expired at the end of August 2016. Through EBED the EBU is investing in producing new educational material, with the aim of helping people to learn how to play bridge more quickly and easily and inspire them to join Clubs. This is an objective that EBU Members have indicated should be of the highest priority to safeguard the future of our game. To help EBED, and the EBU, finance this, the financial support to teacher training in Clubs is being rebalanced, and thus this change has been made.
The course
The course is typically run over two days. Timings can vary from venue to venue - please contact Lisa Miller (01296 317217) for the timings at each venue.
The purpose of the course is to provide basic training for club members who are prepared to offer a teaching programme at the registered club.
Each course member must prepare and deliver a 10-15 minute teaching presentation using the techniques learnt and the Bridge for All materials. So in a way that determines how long day 2 goes on. With 12 people it will take something over 3 hours to get through everyone.
Available courses
Huddersfield BC, Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th October 2016
Aylesbury, Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd February 2017
Please check back here for updates on these courses.
Club Teacher Training Courses Held 2011-2016
Orange = 2016, Red = 2015, Green = 2014, Blue = 2013, Yellow = 2012, Grey = 2011, White = multiple years
Courses already held at:
Richmond Surrey (Sept 2010), Farnham Surrey (Nov 2010), Stowmarket Suffolk (Jan 2011), Oxford (Feb 2011), Brierfield Lancs (April 2011), Taunton (April 2011), Nottingham (April/May 2011), Patcham (May 2011), Torquay (June 2011), Edgware (June 2011), Wetherby (July 2011), Chichester (Oct 2011), Aylesbury (May 2012), Edgware (June 2012), West Midlands (Aug 2012), Cumbria (Aug 2012), Harrow (July 2013), Leeds (July 2013), Liverpool (July 2013), Salisbury (August 2013), St Albans (September 2013), Bradford (October 2013), Hove (November 2013), Basingstoke (March 2014), Falmouth (June 2014), East Midlands (July 2014), Trowbridge (July 2014), Edgware (Sept 2014), Lymington (Jan 2015), Bristol (June 2015), Wearside (June 2015), Radlett (August 2015), Aylesbury (October 2015), Manchester (October 2015), Norwich (October 2015), Leicester (November 2015), Aylesbury (April 2016), Edgware (June 2016), South Bucks (July 2016), Aylesbury (August 2016), Welwyn Garden City (October 2016)
Updated: 25th October 2016