Core Programs AND CURRICULA
At Chess Institute of Canada (CIC), we provide two core programs:
- In-class "Chessworks" and "Skills & Habits" programs
- Extra-curricular chess clubs
New CIC Curriculum
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, commencing in March 2020 CIC began converting its in-person programs to online equivalents, and a few months later, it also launched a new initiative to replace the licenced curriculum we had been using with something more adaptable, flexible and reusable in an online teaching environment.
Our internally developed Chess to Life™ integrated chess and life skills teaching curriculum has the following elements:
- Suitable for both online and in-person teaching environments
- Maintains in-class programs and extracurricular clubs as before, though now designed to better support an online environment
- Contained in an online curriculum database for use by CIC management and instructors.
- A stronger supporting chess curriculum component
- A better-defined life skills curriculum component, drawing from various life skills models and science
- Greater participation by CIC instructors in developing, documenting, storing and sharing their individual lessons and lesson plans for multi-week courses
- A predefined structure for saving chess studies and related life skills content
The new chess curriculum official launched on January 1, 2022. Our aim is to ensure that our students and their parents continue to view our Chess to Life™ programs as fun, engaging and inspiring, while students successfully improve both their chess skills and life skills. We are both excited and proud to have embarked on this new curriculum update project for CIC.
