Will you be teaching groups of people or one on one?
Children or adults?
I've been teaching beginners since 2004.
I have more experience teaching kids. After going through how the pieces move, development, fighting for the center etc I go through simple checkmates, heavy piece mates, back rank, smothered etc.
With kids I start with say back rank mate in one with a rook, then a mate in two which ends the same way by adding a couple of extra pieces. Builds some pattern recognition and confidence.
Also Simple endgames. P+K vs K, then add rooks etc, Forks pins skewers etc. etc.
Miniature games on the demo board.
It pays to be flexible and you will develop your own style of coaching with time.
@VladimirFreddie said in #11:
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I'll be teaching a couple of kids and a couple of young teens(12-14)
@Sun_Tzu_Student said in #12:
> I'll be teaching a couple of kids and a couple of young teens(12-14)
I'm sure you'll be fine.
It's always a bit of a challenge keeping it interesting for various skill levels. So I try to aim certain questions to the less experienced and then also ask the better players what they would do and why. Then explain your point of view/best move and why too.
Just keep it fun, especially for the younger ones. Depending how young I sometimes will play a game against them just with pawns to start off. Then add a King etc. Although I have had 4 year olds who were already quite strong players to start with!
You can even use the lichess.org/learn with them
and if you look at my studies you may find some useful stuff to use too https://lichess.org/study/by/VladimirFreddie
Bring the kids to local chess club and let them have a good experience with other kids there
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