Planning the Play

Looking for a Better Approach to Teaching Declarer Play? This manual is a presentation-ready Teacher's Manual for the first part of the ABTA award-winning book, Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand, by Barbara Seagram and David Bird. Six lesson plans are laid out with a word-by-word script, periodic reviews, and two review handouts to give to the class. Teacher preparation is minimal, and the course is fun and rewarding to teach. The course is aimed at novices with some experience, up to and including intermediates who want to solidify their basic declarer play skills and add to their thinking and technical repertoire-in other words, the vast majority of bridge players. This is the course on declarer play that your students are begging for! Your students are about to make significant strides in their knowledge and enjoyment of bridge. JONATHAN SHUTE (Sackville, NB) is well known in Atlantic Canada as a bridge player (Gold Life Master), teacher, and writer. He believes wholeheartedly that bridge should be a fun game, and strongly supports the concept of Zero Tolerance for impolite behavior. Jonathan has a degree in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire, and an MBA from Dalhousie University in Halifax, and is a retired Business Administrator.