There are classes with different levels which include Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, Kyu Research and Dan Research, held in Singapore Weiqi Association. I am responsible for teaching classes across all levels, for both school students and adults. The classes are normally conducted at night or during weekends, to cater for the requirement of learners who needs to go to schools or work during weekdays.

Currently, I have an Intermediate-level class that was started in July and will end in Nov 2010. The class has ten children who are from six to ten years old. The schedule of a lesson is one hour and fifteen minutes. For each lesson, I give lecture about the principles and rules of Baduk for first 20~25 minutes with typical examples and posting questions to students to enhance their learning and generate their interest.  It will then followed by problems solving by individual student, under my guidance, for another 10 minutes. After that, students are assigned to play games with their classmates, based on their past performance recorded in the result card. In order to generate the interest and to have a fair game among the students, handicap is given to a weaker player to start a game.

At the beginning of the course, a result card has been allocated to each student to keep track of their performance throughout the course. After finishing each game, I check the result and highlight mistakes made by students with detailed explanation, and few key points for them to take note. For result recording, points are credited to the winning party of a game. Extra points may be given to students who are well-behave in class, or have good and positive learning attitude, or have great improvement in their games.

Assigning result cards with different colors, especially the favorite colors of children, is also being used in my class. This is to stimulate the interest among children and to motivate them to pursuit better performance in every single game.

There are two main problems faced by beginners, especially for children, one is the proper way of holding a stone, and the other one is the fear of using a 19x19 Baduk board instead of 13x13 board or 9x9 board. As proper way of holding stones is the basic and important etiquette in Baduk, students have been reminded constantly whenever they have wrong way of holding a stone. At the time when the class needs to change to play on 19x19 board, extra bonus points are given to students who use 19x19 board instead of 13x13 board. This helps to encourage them to make the change, and to overcome the fear of using a bigger board.

As a teacher, it has been my pleasure in teaching and guiding my students to appreciate the beauty of Baduk. I am always pleased to see them improving their Baduk skill and becoming a well-behave person with great mind and patience under the influence of Baduk.  I would be very proud of them when they become Dan players who gaining many valuable things and friendship through Baduk.