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KGS Mentoring Scheme
Keywords: Online Go
I started the KGS Mentoring Scheme mainly to help beginners learn and understand Go in a coherent fashion. Unfortunately I was unable to continue maintaining the scheme although there was considerable interest. What I proposed was to have people in the scheme assigned a student AND a mentor: Someone they could teach and someone they could learn from. My philosophy on teaching is that almost everyone should be teaching someone else. To teach is to learn twice, or so I believe. By trying to explain what you understand to someone else, you are forced to justify your own beliefs in the process. The way the scheme began was to have someone 6 stones stronger act as a mentor for someone else and help them gain 3 stones. My hope was that the student would get more coherent guidance, rather than learning through trial-and-error and isolated teaching games. Since I cannot continue maintaining the scheme I am opening it up to the public forum (a great suggestion made by a couple of people). Whether or not people wish to stick to the ideas as I have layed them out above is unimportant - I hope the scheme will continue to evolve and be useful. -- JadeGarden
If you want to know how to add yourself to this page, see my homepage. iLoveSai.
Shaydwyrm: Another thing I'd like to add is that the first thing you should do after adding yourself to this list is find a prospective mentor and student on the list that could match up with you. A lot of people seem to just be sitting on the list, hoping that someone will offer to mentor them or ask to be their student (or maybe they just haven't updated the list...). Take the initiative and ask someone to mentor you if you're looking for a teacher, and teachers, feel free to be nice and offer to mentor someone ^_^. Unless there's nobody around 6 stones away from you, I would say you should not stay on the unmatched list for more than a week. jfc: how about a KGS room where unpaired students and mentors can hang out and meet? This way it is easy to see who, among the unpaired folks, logs on the same time as you. Mef: The KGS Teaching Ladder may work for something along those lines. Mentors and students
Mentors in-waiting
Students in-waiting
See also: KGS Arch-Nemesis Scheme, KGS Teaching Ladder. This is a copy of the living page "KGS Mentoring Scheme" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |