A professional who teaches individuals or groups contract bridge, evaluating individual abilities to determine method and technique of instruction. Responsibilities include:

• Explains card suits and values and methods of scoring.
• Lectures, illustrates, and demonstrates to teach conventions and playing of bridge hands.
• Supervises individual and group practice, using prearranged decks of cards.
• Prepares instructional materials for outside study assignments.
• Usually specializes in one system of bidding.
• May participate in bridge tournaments.
• May direct bridge tournaments.
• May write instructional bridge columns and articles on bridge tournaments for local newspaper.