Matan, I think your advice is good, and also can give stronger players ideas. I use a profesional chessteacher for a few hours, and my homework now, guess what it is?It is study Morphygames, and analyze them.
Andreas Skotheim have made very good progress this year too, and one of his best tricks is playing otb-tournamnets, and playing in a chessclub, and of course his activity here at chess.com. In my club we also have many young people with fantastic progress the last year, and some of them are taking lessons with a master, besides playing a lot of tournamentgames.
I disagree that players like me (weak players) is not qualified to advice. We are in the middle of a learningprocess, and we see what works for us, and what works for our clubmates. A kid in my club, has jumped to 2257 Fide now, and I partially know how he got there. It interests me.
How to reach 2257 Fide can of course be better explained by GM Vladimir Georgiev. He knows. And he gives coaching on skype at a reasonable price.
First off, the term "Weak player" is relative. When you are a 1500 player, you are considered a very strong player in comparsion to 1000 players.
If you reached 1500, and you can guide other people towards reaching the same rating, what's wrong about it? You don't have to be a 2000 player to tell people how you got to 1500 LoL
Second off, I disagree with your claim that traps improve your memory and not improve your tactics. Every trap that you learn consists of tactics. When you learn a new trap, you learn new tactics as well.
As for positional concept - No doubt its important. I forgot to mention it in my post, sorry about that.
And that's exactly where you got it wrong.
You DO have to be 2000 to counsil people below 1500.
Otherwise you'll give them false advice and pass over your mistakes and weaknesses to them. Even if all the students are below 1200, it is still required from the chess teacher at a club to be at least 1800+. You "forgetting" to mention positional play, which is the most important thing in all of chess, is not coincidental, it is the reason you and me shouldn't claim to be teachers.
Just like high school students shouldn't teach elementary school students. Try to imagine how bad your English would've been then. lol. Same about chess, let's try not to pass our errors to the begginers.
Also, learning tactics from puzzles and master games are the correct way. Learning them from opening traps encourages you to rely on known positions when you play, and thus improve your tactics much less than puzzles do, and are the incorrect way for begginers to start.
We'll disagree on that. I think every player can teach weaker players how to improve their chess, even a 1500 player like me can do it. My learning method is not false. It is good enough to get to 1500. If it wasn't good enough then I would've never reached a 1500+ rating.
By the way, My best teacher was a high-school student. Good teachers are measured by their teaching skills that aren't a function of knowledge whatsoever.