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Training debaters is a continual process. There is not enough time to adequately prepare students for everything they need to know in debate. Therefore, this guide is to help you understand the most important features students need to understand to get started in debate.
RESOURCE 13. Debate Skill Drills and Warm-Ups. In full-fledged formats, debate can be overwhelming if you have not yet built up your spontaneous speaking and argumentation skills. Drills and warm-ups can help you keep sharp and focus on specific debate-related skills.
Download the Debate Guide (PDF) Debate is an engaging and rigorous way to explore issues that directly impact society -- it also trains your brain to listen carefully, which is important for leaders!
In most high school tour-nament settings, Policy Team Debate involves learning about, and discuss-ing, real world problems and solutions, essentially boiling down to: why prob-lems exist and how an example of the Resolution called the Afirmative Plan, can solve the problems without creat-ing new ones.
• Understand the concept of debate, its purposes, and benefits • Learn the different types of debate and the key terms used in the YMV programme • Familiarize themselves with the most common debate formats 2. Introduction A debate is a formal discussion on a particular matter in a public event, a legislative assembly, or simply in a
• Understand the concept of debate, its purposes, and benefits • Learn the different types of debate and the key terms used in the YMV programme • Familiarize themselves with the most common debate formats 2. Introduction A debate is a formal discussion on a particular matter in a public event, a legislative assembly, or simply in a
A STUDENT GUIDE TO DEBATE. 1. Debate Structure. 2 teams – Proposition & Opposition. 3 speakers per team. 1.1 Who else is present? Speaker of the House – chairs the debate; technically all speeches and points of information are directed to him/her, they call each debater to the floor, etc. Timekeeper. Judge(s) Audience Members. 1.2 National Times.
