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Here you’ll find everything you need to guide, instruct, and prepare your students for speech and debate competition.
You can use the following audio and video tracks as resources on various topics you’ll encounter while coaching a speech and debate team.
Additionally, you’ll find sheets, drills, tools, manuals, games, and more.
Speech and debate is one of the most powerful activities a high school student could participate in. When a student participates in speech and debate, they gain skills that will benefit them for a lifetime. But they don’t attain these skills by themselves. Every student needs guidance as they develop. Who will do this vital training? Coaches, of course!
Although, coaches and parents need guidance too. Forensics Academy is our way of helping you as you train the next generation of Christian leaders. We cover everything a coach needs to know, from a basic understanding of theory and strategy, to starting your own team, coaching techniques, integrating worldviews into the topic, and dealing with attitude and character issues. These sessions are for both new and aspiring coaches.
No experience? No problem. We’ll walk you through the steps you’ll take to start a team and keep it going. You’ll learn about the format and structure of team policy debate – how to train and how to compete at tournaments. You’ll learn about different types of arguments, effective teaching methods, and strategies too. Essentially, you’ll learn the basics you need to know if you’ve never been a part of this activity before.
All speeches can be improved by implementing simple strategies. In this seminar we will be covering the basics of using presentation to bring power to a speech as well as methods to help your students build better Impromptu Speeches.
Teresa Eschen
Help your students improve their speaking skills. Picking up where Part 1 left off, this session gives tips on building better Persuasive and Apologetics speeches while also introducing the new Monologue speech event.
Teresa Eschen
For those new to debate theory and concepts this is the perfect place to start. For experienced coaches this is a good refresher. This session looks at the fundamentals of debate theory, specifically looking at the Stock Issues, what they mean and why they matter — both in debate and the real world.
Mary Winther
This session explores the standards for quality research and evidence. It looks at what the requirements are for evidence to be admissible in a round and ways to teach your students to research better.
Kelsey Winther
In Team Policy Debate, every speech is not the same—at least they are not supposed to be. In a well- ordered debate round, each debater has different and unique responsibilities. This session introduces the concept of “division of labor” and explains the responsibilities of each speaker in a debate round. Division of labor also extends beyond the debate round—it also creates different responsibilities when researching.
Mary Winther
This session takes a first look at the 2022-2023 debate resolution and provides a wealth of resources on potential cases.
Gregory Rehmke
This session provides additional information regarding the resolution and its stance from a biblical worldview.
Mary Winther & Greg Rehmke
Who doesn’t like to have fun? This session provides some creative ways to keep students engaged, including a variety of games and activities that will help improve your student’s skills all while having fun!
Diana Higginson
Hosting a tournament doesn’t have to be challenging. This session goes over all the functions of a tournament as well as how to plan, prepare and make a schedule that works. It also discusses the new league standards and answer any questions regarding the updates.
Diana Higginson
The following exercises are great to use as icebreakers or as part of your lesson. They are also a good way to incorporate a little fun into the learning process!