HomeAlumniHistory of BU DebateProspective DebatersCoachesDebatersSummer Workshop2-week Policy Lab2-week LD Lab1-week Labs (Policy/LD)Teacher's Lab

Sunday, July 8 - Sunday, July 15, 2012

Cost: $650.00

Price includes:

  • room and board
  • tuition
  • sample lesson plans
  • all workshop materials

About the Workshop

  • Lectures by directors of the nation's leading high school and college forensics programs in coaching, administering a squad, administering a tournament, and argumentation and debate.
  • Teachers work directly with debate squads to learn effective coaching techniques.
  • Teachers receive numerous instructional materials including a full lesson plan for teaching a year-long or semester-long debate course, syllabi, lecture discussion guides, sample cases and affirmative and negative briefs, many handouts, homework assignments and tests. All interested teachers will be provided with computer software and instruction necessary to schedule and tabulate a debate tournament on the Macintosh computer.
  • Interaction among teachers and workshop staff is encouraged to discuss contemporary problems in forensics and ways to overcome these problems, as well as to share ideas and gain new acquaintances on the forensics circuit.
  • An individual course of instruction is established for each individual teacher, regardless of whether they are a beginner or an experienced veteran.

Cost

$650.00 - Price includes room and board, tuition, sample lesson plans and all workshop materials.

Workshop staff

Lectures by directors of the nation's leading high school and college forensics programs in coaching, administering a squad, administering a tournament, and argumentation and debate. Our theory lectures are given by reputable debate theoristtaffwho have published articles in scholarly journals and have attended numerous conferences on argumentation and debate.

Download the 2012 Teacher Workshop application

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