Debate meets all the criteria for "engaged learning" at its best. Grapple with rich content, produce something from it, get and respond to critical feedback. It also establishes a standard, a bar of performance, with the competition. All this assumes that the topics are signficant, the research is necessary, and the feedback comes throughout the process as well as in the final product.
The New Neuroscientific Reading Skills Training Method & System boosts reading scores as a result of this 3 month reading skills training. Debating is a tangential additional, but unnecessary means to boost reading skills and scores. Contact JoAnne Leff at jleff41@gmail.com for further information
I participated in Speech and Debate when I was in High School in the late 80's - it was great. Apart from honing research and critical thinking skills, it forced you to read broadly and be able to argue both sides of the proposition.
I love this information & was wondering if it should occur in the lower grades. If so, could you suggest an approximate age/grade we could begin the process?
Debate meets all the criteria for "engaged learning" at its best. Grapple with rich content, produce something from it, get and respond to critical feedback. It also establishes a standard, a bar of performance, with the competition. All this assumes that the topics are signficant, the research is necessary, and the feedback comes throughout the process as well as in the final product.
The New Neuroscientific Reading Skills Training Method & System boosts reading scores as a result of this 3 month reading skills training. Debating is a tangential additional, but unnecessary means to boost reading skills and scores. Contact JoAnne Leff at jleff41@gmail.com for further information
I participated in Speech and Debate when I was in High School in the late 80's - it was great. Apart from honing research and critical thinking skills, it forced you to read broadly and be able to argue both sides of the proposition.
I love this information & was wondering if it should occur in the lower grades. If so, could you suggest an approximate age/grade we could begin the process?
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This is excellent and it is clear that debating would develop the type of thinking that helps write arguments.