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The Importance of Debate on the Child’s Mental Development:
Essential Debating Skills for the Classroom and Beyond

by Kate Shuster

Debate training helps students develop, practice, and refine skills that are essential for success in all levels of school and life. These skills include oral literacy, critical thinking, reading comprehension, evidence evaluation, media literacy, research competence, active listening, and collaborative learning. This session introduces teachers to curricular and extracurricular debating, drawing on research-based best practices for use in any classroom with any subject matter. Teachers in any subject area as well as administrators interested in beginning debating programs at their schools will benefit from this talk, which introduces debate essentials in a manner appropriate for integration into any classroom.

Audience: Teachers of upper elementary, middle and high school

 

 

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