[debate-l] IDEA Exchange: Value of Debate Workshop

[Jurate Motiejunaite]

Value/Impact of Debate Workshop

Workshop Facilitators:	Chris Baron
			Sharon Porter
			Joe Zompetti

Chris Baron - Chris has been involved with debate for twenty years.  He is a
firm believer in the power of debate as a tool for transforming society.  As
co-founder of the Baltimore Urban Debate League, Chris has helped
institutionalize successful debate programs in more than thirty public high
schools and twenty middle schools in the city.  Chris is also a debate coach
for the Towson University debate team, which has
IDEA graduates from all over the world.  This is his third year as an IDEA
governing board member.

Sharon Porter - Three years of experience teaching in a junior high school,
four years in a high school and twenty-five years as a college speech and
debate coach have shaped Sharon's view of the value and impact of debate.
Sharon has been active in many debate, individual events and honorary
forensic organizations in the United States.  She became a consultant for
IDEA when she retired from Northern Arizona University in 2004.

Joe Zompetti - Joe has nearly twenty years of experience with debate,
including working with both high school and college debate activities.  He
has coached a variety of different debate formats and has conducted
international trainings in several different countries.  Joe has been
involved with IDEA since 2002, and is currently on the Board of Directors of
IDEA-NL.


This workshop will cover one and a half hours of instruction and will
include the following objectives:
	A.	Acquaint participants with the value and impact of the debate
experience.
	B.	Share, discuss and debate the 'evidence' that the debate activity does
what we say it does.

The workshop will include the following sessions:
	1.	What are the values of debate?  What skills does debate teach?
	2.	What are the impacts of a debate experience?
	3.	How can individuals use the 'evidence' to sell debate to potential
funders, in department
		meetings, to school officials, etc."


Jurate Motiejunaite
IDEA Executive Director
www.idebate.org
Join TPS September 1 - November 30, 2006
www.idebate.org/thepeoplespeak

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