Comments for NSDA Learn

Comment on Collaborate by Rebecca Mantooth

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:00:53 +0000

My students need to reflect on the amount of time spent in preparation and the overall outcome of their competition. I’d like for them to see the coorelation between practice and achievement.

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Comment on Collaborate by Rebecca Mantooth

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:55:51 +0000

I would like to have a big brother/big sister type partnership between my novice and experienced competitors. I would like for each novice to sit down with their big bro/sis after each tournament or practice round and sift through the ballots looking for common threads and marking areas for improvement.

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Comment on Collaborate by Rebecca Mantooth

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:49:55 +0000

Our team only recently started using videos to allow students to view their congressional debate speeches. I need to use them on a weekly basis and require students to evaluate themselves more.

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Comment on Collaborate by Chris Rothgeb

Thu, 15 May 2025 17:27:35 +0000

My goal is to increase my own competence of events I may not be as proficient in by encouraging more students to participate in them.

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Comment on Collaborate by Laura Herzog

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:37:24 +0000

I would first share with the students who have never participated in Speech and Debate a set of questions to understand their knowledge, believes and thoughts on what does being part of a Speech and Debate team mean for them. Then, I would create a game-based team-building session (in collaboration with the present Speech and Debate team) with some snacks and drinks at the end to encourage socialization. At the end of that session, I would give a set of questions to the potential new members to check if the activity has changed any of their previous knowledge, believes and thoughts, as well as to measure their willingness to join the team.

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Comment on Collaborate by Laura Herzog

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:21:01 +0000

I will set a weekly class to perform presentations. Students will have to build their speech on a concept that caught their attention the previous week, and perform a 5 minutes presentation in front of their peers. Each student who is listening to that presentation will have to write down two questions they want to ask the speaker at the end of his/her performance, and choose one of them to be asked. Once a month, instead of creating questions, the students will have to share with the speaker one thing they have loved about his/her performance and another thing they suggest him/her to improve. That way all students will improve their speaking and listening skills.

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Comment on Collaborate by Laura Herzog

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:06:27 +0000

My goal is to explore every type of debate and speech program, and understand how to identify which program is the best fit for each student.

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Comment on Reflection Questions by Erwin Suhendra

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:17:07 +0000

As a Coach, normally I would ask my team to understand the rules and regulation before following any organization or competition. Thus, we can develop strategies to practice and do some rehearsals

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Comment on Collaborate by WK Kay

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:26:54 +0000

We use our team drive (especially in Congress and PF) to share both prep and practice videos, so that students are accountable both to me and to each other, and can give feedback in all directions. This also allows me to see what other students are seeing in each other and utilize that in my feedback during practice/class.

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Comment on Collaborate by Sanchez Tucker

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:26:38 +0000

One of my goals this year is to have my students maintain a journal/document that outlines their feedback from each tournament with examples of how to continuously apply those notes.

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