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Middle & High School Policy Coach Curriculum Home
Welcome to the AUDL coach curriculum home for middle school and high school policy debate. This curriculum is divided into 4 sections: Starting Your Team, Introducing Policy Debate, Intermediate Debate Skills, and Advanced Debate Skills. Starting Your Team has activities for new debate programs, tournament guides, recruitment tips, and an overview of AUDL resources available for coaches. The other three sections include content overviews and lesson plans for key debate skills.
Starting Your Team
First Practices
First Speeches
First Debates
Tournaments - What to Expect
Tournaments - Registration
Building Your Team - Recruitment & Retention
I Need Help! - Available Resources
Introducing Policy Debate
Debate Structure
Being Affirmative
Being Negative
Introduction to Flowing
Introduction to Cross-Examination
Intermediate Debate Skills
What Is an Intermediate Debater?
Argument Selection
Evidence Comparison (ABCD)
Judge Adaptation
Flowing - Intermediate
Advanced Debate Skills
What Is a Varsity Debater?
What Is an Advocacy?
Counterplans
Kritiks
Producing Evidence