Standards:Local Accreditation Criteria Questions for Non-Affiliates
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]Club
- How often does the club meet?
- What is the content of an average club meeting and/or practice session?
- How many members are in the club?
- What is the academic, social, ethnic and religious breakdown of members?
- How does the club integrate their activities within the school environment?
- How does the club promote speech and debate for audiences not directly involved in club activities?
- How does the club assist in the development of speech and debate in communities and/or raise awareness of important issues among the general public?
- What community activities are club members involved in?
- What educational resources are available to club members and how are they encouraged to use them?
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]Resource Center
- What hours is the center open?
- What equipment does the center have - e.g. computer with internet access, a printer, photocopy machine?
- To whom is the center available?
- Is the center handicapped accessible?
- Describe the instructional and pedagogical materials contained in the center?
- What topic specific resources are available?
- How does the center support and promote speech and debate activities in the region and/or country served by the center?
- Name(s) and contact information of the personnel who:
- staff and maintain the center
- opens and closes the center
- oversees the center's equipment and resources
- provides assistance to teachers, students and coaches
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]Teacher
- What language(s) do you feel comfortable teaching in?
- What skills have you had experience teaching (e.g. refutation, advocacy, conflict resolution, negotiation skills, Debate Across the Curriculum)?
- What age groups and what size audience do you feel comfortable teaching?
- What debate formats have you had experience teaching?
- Briefly describe your background as a teacher.
- Please discuss your teaching philosophy (upload supplements, etc.).
- Please outline your professional experience and future plans.
- Please describe any mentoring experiences that you have had.
- Describe an authentic or hypothetical problem and how you did or would solve it.
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]Trainer
- What language(s) do you feel comfortable training in?
- What skills have you had experience training (e.g. refutation, advocacy, conflict resolution, negotiation skills, Debate Across the Curriculum)?
- What age groups and what size audience do you feel comfortable training?
- What debate formats have you had experience training?
- Briefly describe your background as a trainer.
- Please discuss your training philosophy (upload supplements, etc.).
- Please outline your professional experience and future plans.
- Please describe any mentoring experiences that you have had.
- Describe an authentic or hypothetical problem and how you did or would solve it.
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]Coach
- What language(s) do you feel comfortable coaching in?
- What skills have you had experience coaching (e.g. refutation, analysis, etc.)
- What age groups and what size audience do you feel comfortable coaching?
- What debate formats have you had experience coaching?
- Briefly describe your background as a coach.
- Please discuss your coaching philosophy (upload supplements, etc.).
- Please outline your professional experience and future plans.
- Please describe any mentoring experiences that you have had.
- Describe an authentic or hypothetical problem and how you did or would solve it.
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]Judge
- How many tournaments did you attend in the past year?
- How many rounds did you judge?
- What events and debate formats do you feel qualified to judge?
- In what language(s) do you feel comfortable judging?
- What age groups do you feel comfortable judging?
- Briefly discuss your background as a judge.
- Please discuss your judging philosophy.
- Is your debate judging philosophy entered into DebateTracker?
- What do you focus on in your feedback to students regarding their performance?