Teachers' Institute 2010 We have designed the TCDG Teachers' Institute to engage teachers of all levels of debate and coaching experience, aiding them in improving their own skills at argumentation, in debate theory, in curriculum design, and in critiquing CX and LD debate rounds. Our goal at TCDG is to devote the entire time that you spend with us to meeting your individual needs as a teacher and as a coach.
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I would like to participate in the following plans (mark all that apply):	Curriculum Cross Examination Debate Lincoln-Douglas Debate
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Check the option you prefer:	Tuition, individual dorm room, and meals: $550 Tuition only (does not include dorm or meals): $350
Realizing that teachers may want to specialize in one particular area, the institute is designed around three specific plans: Curriculum, CX, and LD. You may choose to specialize in one of these areas, or you may choose to generalize your plan and take classes in a variety of the plans.
Curriculum Specific Plan • Improve teaching strategies for debate • Write curriculum and design effective lesson plans • Learn how to do better internet-based research • Learn how to do flowing and speaking drills to help raise your students’ speaker points • Help teachers improve after school coaching practices • Watch experienced high school teachers critique CX and LD debates • Learn how to do effective critiques of rounds • Learn to improve judging skills • Maximize classroom time when the “forensic” class includes students in various forensic events CX Specific Plan • Gain important background knowledge on the 2010-2011 high school CX resolution with a special emphasis on legal knowledge • Learn how to write and run disadvantages • Learn how to write and run counterplans • Learn how to write different styles of a 1AC • Learn how to write, run, and answer topicality • Learn how to run (and how to beat) kritiks • Learn more about CX debate theory • Go home with approximately 500 pages of quality CX evidence (including affirmative cases, case-specific negative material for those cases, and the 2010 TCDG topicality file) LD Specific Plan • Topic analysis research for the all of the possible upcoming UIL resolutions for 2010-2011 • Learn about different philosophical schools of thought and how to use them in LD • Learn about recent developments in LD theory • Learn about case construction (basic and advanced) • Learn about kritiks in LD • Learn about solvency in LD • Go home with topicspecific research on all possible upcoming UIL resolutions for 2010-2011
I would like to participate in the following plans:	Curriculum CX LD