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Climb the Mountain Speech
& Debate Foundation Climb the Mountain
provides support for coaches, students, and judges to build a bigger and even
better speech and debate community. |
Recruiting
. . . Climb the Mountain Overall—Recruiting you should do to build up your team
--Promote
your team on campus with email/web/flyer announcements of successes, events. --Emails/posts/letters
to students and other teachers/faculty encouraging involvement in the
program. --Look
for talent—in your and colleague’s classes, college programs should seek
participants at high school tournaments, in recommendations from other
instructors. --Get
your students to reach out to other students—that makes a _big_ difference. --Encourage
recruits to come to events, provide food, and a safe, supportive atmosphere.
Suggestion: Have an event with an example debate/speeches, short training
session, and have the students engage in _very_ short debates/speeches—and
have food (Pizza? Candies? Veggies and Fruits?) available.
Encourage your students to talk and work with these new students in positive
ways. --When
a recruit emails/calls/contacts you—respond as quickly as possible; show your
interest. --Recruit
for diversity—reach out to women, non-whites, to those less represented on
your team and in the community. --College
coaches reaching out to high school students especially: Keep in contact with
updates every 2ish months. Phone calls can also be a
good way to build up a connection. --contact
advanced placement and other teachers to hook up to kids that show talent or
that would benefit from being in a public speaking class/debate --give
extra credit to students who get involved with the team --encourage
students in your own classes --contact
junior high/middle school kids coming into your high school; see if you can
get a mailing list from your school district and mail information about your
team to them --have
a mini institute at the beginning of the year where kids meet each other and
get involved. --have
a showcase where your students present speeches and debate; others see what
your students are doing thus impressing parents, other teachers,
administration, etc. |
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