Education World – Keith Lambert
“If you’re looking for ways to increase engagement in your classes, while getting your students writing, and increasing the amount of time they spend reading, analyzing, and evaluating texts: you need debate in your life. There are many structures debate can take in your classroom: from Socratic seminars to fishbowls to more formal Lincoln-Douglas-style debates, but don’t be scared off by the formalities! You don’t have to be the advisor of your school’s debate club to bring elements of it into your classroom. Today, Education World looks at easy ways you can integrate debate into your classroom, by giving students choice in what they debate about. Allow them to browse the suggestions below to find the subjects that gets them excited about argument.” (more)