Resources for HUDL Coaches

Coaching Materials

NAUDL has produced ten guides to help coaches manage many aspects of the difficult job of coaching a debate team. These materials can be accessed one section at a time or you can download it as a single PDF-formatted manual.

1. Guide for Starting the Team [ Word | Pdf ]

• Bare Necessities, Recruiting Team Members, Informational Meeting, Building Support in the School, Building Support Outside, Managing Time Demands, Setting Expectations, Sample Mini-Debate Topics, Following Up with Recruits, Caution about the Media

• Recruitment and Retention, Weekly Team Meetings, Establishing Partnerships, Student Leadership, Agendas for Team Meetings, Building Team Unity, Troubleshooting Partner Issues, Record Keeping

• Local Seminars, Web Resources, Summer Camps for Students, Other Leagues and Competition, Local Universities, College Admissions, Talking about College Debate, NAUDL Online Guide to Workshops, Stepping Outside Your League, Choosing a Summer Camp

• Learning to be a Debate Coach, Coaching Colleagues, Manuals and Textbooks, University Assistants, Summer Workshops for Coaches, School Support, NAUDL Policy Debate Manual, Defraying Workshop Costs, Limits of University Assistants

• Preliminary Rounds, Elimination Rounds, Attending Local Tournaments, Networking, Observing Rounds, Keeping Things Running, After the Tournament, Attending Out of Town Tournaments, Finding Judges, Expectations for Behavior, Etiquette for Observing Debates, A Sample Tournament, Choosing Among Teams

• Forging Partnerships, Widening Audiences, Increasing Recruitment, Political Change

• What is an Argument?, Winning Clash Battles, Flowing, Evidence, Research Strategies

• Verbal Communication, Non-verbal Communication, Cross-Examination, Practice Makes Perfect

• The Affirmative Case, Solvency and the Affirmative Plan, Sample Outline for the Affirmative Case and Plan, First Affirmative Constructive, Second Affirmative Constructive, First Affirmative Rebuttal, Second Affirmative Rebuttal

• Designing the Negative Strategy, Topicality, Case Debate, Disadvantages, Counterplans, Critiques, First Negative Constructive, Second Negative Constructive, First Negative Rebuttal, Second Negative Rebuttal

Resources for HUDL Judges

1.Click here for a basic guide for judging a debate round.