Where and when do we meet?
We meet at Bethel Baptist Temple on Plainfield Road in Blue Ash, Ohio. Our meetings in 2012-2013 will take place on Thursdays from 9:00-2:30.
Intermediate/Advanced Debaters only- 9:00-10:00
All Debaters- 10:00-12:00
Lunch- 12:00-12:30
Speech- 12:30-2:30
We will be meeting weekly in the first semester and every other week in the second semester, due to the many qualifying tournaments. We will kick off the year with our first weekly club meeting on the 13th, and will run through Thursday, December 6th.
Intermediate/Advanced Debaters only- 9:00-10:00
All Debaters- 10:00-12:00
Lunch- 12:00-12:30
Speech- 12:30-2:30
We will be meeting weekly in the first semester and every other week in the second semester, due to the many qualifying tournaments. We will kick off the year with our first weekly club meeting on the 13th, and will run through Thursday, December 6th.
How do we teach?
First and foremost, we teach that the purpose of our communication is not to win awards and earn a reputation, but to glorify God, and we are blessed to be in an organization that advocates the same. We are also a teaching club; practice and trial and error are a huge part of speech, but learning theory to apply to our speech is just as important. Thus, our class time carefully balances the two. Additionally, we understand that each child learns and thinks differently, thus, besides large group teaching, we divide up into small groups of two or three to allow each child time to preform and be critiqued by a more experienced speaker, whether coach or advanced student. Finally, as the maxim goes, we retain only 10% of what we learn, but 90% of what we teach. We are a build-from-within club and thus allow the advanced students to lead and teach the class as much as possible. First, this allows the novice students to learn from those who can relate really well with their situation and understand it uniquely different from adults. Both adults and advanced students teaching the novices gives a well-rounded balance of perspective. Second, this helps the advanced students to learn to speak on an even higher level, and teaching in and of itself is a lesson in communication. Third, this gives the novices something to look forward to when they progress to that level, and avoids the problem of the returning students having to "listen to the same thing" every year. Fourth and finally, this provides homeschool students with an opportunity to gain the leadership experience and position that colleges look for on a resume when determining scholarships.