完整的 12 週英語課程 - 初學者透過辯論進行公開演講

During this twelve week long curriculum, which will meet twice per week, students will learn to become better readers, public speakers, critical thinkers, while improving their ability to respond to others, take notes, and research. This first day of each week will consist of a short lesson plan immediately followed by an activity to help the students internalize the lesson of the day. The design of this activity will help with the impromptu public speaking skills necessary to be effective at communicating with others. The second day of each week will repeat the activity but with a preassigned topic, giving students the opportunity to prepare ahead of time. This helps with improving research skills while giving students the ability to take the feedback from the first day and then improve upon that performance. Over the course of the curriculum students will learn how to form arguments, listen to their opponents, develop critical thinking skills, and discern the difference between reliable and unreliable sources for evidence. In the process of debating, and interacting with their peers and the instructor, students will learn to speak to a diversity of different people in order to learn how to adapt their arguments to the audience they're speaking to while improving their logical reasoning, as well as their ability to listen and understand others. Students will also participate in reading and speaking drills outside of debates to help become better at reading comprehension and self-confidence. A breakdown of the course is as follows...

Week 1, Day 1: The Basics of Debate and Mini-Debates.
Week 1, Day 2: Mini-Debates with Topics Assigned Ahead of Time
Week 2, Day 1: Learning How to Impact and Weigh Arguments
Week 2, Day 2: Repeat the Activity with Topic Assigned Ahead of Time
Week 3, Day 1: Audience Adaptation and Persuasive Speaking Skills
Week 3, Day 2: Repeat the Activity with Topic Assigned Ahead of Time
Week 4, Day 1: Asking and Answering Questions to Win
Week 4, Day 2: Reading Drills, Mini-Debates with Questions and Topics Assigned Ahead of Time
Week 5, Day 1: Impromptu Mini-Tournament Combining All the Skills
Week 5, Day 2: Researched Mini-Tournament Combing All the Skills
Week 6, Day 1: Recap of Basics of Debate, Speaking Drills, Debate Format
Week 6, Day 2: Working With Partners and Debating Topics
Week 7, Day 1: Disadvantages and Opportunity Costs, and Research
Week 7, Day 2: Repeat the Activity with Topic Assigned Ahead of Time
Week 8, Day 1: Procedural Argumentation and Philosophy
Week 8, Day 2: Repeat the Activity with Topic Assigned Ahead of Time
Week 9, Day 1: Recap on Intermediate Argumentation, A Lesson on Disadvantages, and a Return to Adventuring
Week 9, Day 2: Repeat the Activity with Topic Assigned Ahead of Time 
Week 10, Day 1: A Lesson on Opportunity Costs, and Role Playing the Options
Week 10, Day 2: Repeat the Activity with Topic Assigned Ahead of Time
Week 11, Day 1: Class Tournament, Partners, Format, Speaking Drills, and Prep Time
Week 11, Day 2: Class Tournament, Day One
Week 12, Day 1: Class Tournament, Day Two
Week 12, Day 2: Awards Ceremony and Goodbyes

At the conclusion of the curriculum, students will be given a certificate of completion, and the top 25% of the class will be given an award testifying to their accomplishments. At the end of each week, parents will be sent a note by the teacher informing them of their child's strengths and weakness so they can improve. Students will be given oral feedback after each debate and will learn to give their peers constructive feedback as well.