On teaching debate: →
I don’t teach debate. Not at all. But I’ve used debate as a method and discovered, more often than not, that my kids tend to talk past one another. The whole idea of addressing the argument of your opponent, whether in formal debate or in classroom discussion has eluded them.
So one of the things…
This is great–so relevant and necessary. And I see a strong parallel to how I teach the basics of writing a strong paragraph/argument via the TAXES structure. Definitely might do this too!