Middle & High School Policy Coach Curriculum Home

Welcome to the AUDL coach curriculum home for middle school and high school policy debate. This curriculum is divided into 4 sections: Starting Your Team, Introducing Policy Debate, Intermediate Debate Skills, and Advanced Debate Skills. Starting Your Team has activities for new debate programs, tournament guides, recruitment tips, and an overview of AUDL resources available for coaches. The other three sections include content overviews and lesson plans for key debate skills.

Starting Your Team

• First Practices

• First Speeches

• First Debates

• Tournaments - What to Expect

• Tournaments - Registration

• Building Your Team - Recruitment & Retention

• I Need Help! - Available Resources

Introducing Policy Debate

• Debate Structure

• Being Affirmative

• Being Negative

• Introduction to Flowing

• Introduction to Cross-Examination

• Working Through the Packet

Intermediate Debate Skills

• What Is an Intermediate Debater?

• Argument Selection

• Evidence Comparison (ABCD)

• Judge Adaptation

• Flowing - Intermediate

Advanced Debate Skills

• What Is a Varsity Debater?

• What Is an Advocacy?

• Counterplans

• Kritiks

• Producing Evidence