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Climb the Mountain

Speech & Debate Foundation

 

Climb the Mountain provides support for coaches, students, and judges to build a bigger and even better speech and debate community.

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Judge Training . . . Climb the Mountain

Be the kind of judge most helpful to students and coaches.

Going through these Judge Training pages, you will receive tips for judging well, be given samples of judging to emulate, and given a chance to judge short speeches and debates yourself (with supportive feedback!). In the end, you’ll be prepared for judging because you will have done it.

Part 1: Basics of Judging Takes about 15 minutes

Part 2: Judging specific events Time spent depends on events

Part 3: Be a professional judge Takes about 15 minutes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ignore the below – this is for jim to work on . . .

--I’m a Parent . . . I’ve never done this before . . .

--I’m an experienced debater but I haven’t judged before . . .

--I’m a coach trying to refresh my judging skills . . .

--I’ve judged before but not this specific event . . .

--Judge shadowing project . . .

 

 

 

 

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