CDE Seminar

Topic:

• Written Examination
  -CDE section requirements
  -Building practice tests for teams
  -Materials use for team members for studying for test
  -Evaluation methods for team practices
  -Value of using SAEP's Accredited Parliamentarian Exam for team
  
  Resume:
  
• Professional Accredited Parliamentarian
  
• Coached teams that placed 1st, 4th, and 5th in the national CDE written examination
  
• Coached 4 national gold medal teams, including 2nd place in 2008
  
• Judged national CDE
  

Topic:

• Team Presentation
  -CDE section requirements
  -Are you the instructor ready to coach, and or coaching the team correctly?
  -Strategy that Works and Strategy that DOESN’T Work
  -Clock Management for the Good of the Team and the Health of the Teacher
  -What are the Judges Looking for and What do they Hate?
  -Overcoming Adversity and Fixing Mistakes
  -Training, Coaching, Practicing and Judging Good Debates
  -Impress the Judges without trying to impress them.
  -What do to when you are sick of listening to your own debaters?
  -To script or not to script, that is the question.
  -To be good or to be flashy.
  -Don’t build houses with the gavel.
  -How much presentation practice does it take?
  -Recruitment and Selection of a team.
  -Secrets, Tips, Pranks, Exercises and other Torture Techniques for your team.
  Resume:
  
• Professional Accredited Parliamentarian
  
• Coached 1st place 2008 national gold medal team
  
• Judged national CDE
  

Topics:

• Introductions
  
• CDE Overview
  
• Score Sheet
  
• Minutes
  -CDE Section Requirements
  -A comparison of FFA and Robert's Rules of Order
  -Training your secretary to take CDE minutes
  
  Resume:
  
• Professional Accredited Parliamentarian, and Member of the National Association of Parliamentarians
  
• Superintendent for the national FFA Parliamentary Procedure CDE
  
• Teacher-Educator, University of Idaho
  
• Writes written examination for national CDE
  

Topics:

• Oral Questions
  -CDE Section requirements
  -Strategies for introducing to team
  -How to build a bank of oral questions
  -Using the questions
  
• Questions from Participants
  
• Seminar Summary
  
• Drawings for Door Prizes
  
  Resume:
  
• Professional Accredited Parliamentarian and Professional Registered Parliamentarian
  
• Coached 1st and 3rd place national gold medal teams
  
• Judged national CDE and collegiate contest
  
• Wrote examinations for national FFA CDE and collegiate contest
  

• Parliamentary Procedure Judging Guide (a $15, 110-page manual that is used to train judges and teams.)
  
• Web sites for parliamentary procedure materials
  
• FREE drawings for parliamentary procedure instructional materials valued at over $200.00
  

• Register by September 15th---Sign up early, enrollment is limited!
• Purchase orders will not be accepted.
  
• Send a $50, non-refundable check payable to “SAEP” and the completed registration form below to:
  
  ____________________________________
  
  Shane Dunbar, SAEP Parliamentarian
  P.O. Box 13753
  Mill Creek, WA 98082-1753
  ____________________________________
  
  
• Receipts will be provided at the seminar for reimbursement.
  
• Contact Shane Dunbar --- dunbar@northwest.net --- if there are questions.
  
  
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