Both competitive debaters and professionals can benefit from personalized coaching. Work with a Rhetorica coach to identify your goals and to create an individualized plan to improve. By breaking down your performance into each of its components, we can focus on each one in turn and your coach will be with you every step of the way.
Competitive Debate Tournament Coaching
Rhetorica works with a wide number of expert coaches who have a track record of competing in and coaching teams through major national and international tournaments. Rhetorica works with specialists in British Parliamentary, APDA, Public Forum, Policy, Student Congress, and Lincoln-Douglass formats. Face to face coaching is currently available in New York City, with online sessions available globally. We believe that in order to improve your competitive performance, it is important to isolate and train each necessary skill. Professional athletes don’t just play practice games in order to improve. They choose particular skills and focus on each of them until they are mastered. We take the same detailed approach to debate coaching. All coaching partnerships begin with an assessment to determine areas of strength and targets for improvement. This is accomplished both through self assessment and video review of practice rounds. Coaches then work with each student individually to come up with practice plans for the identified skills. Rhetorica competitive debate coaching is for students who are serious about improving their skills and debate performance and want to push themselves to their full potential. Depending on your debate format, coaches can also provide feedback on case construction, topic analysis, and strategy.
Matching with a Rhetorica coach who is an expert in your competition format
Video assessment to identify areas of strength and areas for growth
Personalized curriculum to focus on individual skills until each is mastered
Case construction, strategy, and tournament support
Coaching available in NYC or online