Monday, October 10, 2011
Teamwork
Have you ever heard of the quote "Together we grow stronger"? It refers to the fact that when people work together, they all benifit and get better. Debate club gives a chance to students to benifit together in a fun and exciting environment. When we prepare for tournaments we are assigned two other students as teammates. When we have practice rounds, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE that you work with. When everybody does research at home, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE you divide the tasks among. No matter how good you are, you cannot go into a tournament without ever working with your partners, and expect to win. You may be as good as president Obama, but you MUST work with your partners to succeed. Debate presses on you the importance of teamwork. Teamwork is a skill that is ESSENTIAL to success later on in life. Besides teamwork, everybody in debate club also grows bonds with the other members. I know people who came into debate club not knowing anyone, and by the end of the year all of their best friends were from the club. This club gives students a chance to perfect the skills they need for success later on, and to make friends and have fun. Please share how debate has taught you teamwork and given you stronger bonds to other students.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I agree with Jeffrey, we had two teams go to the national debate competition last year and without teamwork, none of them could have even dreamed of going their. With teamwork, one of those teams could not be ranked in the top 20 teams of the nation. Furthermore I believe we as a club had to have some structure and teamwork in order for each of the teams to achieve what they did. We all had to be willing to work with different people so that we could have better groups so that we as a school could win trophies. But its not all about winning trophies of course, Teamwork will be essential anywhere you go. No matter what you do you still have to be able to work with people and I feel the debate forum that is used in this debate league if perfect to introduce such abilities to the next generation of leaders(ourselves).
ReplyDelete