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TRTL Education Team Training

  1. Volunteer Application Form
  2. Background reading
  3. Pro-life Apologetics Training
    • offered regularly in partnership with UTSFL
    • training from CCBR, NCLN, CLCY also counts
  4. Dialogue-based activism experience strongly encouraged
    • good preparation for apologetics in practice, especially preparing for Q&A dialogue with students
    • encouraged to participate in or at least observe UTSFL Activism Team with “Choice” Chain or QA Project
      • UTSFL “Choice” Chain also a chance to observe education team members, debrief, and get a sense for their experience, confidence, and skill
      • QA Project also a good opportunity for dialogue, though difficult to monitor and assess performance of new recruits with one-on-one conversations and less TRTL presence
  5. Education Team workshop
    • when ready, two team members are hand-selected to give mock presentations
    • participation from whole education team:
      • test audience / focus group for new presenters
      • debrief to refine content and presenters
  6. Mentorship
    1. First, presentation shadowing (observing and debriefing with an experienced speaker)
    2. Then, giving presentations, with mentor observing and joining up front for Q&A
  7. Leadership
    • We can hand-pick a different team member to give the morning keynote at the SLL Conference each year
    • Our best and experienced presenters can mentor rookies