How To Prepare Your Students for Their First Conference?
As a school teacher, the task of preparing your delegation for their first Model United Nations (MUN) conference can be daunting, because of the vast differences in experience levels in domains of leadership or public speaking, or in many cases, because delegates attend their first ever conference. While some delegates may be transitioning from leadership roles in the school’s Student’s Council or in debates into MUN, others may be just trying out public speaking for the first time. In addition, the difference in the organisational structure of the MUN clubs mean that this could be newly-established and a young club which had previously done only practice simulations, or a ragtag bunch of students who just registered for their conference following an indication of interest, perhaps after a history lecture. With these in mind, what can teachers do to adequately prepare students for their first conference?
