Now it is time to share your classroom country's proposal on this issue with the rest of our United Nation's Assembly. Before you can get to this point, your classroom must decide on what position it is going to ask its representative to the General Assembly to take. Each country only gets one vote. How you arrive at your classroom country's position is up to the classroom teacher. You can mirror the way it is done in the actual United Nations or else you can use a more democratic means and get students to debate the issue within the classroom. The choice is actually dependent on the Learning Objective chosen by the teacher.
When writing resolutions for a Model UN simulation, a very tightly controlled format is used. As we prepare for this Beta Test, we are not sure what age levels will be most interested. For that reason, we will be very forgiving relative to the format that resolutions take. If you would like some ideas about how to write a resolution, go to our resolutions link which outlines the procedures when writing for a high school level simulation.
In the end, the classroom ambassador to the Electronic United Nations will formally present his/her country's proposal for solution. Through discussion groups, the classroom countries will have a chance to read and respond to these proposals. If ambassadors wish, they can correspond directly with other countries. Those with similar proposals can enter into private discussions to see if a compromise proposal can be reached that will satisfy larger numbers of classroom countries and assure the passage of the measure they support. (This is real, hands-on negotiations and politics, that require many real-life skills.)
