This workshop is suitable for Year 5 to Year 9 students. According to Beyond Blue: “Resilient young people are better able to make sense of the world around them, build strong relationships, and seek out support when they experience difficulties.”1 In this workshop, we will provide young people with some …
Suitable for beginner debaters, the Learn to Debate seminar will guide participants through the fundamental aspects of debating, including: what is a debate? speaker roles and responsibilities, debate scoring, key aspects of argument, presentations and structure. The day will culminate in participants preparing and presenting a debate to one of …
Fallacies: Errors in reasoning Being able to recognise poor thinking in one’s own debate as well as the arguments of the opposition is a key skill in debating. Through the identification of logical fallacies, participants will be armed with this key tool to call out poor thinking in their opposition’s …