Overview of Training Events

Primary: Wed 30 Mar 2022, Secondary Wed 6 Apr 2022. Aimed at coaches for the Schools’ Competition this workshop will focus on the following topics: 1. Introduction to debating and expectations of students. 2. Guiding students to brainstorm and organise arguments. 3. Use of evidence and statistics. 4. Brief introduction…

Primary: Wed 29 Mar 2023, Secondary Wed 5 Apr 2023. Aimed at coaches for the Schools’ Competition this workshop will focus on the following topics: 1. Introduction to debating and expectations of students. 2. Guiding students to brainstorm and organise arguments. 3. Use of evidence and statistics. 4. Brief introduction…

Primary: Wed 29 Mar 2023, Secondary Wed 5 Apr 2023. Aimed at coaches for the Schools’ Competition this workshop will focus on the following topics: 1. Introduction to debating and expectations of students. 2. Guiding students to brainstorm and organise arguments. 3. Use of evidence and statistics. 4. Brief introduction…

Aimed at Primary School coaches for the Schools’ Competition this workshop will focus on the following topics: 1. Introduction to debating and expectations of students. 2. Guiding students to brainstorm and organise arguments. 3. Use of evidence and statistics. 4. Brief introduction to fallacies. 5. Rebuttal techniques for students. A…

Aimed at Secondary School coaches for the Schools’ Competition this workshop will focus on the following topics: 1. Introduction to debating and expectations of students. 2. Guiding students to brainstorm and organise arguments. 3. Use of evidence and statistics. 4. Brief introduction to fallacies. 5. Rebuttal techniques for students. A…

This seminar is aimed at debaters wanting to further their skills in: Interpretation of complex topics Inductive and deductive reasoning Argument formation This workshop is highly recommended for all debaters.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This workshop will guide participants through the process of preparing a short preparation debate, in the allocated 90 minutes. At the conclusion of the preparation time, students will have the opportunity to debate and/or discuss their prepared arguments with our team of expert adjudicators. It is strongly recommended that students…