Schools’ Competition Registrations Close
Entries for the Schools' Competition close today. Please be sure to register online at https://www.debatingsa.com.au/enter
Entries for the Schools' Competition close today. Please be sure to register online at https://www.debatingsa.com.au/enter
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 …
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 …
This training is for adjudicators seeking to adjudicate Year 10 and Senior division (Years 11 and 12) debates. Participants must have already undertaken Primary School Adjudicator Training and Year 8/9 Adjudicator Training.
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.
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 …
This is an introductory session to adjudicating to be followed by further training in 2023. This session is aimed at beginner adjudicators who will adjudicate Primary School debates for Years 5, and 7. Training is open to anyone of Year 11/12 school age or older. RSVP via the details above.