High School Debating Workshop (1)
11-15th July (9:30am -12pm AEST)
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Year 7-11: Online Enrichment Workshop
Time & Location
11-15th July (9:30am -12pm AEST)
Online Event
About the Event
Workshop Summary:
Our online debating workshop is designed to challenge the thinking and articulation skills of gifted students as well as enriching their writing and speaking skills. This workshop is suitable for students who has an inquistive mind, enjoys logical discussions and wants to learn how to present ideas to others more effectively. It also provides an opportunity of like-minded students to engage with each other on topics of interests.
Some of the sample topics that may be discussed include:
- Tikotok is better than youtube
- The phenomenon of Rickrolling should be studied in music education in high schools.
- The media should be more vigorously regulated by the government
- Individualism creates a better world than collectivism
Schedule: Monday 11th - Friday 15th July, 9:30am-12pm
Students will attend online classes between 9:30am-12pm (AEST) each day for 1 full week. There is specific learning modules each day, cumulating in a debating competition on the final day.
Monday: Logical fallacy
Tuesday: Research skills and defining topics
Wednesday: Debate speech structure and writing
Thursday: Team work, Rebuttal, and Case strategy
Friday: Ultimate Debating Competition (parents, grandparents and friends are welcome to join as the audience).
The workshop will be led by Ms Wong, a high school English teacher in Sydney and a tutor and mentor for gifted students worldwide from countries including Australia, Hong Kong and the UK. Ms Wong is a member of Mensa and graduated with a Masters Degree in Gifted Education from UNSW with excellence. Debating is one of her personal interest and she has been involved in debating since an early age.
This workshop will be delivered by Zoom and students are expected to set up their own connection to Zoom.
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High School Debating Workshop
11-15th July (9:30am -12pm AEST)
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