April Holiday Debating Camp for Y7-9 - 9:30am-2pm

ID:	C487
Delivery:	Face to face
Time:	Daily 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Fee:	AU$450
Teacher:	Miss Ava B.

2025 April Holiday Debating Camp

Monday

Morning (2 hours)

• Brief introduction: introducing the teacher, asking students about their debating experience, what they might like to focus on, what they’re unsure of
• Advanced structure of practical arguments, or, how to actually prove things: the different kinds of reasons, impacting, weighing
• Case writing, or, how to always come up with points: strategy and framing
• Practice case preparation altogether

Afternoon (2 hours)

• Practice debate (approx. 35 minutes prep time, 1hr debate time)
• Adjudication and feedback (general and individual one-on-one)

Tuesday

Monring (2 hours)

• Methods of rebuttal: diversifying techniques for disproving the opposition, and comprehensive structure of thematic rebuttal
• Practicing rebuttal activity
• Seminar on the intersection between ethical issues, social movements, and politics debates
• Practice case preparation altogether
• (Time permitting) Advanced analysis of stakeholders: rationality, decision-making, incentives, motivations, and characterisation
• (Time permitting) Case study application of characterisation in economics debates

Afternoon (2 hours)

• Practice debate (approx. 35 minutes prep time, 1hr debate time)
• Adjudication and feedback (general and individual one-on-one)

Wednesday

Monring(2 hours)

• Briefly reviewing progress: active recall
• Final practice debate (approx. 35 minutes prep time, 1hr debate time)
• Adjudication and feedback (general and individual one-on-one)

*** 30 minutes break between 11:30am-12pm on 21/04 and 22/04, food will be supplied during the break***