Event Information 6 PD hrs per day
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THURSDAY MARCH 15TH, 2012
How to Teach Debating Skills Effectively and Engagingly
- How to set up a supportive environment for debating skill acquisition
- How to get across the essentials of debating
- Matter issues: Strategies for topic analysis/Structures to organise a team case
- Ensuring Method points are maximised by building them into the speeches
- Teaching Manner effectively - targeted and engaging strategies to lift students' performance in their presentations
- How to teach advanced persuasive writing and delivery techniques
- Advanced debating tactics you should know
- Adjudication and how to maximise your students' appeal to adjudicators
Session 1 - The Debating Classroom - the essentials of Debating (Method) and Matter issues
- Speakers' Roles, Matter, Method and Manner
- Structuring the Debate, the speech and the team case
- Advanced Matter and method techniques - Great Matter resources
Session 2 - Delivering the Speech to win the debate - Manner
- Teaching students to Speak with Power: delivery skills workshops
- Constructing and delivering a Persuasive Speech
- Advanced Manner teaching strategies
Session 3 - The Winning Team - putting it all together
- How to create the most effective team
- How to teach advanced speech writing skills - standing out from the rest
- Effective strategies to teach Rebuttal skills - using the sniper rifle not the shotgun
- Advanced debating tactics
FRIDAY MARCH 16TH, 2012
How to Teach Public Speaking and Leadership Skills Effectively and Engagingly
- How to set up a supportive environment for oral skill acquisition
- Activities that will show you Impromptu speaking isn't just making it up on the spot
- Key strategies for teaching effective speech writing
- Workshops on teaching delivery techniques
- How to ensure students understand and use delivery skills to the max
- Model speech delivery
- Active participation and role plays to give you the confidence to deliver exciting lessons
- Barriers to confidence and how to break them
- How to teach your students to sound leaders
Session 1 - The Public Speaking Classroom and building in Leadership
- Roles, Impromptu speaking, basic speech writing tips, achieving Quality and mentoring
Session 2 - Teaching Delivery Skills
- How to have your students Speaking with Power and Sounding like Leaders
Session 3 - How to have your students excel at the highest level and to become a role model
- Leadership and speaking: Exam Orals, the Plain English Speaking Awards and
Advanced Speech writing
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About the Presenter
Ron Thomas is Director and Facilitator for 'Speak with Power', delivering training
programs across the state in Orals, Debating and Public Speaking to both Secondary and
Primary students. He has extensive adult training experience. He has worked as a corporate trainer delivering programs for the VECCI and the ASTF. He has twice coached teams to the Debating Association of Victoria Grand Final and was Co-Founder of the Hills Debating Group. He has the Highest Level International Toastmaster Training; 20 years Year 12 English, Literature and Drama teaching experience; and is part time Gifted and Talented Students Coordinator and Literature Teacher at a secondary college. |
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