As well as holding public debates, NAD provides free training workshops on debating skills for students and youth.<\/p>\n
The aim of the workshops is to\u00a0develop skills needed for debating, holding people to account and questioning. They focus on using facts and research to ask challenging questions (to hold people to account) and to prepare arguments and debates.<\/p>\n
The workshops are ideal for debaters but are also suitable for non-debaters as the skills can be used anywhere.<\/p>\n
The information provided in those workshops is now available to everyone in this section \u2013 you can find the information and watch some video clips that give examples.<\/p>\n
NAD offers three main workshops with the aim of building debating and question asking skills.<\/p>\n
Introduction to Debating: <\/strong>This workshops examines the importance of free speech and debating and covers some basic question asking skills – how to ask good questions to try to get answers.<\/p>\n Question Asking:<\/strong> This workshop will build on skills developed in\u00a0Introduction to Debating<\/em>. It will focus in more depth on the importance of fact-based question-asking and the role of research. This workshop will be more interactive, with everyone attending expected to take part. They will be given a fact sheet on a topic and will to prepare and ask a question. Everyone will be given constructive feedback with the aim of improving the effectiveness of question asking.<\/p>\n Research and Topic Development:<\/strong> How do you start organising your arguments?\u00a0 This workshop will focus on how to develop arguments and questions starting with topic and angle selection. It will also focus on research skills and utilising research to prepare questions and debates.<\/p>\n Workshop duration: <\/strong>Workshops are usually 2 hours in duration, but can be modified to suit individual needs.<\/p>\n Workshop numbers:<\/strong> Ideally, workshops should have around 20 people. We recommend around 20 people for the Question Asking workshop as everyone needs to ask their questions.<\/p>\n NAD workshops are free but limited. Our priority is to provide workshop for young debaters and students.<\/p>\n We will let you know where the next workshops will be and if you are in the area and interested, please let us know.<\/p>\n If you can\u2019t join a workshop we can still offer you some useful information here on this website. Find out more about question asking skills and research here.<\/p>\n Amman, Jordan- 28-30 September, 2015<\/p>\n West Bank- 3-8 October 2015<\/p>\nHow to join workshops<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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