MAD TRAINING SERVICES

MAD offers a fantastic range of in-house training services. Our best debaters and adjudicators can visit your school and provide training which is customised to the specific needs of your students.

The following is a list of training packages which MAD offers. We would love to work with you to design a program which suits your specific needs.

TRAINING PACKAGES

Debating Skills Seminar - Beginners

This seminar is tailored for Years 7-9 students and Years 10-12 students who have had little or no prior debating experience. The seminar covers basic concepts essential for debating in the DAV Schools Competition including: topic definitions, speaker roles, preparation, research and rebuttal.

What: 2 hour seminar.

Cost: $300 or $11/student for groups over 15 students.

Debating Skills Seminar - Intermediate

The seminar is tailored for Years 10-12 students with prior DAV Schools Competition experience. The seminar covers skills relating to Secret Topic debates, and our trainers reveal the secret to winning secret topic debates.

What: 2 hour seminar.

Cost: $300 or $11/student for groups over 15 students.

Debate Preparations

Our trainers are available to help teams prepare their topics in the DAV Schools Competition. Give your teams that winning edge!

What:one hour interactive session per topic.

Cost: $55 per topic

These sessions are most productive when student-trainer ratios are kept low. If you wish our trainers to work with more than three teams, please inform us on booking so that we can discuss with you how best to meet your needs.

Adjudication

We can supply any number of DAV accredited adjudicators to assist in providing quality feedback and informed decisions in inter-house or inter-school debating competitions.

Cost: $55 per adjudicator, per debate.

Exhibition Debates

Our debaters will demonstrate a high quality debate on an issue that is pertinent to your students' studies, or we can organise trainers to debate with students to provide them with the ultimate debating training!

Cost: Price negotiated upon application.