Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Classes
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Teacher notes
Learn how to speak with confidence in a debate
Student debating and public speaking resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 5 to 8 debating
What will your students learn?
Your students will:
explore strategies for improving manner
reflect on themselves as speakers
improvise with public speaking games
develop their persuasive speaking skills.
Syllabus outcomes
English K-10 Syllabus
Stage 3
EN3-1A: communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features.
EN3-2A: composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts.
EN3-7C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts.
EN3-9E: recognises, reflects on and assesses their strengths as a learner.
Stage 4
EN4-4B: makes effective language choices to creatively shape meaning with accuracy, clarity and coherence.
EN4-5C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information, ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts.
EN4-9E: uses, reflects on and assesses their individual and collaborative skills for learning.
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
Collection of student work
Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.
Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.
MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.
Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.
Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.
For further support on how to create these resources
Offline access
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Would you like to have your school promoted and your students work showcased as a result of engaging in this Creative Class?
Help us celebrate the fantastic work of NSW public school students by emailing photos or videos that you have permission to share and comments on how your students enjoyed the class to digital.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au.
Please ensure you include the creative class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media pages and on our website.
Teacher feedback
Third-party content attributions
English K-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2012, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.