Presentation
Details the Activity/Program
- Activity Name
- InterBrains Debate Competition
- Activity Dates
- 9th April 2021
- Contents of the activity
- Education : Is ODL gives advantages or disadvantages to students?
- Social : Curfew is good at restraining social problems from rampant
- Health : Vaping should be banned
- Environment : Should logging be stopped?
- Goals and objectives
- To enhance thinking skills, communication skills and leadership skills among graduates
- Target participants
- UTM Students
- Invited guests or presenters
- UTM students (presenters)
- Senior lecturers (guests/judges)
- Financial statement
- Program Income
- Program Expenditure
Financial Statement's Table
Conclusion
- Students can gain higher confidence level especially in communication
- Students will be able to increase their skill in communication exponentially after the debate.
- The participants can gain knowledge and experience by joining the debate session.
- Students can make wiser decisions and evaluate things correctly with the thinking skills they developed in the debate sessions.
- Students will be able to lead team members and work in a team successfully with the leadership skills they obtained during debate.
Introduction
Debate program that we proposed was to enhance UTM graduate attributes among students. Basically, the purpose of our program is to make UTM students boost their confidence when communicating with others. Other than that, with debate students also can have the ability to think critically during the debate session. The objective of our program is to generate effective critical thinking with the issues in a given topic. Next, students can meet and interact with students from other faculty in the context of a social and intellectual activity. Other than that, to realize the simultaneous opportunities for leadership and group participation and last to participate effectively in situations where decisions must be made.
The Importance of InteBrains Debate Competition that improved the graduate attributes of UTM Students
- Promotes thinking skills and developing effective speech composition and delivery.
- Improving higher-order and critical thinking skills and the ability to organize thoughts.
- Encouraging leadership and teamwork skills among students
- Increase confidence and self-esteem through communication skills.
Lack of Graduate Success Attribute among UTM Students
- Thinking Skills
- students has lack of manners when starting conversations (require to think before talk)
- Students don’t have the ability to examine the implications and consequences of a belief or action before doing something.
- Communication Skills
- There are still a lot of students that are afraid to talk in front of the class of or even in their group discussion. Students need to enhance these skills because it is very useful especially during their work phase.
- Some students choose not to ask anything about their topic that they do not understand because they are scared to talk. This will lead them to not have any courage or confidence.
- Leadership Skills
- Students are socially awkward when doing things in a team.
- Students don’t know how to kickstart a group work.
- Students are socially awkward when doing things in a team.
Activity Schedule
- 11.15 - Teams arrive in school hall and are registered
- 11.30 - arrival of senior lecturers and the higher ups
- 12.45 - first debate is announced
- 1.45 - second debate is announced
- 2.45 - Lunch break
- 3.45 - third debate is announced
- 4.45 -fourth debate is announced
- 5.45 - Refreshment break
- 6.00 - Grand final. Top two teams debate in front of everyone in the school hall.
- 6.45 – Winners announced, certificates given to the top 5 speakers (from first two debates, not just grand final)
- 7pm – Everyone offsite/dismiss
Monitoring and evaluation
- Monitoring
- Time limit
- Language
- Evaluating
- The time consumed for each individual point.
- Body language.
- Validation of points