{"id":18648,"date":"2015-10-01T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/?p=681"},"modified":"2015-10-01T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T23:00:14","slug":"english-speaking-board-pioneers-new-debating-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/english-speaking-board-pioneers-new-debating-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"English Speaking Board pioneers new Debating qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-682\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/web\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Debating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-682 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/web\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Debating-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Improve debating skills with ESB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>English Speaking Board (International) Ltd. has produced the first ever accredited qualification in debating.<\/p>\n<p>Awards in Debating are aimed at 10 to 18-year-olds and are designed to give youngsters an opportunity to improve their debating skills and endorse their talent for public speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Coates, ESB&#8217;s Speech Business Development Advisor, who developed the suite of qualifications in conjunction with schools, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are very proud to be the first awarding organisation to offer a qualification in this essential expertise. It&#8217;s an excellent time to introduce the qualification as there&#8217;s such an emphasis on debate in the National Curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Debating is an essential life skill and a fantastic aid to developing soft skills such as critical thinking, teamwork and leadership. We are excited to have developed a qualification suitable for candidates working at a variety of different levels in a diversity of educational contexts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The candidates will be examined in groups of eight: four in favour of the motion and four against. As with all of ESB&#8217;s Speaking and Listening assessments, the Awards in Debating will be assessed externally.\u00a0 Experienced assessors will take into account content, style, structure, listening and response.<\/p>\n<p>ESB worked in conjunction with various education centres to create the Awards in Debating including Ibstock Place School in Roehampton.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Darlington, English teacher at Ibstock Place said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ESB&#8217;s Awards in Debating are a groundbreaking set of qualifications. I would highly recommend them to any school looking to increase attainment in speaking and listening and to boost pupils&#8217; confidence in public speaking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to find out more about ESB&#8217;s Awards in Debating then have a look at the syllabuses at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/esbuk.org\/qualifications\/award-in-debating-level-1\">Level 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/esbuk.org\/qualifications\/award-in-debating-level-2\">Level 2<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/esbuk.org\/qualifications\/award-in-debating-level-3\">Level 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Speaking Board (International) Ltd. has produced the first ever accredited qualification in debating. Awards in Debating are aimed at 10 to 18-year-olds and are designed to give youngsters an opportunity to improve their debating skills and endorse their talent for public speaking. Alison Coates, ESB&#8217;s Speech Business Development Advisor, who developed the suite of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-oracy","category-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}