Kate Shulgina

She serves as a Lead Teacher and Curriculum Developer for prestigious international schools and institutions in Shanghai (including YKPAO, BISS, NACIS, YCIS, HQIS) and kindergartens, covering diverse grade levels and teaching scenarios. As a Master’s degree holder from Ural Federal University, she excels at integrating scientific logical frameworks with theatrical expressive techniques to systematically build students’ debate argument structure, public speaking charisma, and on-stage confidence helping numerous students (even those with no prior debate/speaking training) master core skills in logical persuasion and confident communication.

Her professional achievements are deeply rooted in international education: the English debate & public speaking curricula she developed are widely adopted by top Shanghai international schools (e.g., BISS, NACIS, YCIS). Under her guidance, students have won awards in school level debate tournaments and public speaking contests (such as  “Best Speaker” and “Top Debater” honors at annual campus events). As a coach for school debate clubs, her student teams received 95% positive feedback from schools and parents for their tight logical arguments and engaging speaking styles.

Kate adheres to the “structured creativity stimulation” teaching philosophy: she first builds clear thinking frameworks (e.g., claim-evidence-reasoning, a core logic model for debate) for students, then ignites their passion for expression through games, role-plays and scenario simulations. She excels at two key skill breakthroughs for debate & speaking:

1) Turning scattered ideas into well-organized, persuasive debate arguments (with clear viewpoints, supporting reasons and concrete examples);

2) Helping students overcome stage anxiety to build compelling on-stage presence (via breath control, voice modulation and body language training).

Her typical success cases include: guiding a shy 7-year-old student to confidently deliver a 3-minute speech in the class debate club within one semester; helping a disorganized student team optimize their debate argument structure and win top scores in a school debate tournament.