Flipped Classroom Field Guide
If you’ve been toying with the idea of flipping – but haven’t yet decided whether or not it’s right for you – this field guide (and associated videos) might help. Flipped teaching / learning is one of those ideas that, in principle, should have some mileage for a-level teaching because of the way the course […]
The Sociological Detectives: DEA
In this sim students take the role of “sociological detectives” investigating the reasons for differential educational achievement. Broadly, the sim involves: identifying a range of theories that can be used to explain differential educational achievement across and within categories of class, gender and ethnicity. identifying and collecting evidence that can be used to test (support […]
Flipped Classrooms
The Flipped Classroom is something of a rarity in contemporary educational thinking and practice in that the concept is based on a reasonably-sound argument (at least as far as something like a-level study is concerned), namely that in an exam system designed to test a range of weighted skills (knowledge, understanding, application, evaluation…) it makes […]
Using Analogies in A-level Sociology
Analogies are a useful teaching tool in sociology for a number of reasons: They can help students to understand something complex and unfamiliar by using ideas that are relatively simple and familiar. They can be used to engage students in collaborative work, the outcome of which is an expansion of their knowledge and understanding through […]