How to Slay Your (Exam) Demons
I’m reliably informed (although, after a moment’s reflection, find it hard to actually believe) that someone called Sheena Hutchinson (no, me neither) once said that “Life is all about choices”. Which, all-things-considered, is one of the most profound things you’re ever likely to read (at least on this blog). Or maybe not. You pays your money… […]
Study Skills Resources
The Welsh Exam Board site seems to have undergone a rather drastic culling of it’s once-outstanding sociology resources – all I could find was a rather sad Flash movie on gender socialisation that will cease to function on January 1st 2021, some interesting and extensive Crime and Deviance resources that are definitely worth digging around […]
Cherry-Picking Revision
Cherry-Picking Revision is a simple Presentation based on an original idea by History teacher James Fitzgibbon. While the basic idea is much the same as his – getting students to identify key ideas they can “cherry-pick” to answer exam-type questions – I’ve converted it to PowerPoint and extended it slightly: 1. To make it a […]
Revising Perspectives
I’ve been trawling through some of the old ATSS material I seem to have collected and “stored” (oddly, enough, behind bookcases and stuffed towards the back of filing cabinets) over the years and came across this simple revision activity by Warren Kidd. I’ve adapted it very slightly from the original but in the main it’s […]
Five Things To Know About…
I’ve long been a fan / proponent of the “5 Things I Know” approach to teaching sociological perspectives – the idea that if a student can grasp 5 significant things about a perspective they can apply that knowledge to answer just about any “theory / perspective” question they may encounter in an exam. Vicki Woolven […]
Family and Household Revision Guide
This is an extensive PowerPoint Presentation I’ve picked-up from somewhere (who knows…), stored on a hard drive and rediscovered when looking for something else. So, no surprises there. It is, though, fairly recent (probably 2017) and reflects the content of the latest AQA Specification – which is a little more unusual. I’ve no-idea who put […]
More GCSE Sociology PLC’s
Following from the original GCSE Sociology Personal Learning Checklist post I’ve found a few more PLC’s for different exam boards. These are a combination of teacher-created PLCs and what appear to be some professionally-created efforts. Most follow the familiar “RAG” (Red, Amber, Green) format, or simple variations thereof, but I’ve included a few for the […]
Personal Learning Checklists: GCSE Sociology
Although I’ve previously posted about Personal Learning Checklists (PLCs) this was in the context of providing both a general explanation of how they are broadly designed to work and a basic template you could use to create PLCs for whatever course you happened to be teaching. In basic terms, PLCs can be useful for teachers […]
Lord of the Rings: Family Revision Quiz
This simple PowerPoint Quiz, created by Leanne Trinder, uses a Lord of the Rings theme around which to deliver 10 multiple-choice questions on various aspects of family life. Each question has 3 possible answers and, unusually for a PowerPoint quiz it’s very forgiving of incorrect answers – if you get a question wrong you can […]
One Pagers
The basic idea underpinning the concept of a “One Pager” is that it represents a one-page (no, really) response to something. Conventionally, given the concept’s origins in literature studies, this a piece of text. Somewhat less conventionally, in the context of sociology / psychology we can widen the definition of “text” to include just about […]