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NotAFactsheet: Sampling

If there was a competition for the least-loved part of the Sociology Specification it’s a fair bet that sampling would be somewhere off in the far distance, casually looking over its shoulder and taunting its competitors as it limped home in first place. Loathe it or loathe it, however, you just can’t ignore sampling when […]

GCSE Psychology Connecting Walls

If you’re looking for something a little different to encourage your GCSE students to revise, his collection of Psychology Connecting Walls might be just the ticket. The basic mechanics of the quiz are very simple: each wall has 16 elements that can be grouped into 4 different categories. Once all 4 categories have been correctly […]

Connecting Walls Collection

CBSC Sociology has been busy creating and posting a huge number of revision Connecting Walls on Twitter and, in the spirit of “pinching other people’s stuff and sharing it with a wider audience”, I’ve pulled all their tweets together into one handy blog post for your – and your students’ – greater convenience. So, if […]

Connecting Revision Too

If you’ve seen the previous post on Connecting Revision you may have tried the Family Connecting Wall created by Steve Bishop (and maybe even been inspired to think about creating and sharing your own?). He’s now created a new Wall to add to your revising pleasure and this time it’s on Crime and Deviance. As ever […]

NotAFactsheet: Research Ethics

This NotAFactsheet on Research Ethics is a slight departure from previous NotAFactsheets in that it comes in two flavours: 1. The normal “text with box-outs and pictures-if-you’re-lucky” version. 2. An experimental version with an added bit of embedded video (click-the-pic-to-play). Although not ideal, the video is in Flash (.flv) format for reasons that are much […]

Connecting Revision

A “Connecting Wall” grid featured in the British Sociological Association’s Sociology Teacher magazine. If you’re familiar with the BBC Quiz show “Only Connect” you’ll know that one of the most popular elements is the “Connecting Wall” where a team of 3 players is presented with a “wall” containing 16 elements that can be grouped into […]

Sociology Shortcuts: NotAFactsheets

Over the past few weeks I’ve published a small selection of Curriculum Press Sociology Factsheets and the response to these set me thinking about creating some of my own, using a similar format – although I’ve decided not to call what I’ve produced “Factsheets”, mainly because they aren’t. Anyway, I posted my first attempt at a […]

A Few More Psychology Factsheets

In a previous post I shared some examples of Curriculum Press Factsheets I’d found on my travels and this post offers a few more examples that might inspire you (and your students) to think about making your own… Attachment Autism Classical Conditioning Eyewitness Testimony Factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony

Sociology ShortCuts F’sheet

I’ve posted a couple of times about the Sociology Factsheets produced by Curriculum Press – particularly about how it might be an idea for teachers to get their students to make their own versions as both a revision aid and teaching resource for future sociology students – and I thought it might be interesting to […]

Updating Crime & Deviance

Day Workshop with renowned sociologist and film-maker, Dr Steve Taylor Strain, Labelling, Realism etc. are still important because they underpin a lot of research in the contemporary study of Crime and Deviance. But supposing your students could demonstrate this with new concepts & 21st. Century research examples? This Workshop consolidates the key theories and concepts […]

PLC: Electronic Template

While paper-based PLCs are useful, electronic PLCs bring a new dimension to the teaching table in a couple of ways: Firstly, they allow students to type / cut-and-paste content directly into their PLC. You can, for example, provide a list of required content in text format for your students at relevant points in the course […]

Personal Learning Checklist Template

Personal Learning Checklists (PLCs) are a simple and effective tool for identifying the extent to which your students feel confident they have grasped the key course content you have defined for them. Although the basic idea has been around in various forms for a number of years, if you’re not familiar with it, PLCs involve: […]

A-Level Revision: Education

As an addendum to the Revision Booklets post, here’s one I missed earlier – an extensive revision booklet for AS Education produced by Greenhead College. As you might expect from a Sociology department consistently ranked as outstanding by Ofsted their approach is: Thorough – the booklet includes a comprehensive set of revision notes. Informative – […]

GCSE Revision Resources

While it’s probably fair to say that teacher-created GCSE revision resources are a bit thin on the ground (and take a bit of finding), there are useful resources “out there” if you’re prepared to do a lot of searching. To save you the time and trouble, here’s some I found earlier (the quality’s a bit […]