Anticipation Guides

Although Anticipation Guides are similar to pre-questioning in both form and purpose – they encourage much the same kinds of skills – there are significant differences between the two approaches. Where pre-questioning asks students to predict the answers to a set of questions they receive before being exposed to a lecture, video or reading, Anticipation […]

Creative Commentaries: What Were You Thinking?

A simple but effective tool to help you understand your students’ thought processes when writing extended pieces of work.

Collections 3 | Simulations

All of the Sims on the site handily gathered together in one place.

Collections 2 | Revision

This latest Collection gathers all our Revsion process posts into one handy place.

Learning Mat: Paragraph Practice

A Learning Mat designed to help students practice low-stakes paragraph writing in any subject that involves any kind of extended writing.

Collections 1 | Learning Mats

A Collection of Learning Mat posts that makes it easier for you to find whatever it is you may be looking for (as long as, in this instance, it’s some variation of Learning Mats).

The Dead Grandmother Problem | 2: Some Lessons

A few years ago (4 to be precise) I did a post on Mike Adams’ “Dead Grandmother Problem” and I’ve finally got around to updating it with some Methods-related suggestions about how you could use “The Problem” in the classroom.

Teaching Sociological Perspectives | 1: Scenario Setting

Using illusions, analogies and scenarios as a way of teaching sociological perspectives.

More Sociology Summer Transition Resources | 2

Part 2 of a range of fairly up-to-date transition materials that might both inspire and save you a bit of time and effort.

More Sociology Summer Transition Resources | 1

It’s been a couple of years since I last posted any Sociology Transition materials (work set for students to complete over the summer holiday to ease the transition between GCSE and A-level or Year 12 and Year 13) so I thought it might be useful to update the list with some more-recent materials culled from the labours of hard-working Sociology teachers.