When All’s SED and Done: Write. Review. Revise

Reviewing and revising student work at GCSE or A-level is a crucial part of the teaching and learning process and one way to encourage this

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Sex and Gender: A Short Film

If you’re into flipped teaching (or even if you’re not) and want a relatively short (around 15-minute) video-introduction to sex and gender this Ted-Talk on

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Raised Without Gender

Culture and Identity is an important part of the a-level sociology specification for a number of Boards and this 30-minute film might be a good

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Learning Mats: A Generic Version

The Learning Maps we’ve previously posted have rightly proven popular, both because of their quality and because they meet a need for tools that help

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Discovering Sociology and Psychology

If you’re an a-level sociology or psychology teacher / student an obvious first-port-of-call for inspiration and resources, aside from the Exam Board, is likely to

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The Sociological Detectives: We Have A Situation…

This PowerPoint Presentation brings together a couple of ideas, one of which – the idea of “students playing the role of detectives” I’ve previously explored

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ShortCuts to Sociology: Organised Crime

A few years ago we did some interviews for a film on organised crime that, for one reason or another (money, probably), didn’t get made

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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

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Research Methods: Consuming Passions?

Some time ago I was asked by a publisher (who shall remain nameless because I’ve mercifully forgotten their actual name) to run an introductory computing

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Psychology: Teacher Guides

The third – and final – OCR A-level Psychology offering complements the two previous posts on Lesson Elements and Delivery Guides in the shape of

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