A series of lessons (about 3-6 hours of classroom teaching, 44 slides) with engaging exam-oriented tasks you can easily tailor to suit the needs of your particular group, describing (and focusing on both AO1 and AO2/3): The Functionalist Perspective, Neoliberal / the New Right perspective on education as well as The Marxist View. Extension tasks have been included, this series of lessons should work fine with any major exam board. Plenaries and example questions provided. Links to 3 short video clips (about 1.5-3 minutes each) included, plus a link to an AQA pdf booklet (the booklet is available for free - you can use it to introduce your learning objectives/see your students’ progress throughout your lessons even if your SoW is not AQA-based), it can be taught with any AS/A-level Sociology textbook. The material has been recently tested in the classroom and should save you hours of your own preparation time!

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One of the TES reviewers wrote about its earlier, free version: This is a great resource - with really thought provoking material that will definitely get the students talking and help them to understand the different perspectives in UK today. Thank you SO much! This updated version (July 2023) is suitable for KS3-KS5 students, covering subjects such as Citizenship, Sociology, Government and Politics, and possibly History (Communism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy and Thatcherism). It includes comprehensive coverage of main perspectives, a wide range of activities that can be very easily differentiated, as well as some valuable multimedia links. If you need more details, feel free to contact me!

Welfare State, New Right, New Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May, Marxism, British Politics 1945-2018. Brainstorming will help you differentiate - simply mix the more able/G&T with the less able students and ask them to work in groups. Add your exam Qs to the mix and you can easily turn it into 3-5 lessons! The resource has been updated again (May2018) and includes a lot of extremely helpful information now - I hope you’ll find it useful - any comments are welcome! I tried to avoid being too biased… :-) Enjoy! :-)