New AQA Specification 9-1. Lesson looking at how internal and external factors plus social class affect the educational achievement of working class children

Aimed at AQA but suitable for WJEC. Covers Research Methods, Family and Education

New AQA Specification 9-1. Lesson looking at how internal factors affect educational achievement. Covering School ethos, hidden curriculum, streaming/setting/mixed ability, labelling/self-fulfilling prophecy and subcultures including Paul Willis Learning to labour case study.

New AQA Specification 9-1. Lesson looking at how external factors affect educational achievement. Covering Nature Vs Nurture, socialisation, material deprivation, parent’s attitude, language, job market and education policies.

New AQA Specification 9-1. Lesson looking at how we measure educational success in the UK. Looking at the 1988 Education Reform Act, SATS, GCSEs, Progress 8 and A-Levels.

New Spec 9-1. Can be one lesson if you don’t want to use the Cutting Edge documentary.

My old specification lesson resources for the families unit. They are a great set of resources that I am tweaking and adapting for the new spec, but a (cheap) starting point for non-specialists/trainees.

These are my old AQA specification resources. They still cover all of the same content, and have assessments, group activities planned into them. So lots of lesson ideas. I am in the middle of tweaking and adapting these to the new specification, but these lessons are a great starting point for a non-specialist (and cheap!)

AQA New Specification 9-1- Lesson 6- Looking at deschooling, home-schooling and Summerhill School.

AQA New Specification 9-1- Lesson5 School Diversity. I used this lesson as an opportunity to get the students to work in groups to produce either a presentation on sugar paper, a power point presentation or a presentation using the Ipads. It worked really well and I actually got some great display material from it. Alternatively it’s great as a homework activity.

AQA New Specification 9-1- Lesson 4- Looking at the first education act, right the way through to the Butler Act and the Tripartite System

AQA New Specification 9-1- Lesson 3- Consolidation looking at Functionalist, Marxist and Feminist Perspectives. Ideal for Y11 revision, or to leave as cover. My group needed this as they struggled with the key perspectives.

AQA New Specification 9-1- Lesson 2- The Marxist Perspective.

AQA New Specification 9-1- Lesson 1- The Functionalist Perspective.