These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
This is a GCSE booster session for the more able students that will take approximately 2 1/2 hours to deliver (2 if some of the work is given as flip learning - i.e the first tasks). It is a full powerpoint that uses all of the techniques that AQA are suggesting will help candidates to get to the 8s and 9s. It is set up, ready to be delivered and the resource booklet is also included at the end of the ppt.
Aswith all of my sessions, tasks and instructions are clear and embedded so that it can be delivered as it stands.
This is the first in a series of booster sessions that is targeting the more able and the others will rely on the techniques shown in this one for them to be successful.
The session delivers exam technique and how to write the exam style question - it does not reteach content at all. There are WAGOLLs throughout an the focus is on a critical style of writing, references and what subject terminology is. This session could also be adapted to train teachers who are teaching top sets in GCSE Lit.
Success Criteria:
To know the criteria for level 6 responses (Grade 8 and 9).
To understand what ‘going in and out’ of the extract means.
To know how to analyse key words / phrases to Grade 8 / 9 standard.
To understand the difference between quotes and references.
To understand what subject terminology is.
To better understand what a critical writing style is.
This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded to support the reading of Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - this one is a reading assessment based on the text for level 3/4 readers.
This is a ppt. of 42 original slides that have been created to train drama teachers on the new section C of the AQA Drama GCSE. The materials, although used to train teachers were created so that they could be used to actually teach so, what you have in this ppt is a series of tasks that can be delivered to students so that they have a full overview of the scheme of assessment for the whole course, what the exam looks like, how it is marked and then how to tackle the section C question. There is a break down of the mark scheme and a suggested structure for how to answer with example answers that can be marked and used as a template. It would take approx. 3 to 4 lessons to teach to students.
This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. I've uploaded lots of lessons and some that follow on from each other if you would like to use them all. Each has the same start to the title for ease of finding. This lesson covers the context of the novel.
This is one of several revision lessons that I created for the novel, in readiness for the AQA lit exam last summer. This one covers the characetr of Curley.
This is one of several lessons that I have uploaded to support the reading of Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - this one has Lesson objectives of:
To identify aspects of Maria’s and Bruno’s father’s character.
To use my opinion to inform my writing.
This is a full powerpoint with resources at the back of it, designed to help someone to lead a twilight session (approximately 1 1/2hrs to 2hrs) on why we need to differentiate and ideas of how it can be done.
The session is interactive with little exercises for the teachers to take art in s that they can consider the impact of the structures for differentiating in their own classrooms.
Training covers differentiation for different types of learners as well as ability.
If you're buying this, you will need to have some knowledge of differentiation to deliver it, so that you can deconstruct the activities after you have tried them with the trainees.
This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. I've uploaded lots of lessons and some that follow on from each other if you would like to use them all. Each has the same start to the title for ease of finding. This lesson covers the skill of inference and using it in relation to the novel.
This is one of the many lessons and resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Macbeth to year 7s working at level 4/5 in English. It's based on an end result of old SATs style type question that can be APP'd. This resource is a cloze exercise for the plot.
This is one of a few lessons that I've uploaded on BITSP - this one is to support the reading of chapters 5 & 6. Lesson Objectives:
To explore the difference between good, bad and evil.
To analyse the impact of violence and evil in the novel.
This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. I've uploaded lots of lessons and some that follow on from each other if you would like to use them all. Each has the same start to the title for ease of finding. This lesson covers the books and ideas in the blurb.
This is a series of lessons to help prepare students for the AQA Lit question on An Inspector Calls (new spec 2017 exam). All lessons presume that the play has been read and studied and these are purely to help revise key themes and to detail to students exactly how they need to write a response - pitched at that is from Grade 4 to Grade 9 - there are two sets of lessons and they are differentiated.
The first ppt. picks out key themes and encourages a framework for students to revise the key themes in the play on their own or by themselves. i.e they skim read looking for quotes.
The other ppt.s (differentiated versions - one is 4-7; the other is 5-9) show students how to write effectively about the play whilst hitting the mark scheme. Students are given copies of the generic AQA mark scheme that they break down and use to help them to understand how to succeed. They also mark sample answers / WAGOLLs for success against the markscheme to help their understanding of how to write their own.
There are example answers - never seen before, created by me with a formula for how to write responses to highest grades.
Best to teach the Revision lesson, followed by the TEE lesson, then let students answer the exam style question. In the next two lessons, then reteach HOW to shape and answer and introduce MAD (Make a Difference) Time - showing and reminding students exactly what they should have done. Also included is a really useful quote sheet for AIC to help students to learn key quotes.
This is a 47 slide powerpoint that breaks down the whole of the reading section for AQA GCSE Language Paper 2 section A, and guides students through a series of activities that show them how to tackle to the paper. It can be used for a revision booster session before the exam or taken apart and split into several lessons. All resources are at the end of the ppt. This is pitched to help students to move to Grade 4/5 criteria.
This is a full unit of work, that consists of 15 lesson powerpoints, complete with all resources. Created initially with new questions for 1,2,and 3 that have never been seen elsewhere (not SAMs) and then utilising the Edexcel SAMs, showing students how to attempt each question, allowing them to practise and using mark schemes for peer / self evaluation.
There are useful techniques provided for each and every question, including time management. The unit has been taught successfully and adapted accordingly. Obviously any teacher will need to adapt lessons in line with what they manage to cover in any given lesson but each ppt. is designed for a full one hour lesson.
All of the questions are fully covered and deconstructed so that the teacher can guide students through what they need to do - including the writing section. After this unit, students will be fully prepared to attempt a full paper so that you can diagnose areas for development.
This is a Key Stage 3 Writing scheme of work that consists of 8 full lesson PowerPoint's and culminates in a writing assessment that mirrors that AQA Language Writer's Viewpoint question for the new specification.
Each lesson uses reading skills to help pupils to investigate a variety of texts and to build up an information bank on the topic of the question - which is about teenagers.
There are no references to levels / assessment within this scheme so any teacher can add their own assessment model or mark with the AQA Exam criteria.
