This is a story I wrote for my students after the mock exam revealed a real confusion about the theories. Students took the roles of the different theories personified in the story and acted it out. I then got them to make a mind map for homework and re-tested them the next week. I found a significant improvement.

This mat is double-sided and is designed to be laminated and put on desks during lessons. It has sentence starters, common spelling errors and word suggestions on one side and key terms for the biological and cognitive approaches on the other as these seem to be the ones students struggle with the most. Designed for Btec Psychology but can be edited for any subject. Criminology and A Level Psychology mats to be uploaded in 2022.

This Rubric will allow those using Microsoft Teams to speed up their marking of the 8 hour controlled assessment Unit 3 Crime Scene to Court Room in the WJEC Criminology specification. First convert back into a csv. file. (TES does not accept csv.files so this is a PDF) Create a Teams Class for your assignment and make one of your colleagues the student. Secondly you can add optional other colleagues as owners to the team and they can view you marking for standardisation (optional). Next create assignments for each of your students and title the assignment with their name. Now you need to click on ‘Add Rubric’ and upload this document as a csv.file. Once you have done this for the first student you should find it in your stored rubrics thereafter. At this point you can edit any of the statements to suit yourself. Once you are happy with it click ‘attach’. Finally upload your student’s work from wherever your school or college has stored it by going into ‘take action in student view’. Now you can ‘assign’ ready to mark. This takes a little while for all of your classes if you have many but the investment in time at this point is worth it! In the marking stage you click on the body of the rubric as you read through the student’s work and click on which mark band and which comment you find appropriate. There is still the option for you to make further comments if you wish in the feedback box. This is also where you should write the number you are giving for each AC. I have my mark book open in a separate tab and fill this in also then cross reference the total at the end to be sure they match. If you click on the right hand arrow on the rubric it opens it up into full screen if you wish. Once you have scrolled through using the arrow and marked all sections you then click ‘done’ and return. (This is returning the document to your colleague.)

This Rubric will allow those using Microsoft Teams to speed up their marking of the 8 hour controlled assessment Unit 1 Changing Awareness of Crime in the WJEC Criminology specification. First convert back into a csv. file. (TES does not accept csv.files so this is a PDF) Create a Teams Class for your assignment and make one of your colleagues the student. Secondly you can add optional other colleagues as owners to the team and they can view you marking for standardisation (optional). Next create assignments for each of your students and title the assignment with their name. Now you need to click on ‘Add Rubric’ and upload this document as a csv.file. Once you have done this for the first student you should find it in your stored rubrics thereafter. At this point you can edit any of the statements to suit yourself. Once you are happy with it click ‘attach’. Finally upload your student’s work from wherever your school or college has stored it by going into ‘take action in student view’. Now you can ‘assign’ ready to mark. This takes a little while for all of your classes if you have many but the investment in time at this point is worth it! In the marking stage you click on the body of the rubric as you read through the student’s work and click on which mark band and which comment you find appropriate. There is still the option for you to make further comments if you wish in the feedback box. This is also where you should write the number you are giving for each AC. I have my mark book open in a separate tab and fill this in also then cross reference the total at the end to be sure they match. If you click on the right hand arrow on the rubric it opens it up into full screen if you wish. Once you have scrolled through using the arrow and marked all sections you then click ‘done’ and return. (This is returning the document to your colleague.)