Having originally entered into teaching through Teach First, which I completed in a challenging London Borough with a personal grading of Outstanding, I have since worked as a KS3 coordinator and am now a Second in Department (History and Government & Politics) at a leading international school.
Every resource I share has been taught in my own classroom. I don't advocate them as the finished pieces, but I strive for innovation and welcome feedback to continue to improve my own practice!
Having originally entered into teaching through Teach First, which I completed in a challenging London Borough with a personal grading of Outstanding, I have since worked as a KS3 coordinator and am now a Second in Department (History and Government & Politics) at a leading international school.
Every resource I share has been taught in my own classroom. I don't advocate them as the finished pieces, but I strive for innovation and welcome feedback to continue to improve my own practice!
This lesson provides:
A reasonably extensive coverage of the different electoral systems that are required for analysis in the Edexcel specification
A scaffold for evaluating the different electoral systems in coming to a judgement between them.
A sample question that provides a completely made-up source (so that you can use without fear of reducing the pool of resources already available to students for practicing source questions for this specification).
The presentation is best delivered through the PowerPoint presentation mode, as each electoral system slide comes with buttons which will link you to the strengths, weaknesses and specific examples for students to know for each system. Just click on these during the presentation and it will move to the correct slide.
I have also used data from the electoral commission to create a visual representation of the % make up of seats that would have occurred in the 2017 general election. On slide 21, an additional version of this image is shown - this shows the actual % split of votes so that you can compare each of the images against it. Each individual circle within these images constitutes 1% of the vote.
A 120 page textbook for the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE course: The Vietnam Conflict, 1945 to 1975, covering all the key topics with accompanying tasks and practice exam-style questions, as well as guidance on exam technique.
I created this due to the lack of an exam-board approved textbook. It was a labour of love that amounted to many, many late evenings of work. It is designed so that you can print and distribute to your classes, though please do leave a review if you find it useful!
This is a lesson introducing a deep dive into the different UK political parties. It is designed with the Edexcel Government and Politics specification in mind.
The lesson covers:
An introductory look at the political spectrum
The origins of the Conservative Party
The changing ideologies of-
- One-Nation Conservatism
- The New Right
- Post-Thatcherism (with specific details on new developments under May)
Modern policies on:
- The economy (with the difference between Cameron and May recognised)
- Law and order
- Welfare
- Foreign policy
This is a short lesson on the Soviet Constitution of 1936, including a presentation as well as a worksheet.
The presentation is primarily based around the worksheet and would require contextual knowledge on the part of the teacher.
A lesson that begins the enquiry - to what extent was WWI caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (positioned to students as: “Did a single murder trigger the war to end all wars?”)
Students engage with the first order concept of nationalism and then overlay this with the second order concept of causation. Activities are scaffolded with clear objectives. The powerpoint is accompanied by country-specific information relating to nationalism.
A comprehensive lesson resource looking at the current standing of the Labour Party as well as its historical and ideological groundings.
This lesson also incorporates a consideration of populism as an area of consideration to apply to the most recent leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
This bundle contains the bulk of the resources I used to provide my A-Level unit on Britain, 1625-1701 (Edexcel) last year. It contains a combination of PowerPoint presentations as well as worksheets.
Although this represents a significant amount of time and effort, I am only pricing this at £10 as it comes with some caveats:
These resources will not be sufficient for the full provision of the political and religious components of the A-Level course.
Some lessons are built on the presumption that you have access to the core textbook. They provide direction on relevant pages and recommended tasks, however most lessons are not built on this and if you do not have access to the textbook then there will still be value in accessing the information in the bundle as well as the structure that the course was carried out in.
There is some direction to external websites given in the notes. One task in the unit directs you towards Massolit, which is an incredible resource and I would highly recommend making use of it.
The course will still require extensive time dedicated to understanding the course. Some slides direct discussion, but do not provide all of the information. Although I’d consider this level of knowledge expected to successfully run an A-Level course, I understand that it is a limitation of the resource that it is not comprehensive in and of itself.
This bundle is intended as a resource to draw from. Some lessons you may feel comfortable running with without much amending. However, I’m only sharing this as it is a course I taught for one year and now will not be teaching again due to A-Level changes within the department, so I hope it is of some use in flushing out the courses for other teachers.
The third section of the Crime and Punishment unit. As mentioned in prior uploads, the text looks odd in some of the sample images for the resources - this is not the case within the actual resources once downloaded. If you do have any issues, please let me know.
Included are two PowerPoint lessons that take students through the Renaissance period for Crime and Punishment. It is strongly encouraged to read the notes of the slides before presenting the lesson, to get a view of the content and the focus of each task.
The final slide of each lesson has a large white box. In my lessons, I used this to type up sentence starters and some sentences based upon student input. If you are not comfortable with using PowerPoint to do this in lesson, I would encourage populating this information before the lesson.
A comprehensive lesson resource looking at the current standing of the Liberal Democratic Party as well as its historical and ideological groundings.
This lesson also incorporates a consideration of liberalism as an area of consideration to apply to the evolution of the party, potentially offering stretch and challenge questioning as you cover the evolution of the party.
Four lessons are provided that begin the A-level Government and Politics: Ideologies unit for Liberalism. This was designed for the recent Edexcel course.
Each lesson is provided through a PowerPoint presentation that covers key information alongside discussion points. Additional information for teacher knowledge is often incorporated into the ‘notes’ section of each slide.
The components covered in this bundle are:
The core concepts of individualism, freedom and the state
The core concepts of rationalism, social justice and liberal democracy
Classical Liberalism - its key themes and thinkers
Modern Liberalism - its key themes and thinkers
Not included in this bundle are:
Deep dive lessons into the five key thinkers required for the course.
A consolidation of overall Liberalism
A suitable introduction into the Liberalism course itself
Essay technique for the course
This is an introductory lesson looking at a welfare state for the Britain transformed a-level course.
It focuses on the definition of the term and developing some understanding of the situation at the start of the course.
A lesson that covers the Hungarian Uprising and it’s implications for the development of the Cold War. The lesson comes with a comprehensive information worksheet and a short biography overview of Eisenhower and Malenkov.
The lesson is designed for the Edexcel ‘Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91’ unit.
A further lesson in the Dark Ages Interpretations unit. This now provides students with:
An early introduction to ideas of heresy
A detailed case study looking into the witch trials
Information cards on the different roles of the Church
A scaffold to match the interpretations against the case study
A substantial collection of resources that provide students an effective understanding of the concept of interpretations through a collection of case studies during the Middle Ages.
The first lesson is not included within this pack as I already offer it freely on my page.
The fourth lesson to my Socialism unit, looking at The Third Way.
The presentation gives a level of coverage that would lead to a deep understanding for KS5 students.
A lesson within a wider unit of work, analysing the different causes of WWI.
This lesson provides a narrative of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As this is heavily based on narrative, rather than effectively designed resources, I will share it for free so you can take what you’d find useful.
An introductory lesson to a KS3 unit introducing the second order concept of interpretations.
This lesson provides an introductory scaffold, two short interpretations and guides early analysis that is followed up in subsequent lessons.
