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I am Head of Social Sciences teaching AS/A level Sociology and Psychology. For many years I’ve taught History through to A'level and Archaeology through to GCSE and have been Citizenship/PSHE coordinator. I am currently an accredited Lead Practitioner (leading on Stretch and Challenge), an AQA Senior Examiner for Sociology Paper 3 and an AQA EPQ Moderator. I’ve authored an AS/A level Sociology Revision book for Paper 1 (AQA), published by Collins - for the current 2015 Spec.

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I am Head of Social Sciences teaching AS/A level Sociology and Psychology. For many years I’ve taught History through to A'level and Archaeology through to GCSE and have been Citizenship/PSHE coordinator. I am currently an accredited Lead Practitioner (leading on Stretch and Challenge), an AQA Senior Examiner for Sociology Paper 3 and an AQA EPQ Moderator. I’ve authored an AS/A level Sociology Revision book for Paper 1 (AQA), published by Collins - for the current 2015 Spec.
AQA 7993 EPQ Taught Skills for Students - The Presentation
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AQA 7993 EPQ Taught Skills for Students - The Presentation

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This PowerPoint is aimed at students and can form part of the taught delivery. It goes through the final Presentation - how to design and develop it, the issues to consider and how to improve it. It's accompanied with a check sheet and guide. I used this towards the end of the process as students had almost completed their Production Log and their report. There are 2 examples both with some good and bad aspects - these are helpful for the students to discuss. AQA A'Level EPQ 7993
Introduction to Sociology  for Yr 11 Taster Day:  Norms, Values and Culture
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Introduction to Sociology for Yr 11 Taster Day: Norms, Values and Culture

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This provides a 1 hour plus start to sociology develops the ideas of society, culture, role, status, stereotyping - as well as developing themes such as social control, belief, family, education etc. There are a good range of accompanying resources to see you through the lesson, to teach from and for students to record their individual/group ideas. This is based on the Shirbits idea. I have a 2 taster sessions (both uploaded).
GCE AQA Sociology: Crime and Deviance  (7192/3): Revision Quiz
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GCE AQA Sociology: Crime and Deviance (7192/3): Revision Quiz

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Quiz involving 4 rounds - Sociologists, studies, picture round and pot luck. The Joker card enables a group to double their points (groups must declare their joker before the round starts). For a really competitive group 'The Devil Cards' work well, enabling half of another teams points to be stolen! The document has the answers for each round included - make sure these are removed before use with a class! Note - there are a couple of ‘suicide’ questions included, as the quiz was created pre-spec 2015. These need to be removed and replaced as Suicide is no longer in the Spec.
Introduction to Sociology for Yr 11 Taster Day: Establishing Society
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Introduction to Sociology for Yr 11 Taster Day: Establishing Society

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This provides a 1 hour starter/taster to sociology develops the ideas of society, role, stereotyping - as well as developing themes such as social control, belief, family, education etc. The session is taught through the PowerPoint and based around discussion of the roles needed for society, whats needed to create a functional society, who would best provide the roles and inevitably stereotyping. Students typically discuss the need for power and control and who has it. This leads to some nice early ideas developing Marxism and Functionalism. Accompanying resources are attached. This is based on the lifeboat game. I have a 2 taster sessions (both uploaded).
Exemplar Work Wall Display
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Exemplar Work Wall Display

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Use of exemplar material as wall displays can be great to help model A/A* work for students. The attachments are an example of Exemplar Work for Sociology (20/20) with a picture of it displayed in my room. I find the key terms great on the wall to draw the attention of the students. Having used the markscheme extensively with students, they have become adept at marking each others work pretty effectively with the AQA markscheme. I have also included a powerpoint that I used for staff training, to assist with the use of exemplar work being used around the college.
GCSE WJEC Sociology: Course Revision Guide
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GCSE WJEC Sociology: Course Revision Guide

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This guide simply outlines the course for students to help them both plan their revision and ensure they cover all aspects of the course. It contains information on: Course Content Exam Information Revision Strategies
PSHE/Citizenship Staff Skills Audit
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PSHE/Citizenship Staff Skills Audit

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PSHE/Citizenship is taught by a range of staff in my school. I use the skills audit to establish what skills the teaching staff have and where they might be able to assist others, areas of training required - which helps me plan our area meeting. It's helpful for planning and means that we can make the most of the diverse range of skills.
Yr 12 Tutor Session - Inroduction to Yr 12/Level 3
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Yr 12 Tutor Session - Inroduction to Yr 12/Level 3

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1st lesson with my Year 12s - Tutor time. I used the powerpoint to get them to think about the GCSE/GCE gap! The powerpoint was to help get to know their fellow tutees. I have further Year 12 and 13 Tutor material uploaded.
AQA GCE Sociology Taster Sessions and Information
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AQA GCE Sociology Taster Sessions and Information

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This bundle includes two separate 1 hour taster sessions, aimed at Year 11s, This includes PowerPoint for both lessons and activity sheets. Furthermore a detailed information leaflet for Year 11 for the course, including course information, career progression, further reading etc.
Introduction to Psychology  for Yr 11 Taster Day: Ethical Experiments
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Introduction to Psychology for Yr 11 Taster Day: Ethical Experiments

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This provides a 1 hour plus start to Psychology develops the ideas of the methodology of psychologists and in particular ethical considerations, changes in ideas, thinking and medical ability. There are a good range of accompanying resources to see you through the lesson, to teach from and for students to record their individual/group ideas. This is based on the ethical experiments idea. . I have 3 taster sessions (all are uploaded).
The Medieval Church
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The Medieval Church

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Medieval Church. For a lesson on the role of the church - control and punish. Considers the idea of 'sin&' and punishment and where Doom Paintings fit in.
Witchcraft
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Witchcraft

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The PowerPoint begins with a 'witch bottle&' starter, to intrigue students! They could design their own witch bottle. The PowerPoint goes on to look at images of witchcraft and cases brought to trial. It concludes with punishments, which my class acted out in short sketches, and really enjoyed doing, There are questions to focus/ direct learning and check that learning has occurred.
Practical Application:  From Design Brief to Proposed Sociological Methodology!
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Practical Application: From Design Brief to Proposed Sociological Methodology!

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I created this lesson for an observation. It was a 2 hour lesson but you could split it over 2 lessons or reduce it down to 1 1/2 hours. There is a practical starter - reminding of terms and the process of choosing a methodology from start to finish. The main activity comprises of 5 separate applied scenarios. Students are given one of these Briefs and then need to decided what questions they need to ask to proceed further to make decisions about this proposed study. They are then given further information - giving info about personal characteristics, funds, funding bodies etc. There is an activity to run along side this and lesson plan to explain how the lesson runs.
Crime Day:  Offender Profiling 'Railway Killer'
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Crime Day: Offender Profiling 'Railway Killer'

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This long activity supports a ‘Crime Day’ for Year 8/9 launched by the school. The activity is designed to last 1hour 20 mins. I have run the session several times and the activities work over an hour lesson but time can be reduced to make the lesson work for a 1 hour slot. The aim of this session is to introduce students to offender profiling (they are not expected to have any previous knowledge). The activities introduce the idea of offender profiling and what it is. Students are then introduced to the real crimes of the Railway Murderer (Railway Rapist) where offender profiling was successfully used. The student copy powerpoint, is simply what I printed off for students and gave out at the relevant stages of the lesson. I made students aware of two important things - 1. There is some relatively graphic content which I included because this information provided important clues. I made sure students knew that they had the option to leave the room if anything was upsetting. I have never had a student leave however! 2. At the end of the lesson, I made sure students were aware that I had used some poetic licence with some of the details. The events are true, but I have made up suspects 1,2 and 4, simply for the sake of the activity. There obviously were other suspects, but I did not have access to any details. I have also made up some of the information, for example the blood groups is entirely fictitious. So please do be aware of this! The activity works well and is very effectively, creating lots of analysis, deduction and discussion. The final slide is time dependent but provide a contrast where ‘offender profiling’ has not worked and actually been detrimental to justice.
GCSE WJEC Sociology: Crime and Deviance – Marxists Theory
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GCSE WJEC Sociology: Crime and Deviance – Marxists Theory

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This PowerPoint is used as the 8+th lesson for GCSE WJEC Sociology (Paper 2: Crime and Deviance Section). The PowerPoints covers Sociological Theory – Marxism, their core concepts and theories and an evaluation (seperate ppt for Working class and corporate crime). There are also a range of activities included. Reference to the text book is the WJEC Illuminate Textbook.
Gender Dysphoria - AQA Psychology A'Level 7182/3
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Gender Dysphoria - AQA Psychology A'Level 7182/3

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This is a complete lesson covering Gender Dysphoria (Gender Identity Disorder). Resources include a complete lesson PowerPoint, activities such as case studies, evaluation sorting activity leading to essay practice, video documentary and assessment marking activity. I have used this at A'level, however, it could easily be adapted and used for PSHE. AQA Psychology A'Level 7182/3
Gender Chromosomes and Hormones - AQA Psychology A'Level 7182/3
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Gender Chromosomes and Hormones - AQA Psychology A'Level 7182/3

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I created this lesson for my A'Level Psychology lesson on Biological influences on Gender - specifically the role of genetics and hormones (Gender). There is a PowerPoint, videos as well as activities, e.g. the Silent Debate and assessments within the PowerPoint. I have a VLC copy of 'The Boy with no Penis' so if the link doesn't work let me know! AQA Psychology A'Level 7182/3
GCSE WJEC Sociology:  Crime and Deviance – Social Construction
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GCSE WJEC Sociology: Crime and Deviance – Social Construction

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This PowerPoint is used as the 2nd lesson for GCSE WJEC Sociology (Paper 2: Crime and Deviance Section). It introduces the concepts of Social Concept and Social Fact. The PowerPoint gives information and activities. The reference to the text book is the WJEC Illuminate Textbook. For the 1st slide I used the Vuvuzela noise which I got from YouTube, There were numerous posts of this.