I have been teaching for over 10 years in schools and sixth form settings, with additional responsibilities of delivering the EPQ qualification, involvement with transition from primary school to Year 7, and supporting progression to university
I have been teaching for over 10 years in schools and sixth form settings, with additional responsibilities of delivering the EPQ qualification, involvement with transition from primary school to Year 7, and supporting progression to university
This bundle contains two quiz resources:
Quiz questions to use throughout the year
If used alongside the ‘Families and Households’ schemes of work, this is used for the ‘5 question quiz’ at the start of each topic, to aid recall from the previous topic. The word document is not written in a question format - teachers have the freedom to phrase the questions as they see fit e.g. ‘define this word’ or ‘what did this sociologist say?’ A student answer booklet is provided for students to keep track of their scores and can be used as a class competition.
Giant Christmas Quiz
A bumper quiz covering all of theory and methods. The quiz is festive, as we teach this topic at the start of Year 12, from September-December. However, the Powerpoint could be edited to change the theme if using at a different point in the year.
Rounds include:
‘Some people are worth melting for’ - sociological perspectives
The Weakest Link - PET factorsSecret Santa - key sociologists
Christmas presents - key words
‘Noel it all’ - general knowledge
Film Round
Bonus Round - Santa’s Sleigh key words
This bundle contains two quiz resources:
Quiz questions to use throughout the year
If used alongside the Perspectives/Theories schemes of work, this is used for the ‘5 question quiz’ at the start of each topic, to aid recall from the previous topic. The word document is not written in a question format - teachers have the freedom to phrase the questions as they see fit e.g. ‘define this word’ or ‘what did this sociologist say?’ A student answer booklet is provided for students to keep track of their scores and can be used as a class competition.
Giant Christmas Quiz
A bumper quiz covering all of theory and methods. The quiz is festive, as we teach these topics at the start of Year 12, from September-December. However, the Powerpoint could be edited to change the theme if using at a different point in the year.
Rounds include:
‘Some people are worth melting for’ - sociological perspectives
The Weakest Link - PET factors
Secret Santa - key sociologists
Christmas presents - key words
‘Noel it all’ - general knowledge
Bonus Round - Santa’s Sleigh key words
This lessons covers ‘Methods in Context’, and is intended for delivery after completing the ‘Education’ and ‘Research Methods’ schemes of work
Students apply their understanding of research methods to specific contexts within education.
Activities include:
‘Be the researcher’ - design sociological research relating to education
Research methods mindmapping
Balloon activity - key research participants
Discussion around contexts and settings
Lucky dip - method and topic
This lesson has a heavy focus on exam technique. Students work through 3 scaffolded questions with example paragraphs. Additional example exam questions also included.
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers policies spanning across 4 governments, from 1979 until the present day
Students explore and evaluate the purpose of government policies: raising stanards, marketisation, economic efficiency
They also evaluate the extent to which policies have created equality or inequality between classes, ethnicities and genders
Activities include:
Name that education secretary
Pre-1979 policies research
Group presentations on each government
Applying perspectives
The lesson also looks at globalisation - cause and effect activity
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the pupil identities, in relation to class, gender and ethnicity
Students explore and evaluate the way in which schools influence pupil identities. The main focus is gender identities:
Working class female identity: symbolic capital, hyper-heterosexual feminine identities, boyfriends and being loud
Sexual and gender identities: double standards, verbal abuse, the male gaze, policing identities, teachers and discipline
Activities include:
Analysis of song lyrics - ‘Boys will be boys’, ‘Popular’ (Wicked), 'Stick to the Status Quo (High School Musical)
Mean Girls - film clip discussion
‘Like a Girl’ campaign - discussion
Lucky dip - school factors and their effect on identity
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
A full scheme of work covering ‘Education with Theory and Methods’ - AQA A-level Sociology. This includes engaging lesson powerpoints, student activity handbooks, exam questions and example answers.
Topics covered:
Introduction
Functionalism
Marxism
Feminism
New Right
Postmodernism
Interactionism
Class - External and Internal
Ethnicity - External and Internal
Gender - External and Internal
Gender and Subject Choice
Pupil Identities
Policies
Methods in Context
(Follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the factors relating to gender and subject choice
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and current research:
Gender role socialisation
Gendered subject images
Gender identity
Gendered careers
Activities include:
Data deep dive
Boys vs girls subject list
Discussion around video clips: British Pathe, Billy Elliot, No More Boys and Girls
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the internal factors relating to gender and achievement
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and current research:
Policies
Role models
Assessment
Teacher attention
Selection
Gender stereotypes
Feminisation of education
Subcultures
Activities include:
Britain’s got Talent audition - discuss
‘Spot the trend’ - teachers and gender
Vote - assessment
Watching a clip from ‘No more boys and girls’
‘Spot the difference’ - gender sterotypes in educational resources
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the external factors relating to gender and achievement
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and current research:
Feminism
Family
Employment
Changing ambitions
Socialisation
Literacy
Decline of traditional industry
Activities include:
‘Guess who’ clever females
Group research analysis
Magazine cover ‘spot the difference’
Girls vs. boys primary research survey
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the internal factors relating to ethnicity and achievement
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and current research:
Labelling and teacher racism
Pupil identities
Pupil responses and subcultures
Institutional racism
Activities include:
Discussion around Stormzy’s Scholarships
Drawing representations of Archer’s pupil identities
Flow chart of interactionism and ethnicity
Colour-coding and comparison of internal vs. external
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the external factors relating to ethnicity and achievement
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and current research:
Cultural deprivation
Material deprivation
Racism
Activities include:
Discussion around a clip from ‘Are our kids tough enough? Chinese School’
Groupwork on statistics relating to achievement (SATs, GCSEs, A-levels and Degrees)
Research task into material deprivation and ethnicity - fact-finding
Racism and educational achievement flow chart
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the internal factors relating to class and achievement
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and current research:
Labelling
Halo Effect
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Setting and streaming
Educational Triage
Subcultures
Activities include:
Groupwork on labelling case studies
Card sorts to show cause and effect
Analysis of Simpsons clip - Principal Seymour
Analysis of Mean Girls clip - cafeteria subcultures
MIchaela School: a case study
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the external factors relating to class and achievement
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and current research:
Cultural -parental education, cultural capital, language, working class subculture
Material - Home, diet and health, cost of education, fear of debt
Activities include:
Data analysis - exam results from KS2 - HE
‘The History Boys’ clip - analysis in relation to cultural capital
Reading ‘Six O’Clock News’ - a poem by Tom Leonard
Spot the difference - elaborated and restricted code
The Marshmallow Test - video
Research into two schools
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the Interactionist method of understanding on Education.
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school:
Labelling
The Halo Effect
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Setting and Streaming
Educational Triage
Subcultures
Activities include:
Discussion around a video clip of Ian Wright with a teacher
Labelling an ‘ideal pupil’
Analysing the Jane Elliot ‘Blue Eyes Brown Eyes’ experiment
Self-fulfiling prophecy card sort
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the Postmodern perspective on Education.
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and research into educational news:
Individualisation
Choice
Lifelong learning
Globalisation
Activities include:
Modernism vs. Postmodernism comparison table
Group research task into 3 schools
Analysis of Ken Robinson lecture - ‘Do schools kill creativity?’
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the Feminist perspective on Education.
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and research into educational news:
Patriarchy in education
Gender stereotypes in education
The gender pay gap
Activities include:
Analysing a clip from ‘No more girls and boys’
Looking at graphs and statistics relating to achievement, subject choice, and gendered staffing
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the Marxist perspective on Education.
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and research into educational news:
Reproducing class inequality
Legitimising class inequality
Maintaining capitalism
Activities include:
Looking at the 2016 SATs exam and cultural capital
Watching a clip from The Simpsons about the ‘CAN’T’ test
Analysing a clip from Educating Manchester in relation to the Hidden Curriculum
Example paragraph and essay plan provided at the end
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the New Right perspective on Education.
Students explore and evaluate key theories through personal experiences of school and research into educational news:
Choice
Marketisation
Privatisation
Meritocracy
Includes an example paragraph and essay plan
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
This lessons covers the Functionalist perspective on Education.
Students explore and evaluate 4 key theories through personal experiences of school and research into educational news:
Socialisation
Bridge
Human Capital
Role Allocation
Includes an example paragraph and essay plan
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)
An introduction to the ‘Education with Theory and Methods’ topic on the AQA Specification
Students are challenged to think about the concept of education by watching different Youtube clips, and discussing the purpose of education, and whether it is successful
(Lesson follows a ‘Be more chef’ model - the lesson takes cooking as an analogy for the starter, main and plenary. The ‘Be more chef’ concept pushes students to go beyond the recipe at the end of the lesson, and strive towards additional independent study)