GCSE Sociology [WJEC/ EDUQAS]- Disability and differentiation

This is a GCSE sociology lesson which focuses on the stratification and differentiation unit. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 11 slides on the power point. The lesson goes through how disability can affect life-chances. No other resources are needed other than the power point. Challenge questions provided throughout.

Included:

• Starter activity, education recap. Retrieval practice questioning task.
• Title page- definition of disability. Encouraging students to share their prior knowledge about how disability can affect life-chances.
• Mind-map task, what things do we associate with ‘disability’?
• Explanation of the two ways to view disability- the medical model and social model.
• Discrimination and disability.
• How does disability affect life chances? goes through each of the factors; social exclusion, status, employment and hate crime.
• Link to Marxist view of disability.
• Plenary- short answer exam style question. Encourages peer assessment (this is structured on the pp) Model answer provided.