Welfare State, New Right, New Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May, Marxism, British Politics 1945-2018. Brainstorming will help you differentiate - simply mix the more able/G&T with the less able students and ask them to work in groups. Add your exam Qs to the mix and you can easily turn it into 3-5 lessons! The resource has been updated again (May2018) and includes a lot of extremely helpful information now - I hope you’ll find it useful - any comments are welcome! I tried to avoid being too biased… :-) Enjoy! :-)

Gender and Educational Achievement - Introduction (AQA, but easy to adapt for other exam boards), 1-2 hours of content-rich teaching, including a nice starter/do-now activity. An extended version (17 slides, covering effectively the whole topic and linked to a fabulous third-party video summary) is also available (“Gender and Educational Achievement”).

law, police, lawyers

Criminology - WJEC Level 3 Applied Diploma - Topic 1.3 - Explain how evidence is processed - Locard’s exchange principle. A well-structured and engaging lesson (single or double) with a number of activities. If you need a ‘Bodily fluids and tissues’ as well as ‘Fingerprints’ lesson, please check my online shop for an inexpensive separate presentation.

A well-prepared lesson (about 1-2 hours of classroom teaching). Should work fine with any major exam board. Linked to a short video clip, the material has been recently taught and should save you a lot of your own preparation time! An extended version (including the New Right and Marxist perspectives) is also available (as an extended, 44-slide presentation: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12560703 ). I will be really grateful for a review, even two lines will do - thanks in advance for your support!

An introductory lesson (about 50 minutes of teaching). Providing an outline of the whole Attachment module and some example questions (with a mark scheme for a 12-marker). A similar presentation covering Caregiver - Infant Interactions (incl. Meltzoff and Moore) worth up to two hours of teaching is also available from my shop.

This presentation will make explaining ethnic differences in educational achievement easy and enjoyable. It will take approximately 2 hours to cover its contents. For an extended version, including both External and Internal Factors, please refer to my ‘premium’ (yet modestly-priced) presentation titled ‘Ethnic Differences in Educational Achievement.’ Your 4 or 5-star review will always be welcome! Have fun using this presentation – your students will love it!

Covers ‘Deviation from Social Norms’ - should help you teach at least one lesson. There is also an extended version of this presentation available, covering Deviation from Social Norms, Statistical Infrequency, and an AO3 evaluation element of exam-style questions plus an Assessment for Learning element (great for an observed lesson or to ensure your students stay focused at all times) in the form of an extra sheet, which may help you teach about 2-3 of rlessons.

This presentation will make explaining ethnic differences in educational achievement easy and enjoyable. It should work with any exam board curriculum and may take between 2 and 5 hours to cover its contents, depending on the ability of your students and whether you want them to write and peer-assess the exam-style answers covered by the final slide. Perfect for an observed lesson! Your 4 or 5-star review will always be welcome! Have fun using this presentation – your students will love it!

Perfect for Y10, 11, 12 and 13 either to introduce or revise for GCSE/A-Levels. Seven fairly generic questions at the end of the presentation which you may easily amend turning them into essays (based on your specific exam board requirements). It should take you at least 2-3 hours to teach the contents (40 slides). Included: the origins, the branches, the basics of the New Testament, Paul, Augustine, Pelagius, Tertullian, Luther, Barth, Bonhoeffer, MLK, Calvinism, Catholicism, Anglicanism, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Eastern Orthodoxy and more (including Mormons, Putin and Donald Trump)!

A complete lesson covering Caregiver - Infant Interactions (incl. Meltzoff and Moore and others). Worth about 2 hours of teaching. Includes past exam questions *and * Ofsted-favourite ‘show us the progress your students are making during your lesson/do your students refer to the original learning objectives/learning question’ throughout your lesson’ feature!

Criminology - WJEC Level 3 Applied Diploma - Topic 1.3 - Explain how evidence is processed - Bodily Fluids and tissues - Fingerprints. Based on Rob Webb’s and Annie Townend’s ‘Criminology Book Two for the WJEC Level 3 Applied Diploma’ (2021 edition). A well-structured lesson (either single or double), with a number of engaging activities to ensure effective teaching and student recall of physical evidence collection, transfer, and storage.

One of the TES reviewers wrote about its earlier, free version: This is a great resource - with really thought provoking material that will definitely get the students talking and help them to understand the different perspectives in UK today. Thank you SO much! This updated version (30 Sept 2024) is suitable for KS3-KS5 students, covering subjects such as Citizenship, Sociology, Government and Politics, and possibly History (Communism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy and Thatcherism). It includes comprehensive coverage of main perspectives, a wide range of activities that can be very easily differentiated, as well as some valuable multimedia links. If you need more details, feel free to contact me!

A series of lessons (about 3-6 hours of classroom teaching, 44 slides) with engaging exam-oriented tasks you can easily tailor to suit the needs of your particular group, describing (and focusing on both AO1 and AO2/3): The Functionalist Perspective, Neoliberal / the New Right perspective on education as well as The Marxist View. Extension tasks have been included, this series of lessons should work fine with any major exam board. Plenaries and example questions provided. Links to 3 short video clips (about 1.5-3 minutes each) included, plus a link to an AQA pdf booklet (the booklet is available for free - you can use it to introduce your learning objectives/see your students’ progress throughout your lessons even if your SoW is not AQA-based), it can be taught with any AS/A-level Sociology textbook. The material has been recently tested in the classroom and should save you hours of your own preparation time!

This is an extended version of the ‘Introduction/Deviation from Social Norms’ presentation (available in my online shop for free!). This presentation covers: Deviation from Social Norms, Statistical Infrequency, and an AO3 evaluation element of an exam-style question and is accompanied by an Assessment for Learning sheet (which should help you ensure your students stay focused throughout a whole lesson/your observed lesson goes really well as your students’ progress is clearly evident), which should cover about 2-3 hours of teaching.

Gender and Educational Achievement (AQA, but easy to adapt for other exam boards specs), including Internal and External Factors. 2-3 hours of teaching (17 slides), including a nice starter/do-now activity, a short piece of homework (writing a mark-scheme-based 6-marker, which can be easily differentiated and turned into a classroom activity lasting from 10-30 minutes, e.g. by using our students’ answers to peer-assess them on the whiteboard with other students’ active participation). A short (15 minutes, optional) video summary created by a third party added to the end of this content-rich presentation.

Explaining GDP, GNP, measuring development etc. Explaining the difference between ‘rich’ countries and developed countries. Infant mortality, literacy, life expectancy etc. Should easily cover 1 or 2 lessons, if observed that lesson/those lessons will show evident progress (3 learning objectives/takeaways, can be easily differentiated (the 3rd takeaway being the most challenging: i. What is Development? ii. An overview of development indicators; iii. How is development measured? (Plus examples of different levels of development in various countries).