I'm Mrs D. I've been teaching Psychology for over 10 years. I work at an outstanding school, recently rated number 1 state school in the South West.
During my time teaching, I have progressed to Head of Social Sciences, examined for AQA and tutored students.
I have used my experience to curate resources to ensure my students excell in Psychology A Level and want to pass these on to you.
Whether you are a teacher or student I hope you will enjoy using my resources and find them helpful.
Mrs D
I'm Mrs D. I've been teaching Psychology for over 10 years. I work at an outstanding school, recently rated number 1 state school in the South West.
During my time teaching, I have progressed to Head of Social Sciences, examined for AQA and tutored students.
I have used my experience to curate resources to ensure my students excell in Psychology A Level and want to pass these on to you.
Whether you are a teacher or student I hope you will enjoy using my resources and find them helpful.
Mrs D
For AQA Psychology AS and A Level - All Papers
Do you or your students forget what the breakdown of AO1, AO2 and AO3 are in the essay questions? This display poster / folder front page will help you remember.
It shows you clearly the breakdown of marks in 8, 12 and 16 mark questions. Including the breakdown when there is a scenario question.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, who has examined and tutored, I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
For AQA Psychology AS and A Level - All Papers
These blank revision grids will help you prepare for the long essay style questions in both the AS and A level Psychology course.
There are 4 styles of grids to suit all learners. Simply print multiple copies of whichever grid works for you and get planning those essays.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, who has examined and tutored, I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
For AQA Psychology AS and A Level - All Papers
Do you find yourself unsure what studies the exam board can ask about? This list shows you every study the exam board can ask about by name with a quick reminder of what they did.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, who has examined and tutored, I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
Excel document set up for you to start tracking all student work.
You can:
Log student names, targets and teaching groups
Identify if students fit in key groups such as SEND or if they have exam access arrangements
Track homework completion
Track folder checks
Log grades from quizzes, tests and mocks.
This spreadsheet does all the hard work of tracking for you, I’ve sorted the formulas and conditional formatting so that you can just input the raw test scores and it will work out most of the hard work for you.
For example:
If you input a score on a test, it will work out the percentage and what this is as a grade (for this it is set to use the harshest AQA Psychology grade boundaries - but you could easily change these to any boundaries you want to use e.g. another subject’s grade boundaries).
It will work out if the student is on, above or below target in each test. It will then colour code this for you so you can visually see if students are on target easily.
When you enter a student as not submitting a homework it will also colour code this orange to enable you to see clearly patterns in missed homework.
As a bonus tab I’ve included a tracker to enable you to remember which tests have been set. I use this whenever I set a past paper. This means I never accidentally set the same test twice.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, who has examined and tutored, I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
Student Feedback Activities
This download contains two key sheets to help when giving feedback to students:
Student tracking sheet.
DIRT reflection sheet (A4 and A5 versions)
Student tracking sheet.
This sheet lives in student folders. On it they track each test / assessment they do. This is a nice visual log for them to track if they are on target or not. It also helps pupils see clearly how well they are doing in different assessments/ topics. They can also log on this sheet their strengths and areas to improve so that they can track these over different assessments too.
DIRT reflection sheet (A4 and A5 versions)
This sheet can be attached to an assessment or given out when work is given back. Students should be allowed a few minutes to fill this in. This sheet gives them time to think about what they did well / not so well and also gives them space to redo a question / part of a question.
Giving students this DIRT time has been shown to help them learn more from feedback and make greater progress towards their goals.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, who has examined and tutored, I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
If you’ve got an open evening coming up you might be wondering how to prepare or what you could offer to those prospective parents. You might already have some resources and be looking for extra activities to put out.
Here is my pack of open evening resources, which I’ve used for years. They always help me ensure prospective students are persuaded to take psychology.
I’ve included the resources i use for Sociology too as I know many people teach both but these are easily deleted if you don’t need them. Similarly you may need to change a year 3 module or two, if you don’t study the same three as our students do.
In the bundle is:
My door signs
Six interactive activities to put around your classroom (this always gives the room a real buzz and helps keep visitors interested and busy while they wait to speak to the teacher.)
A rolling ppt to put on the board for prospective parents and students to read. (you could amend this to add your dept results / entry requirements).
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, (who has examined and tutored), I have spent time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
For AQA Psychology AS Level - Paper 2 - Approaches AS (Year 1 Content)
Key Study List - A list of all the key studies in the topic.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
Students often struggle learning the many studies they need to refer to in Psychology. This resource aims to help students know which studies to learn, and then acts as a useful resource for learning them.
This download contains one items:
Key Study List: This document contains a list of all the key studies referred to in the Full Notes of the memory topic (can be downloaded separately). After each study is a quick summary of the study which will be useful for questions asking you how a study was done.
For AQA Psychology A Level - Paper - Biopsychology
All of my Biopsychology resources. This Bundle includes all of the documents you need to succeed in the Biopsychology topic.
Including:
Full topic notes
Work booklet
Glossary of key terms
List of key studies
Printable key study flashcards
List of possible 16 mark questions (with grids to complete)
Samples of past paper questions with mark schemes and examiners’ reports
Topic checklist
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, who has examined and tutored, I have spent compiled exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams. Now I want to pass these on to you.
Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what is important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created these resources to help you know what to learn for this topic.
For AQA Psychology A Level - Paper 2 - Biopsychology
Key Study List - A list of all the key studies in the topic.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
Students often struggle learning the many studies they need to refer to in Psychology. This resource aims to help students know which studies to learn, and then acts as a useful resource for learning them.
This download contains two items:
Key Study List: This document contains a list of all the key studies referred to in the Full Notes of the memory topic (can be downloaded separately). After each study is a quick summary of the study which will be useful for questions asking you how a study was done.
For AQA Psychology A Level (Year 2 Content) - Paper 2 - Biological Psychology
Topic Checklist - To help students identify what they need to know for a unit.
Practise Essay Plans - A List of possible 12/16 Mark questions and sample planning sheets.
Sample Papers and Mark Schemes with added Examiners’ Reports - 2 papers for students to practise.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
I always tell my students, learning the content if only half of the battle. Once you know the content it is important to practise applying it to the exam. This resource will help you become adept at answering exam questions.
This download contains 4 documents:
Topic Checklist: This will help you make sure you are confident with the whole spec, you can tick off as you cover a topic and then as you revise it. Make sure nothing is missed with this checklist!
Practise Essay Plans: This document contains a sample 16 mark question on each area of the unit. It then has a blank essay grid next to each of these so you can practise planning each 16 marker. That way whatever they ask in the exam you will be prepared for it.
Sample Exam Paper and Mark Scheme: This document contains two papers made up of past questions for you to practise. Once you’ve completed these you can use the mark schemes and examiners reports attached to check your answers. This will help you start thinking like an examiner.
For AQA Psychology AS Level / A Level - Paper 2 - Approaches.
This bundle contains the following resources for both the AS and Alevel Approaches Content
Full Topic Notes - all the key AO1 / AO3 content you need to know.
Glossary - definitions of all key terms.
As a teacher of over 10 years at an outstanding school, I have examined and tutored. I have spent this time compiling exactly the resources students need to excel in their exams and want to pass these one to you. Whether you are a teacher or student these will help you get ready for the exams.
There is a lot of content to learn in Psychology and it can be difficult to know what important and which evaluation points to use. I’ve done the hard work for you and created this resource to help you know what to learn for this topic.
Full notes: This document contains all of the study notes needed for the topic. If you learn this, you have everything you need to answer any questions, they may set you on this section of the exam. All of the evaluation has been split up into easy chunks, I’ve made it clear by chunking it up into:
A point - the point you are making
Evidence - the study or example to support you
Elaboration – how to explain your point in more detail
Evaluation - a further strength or weakness to help you hit the really hight A/A* grades by showing sustained evaluation.
Throughout I’ve highlighted all the key studies in Blue, so they are easy to spot. These correspond easily with the Key Study Cards and Key Study List (which you can also buy on here) to help you learn all of those pieces of research. I’ve also highlighted the key terms throughout making it easy to ensure you can define all of the key terms on the specification.
Glossary of Key Terms: This is a list of all the key terms for this unit, there are two lists – a blank one for you to fill in as you learn / revise the topic, and a completed one with definitions for each term that you can check your answers against or use to help you understand the language in the Full Notes.
