Having originally entered into teaching through Teach First, which I completed in a challenging London Borough with a personal grading of Outstanding, I have since worked as a KS3 coordinator and am now a Second in Department (History and Government & Politics) at a leading international school.
Every resource I share has been taught in my own classroom. I don't advocate them as the finished pieces, but I strive for innovation and welcome feedback to continue to improve my own practice!
Having originally entered into teaching through Teach First, which I completed in a challenging London Borough with a personal grading of Outstanding, I have since worked as a KS3 coordinator and am now a Second in Department (History and Government & Politics) at a leading international school.
Every resource I share has been taught in my own classroom. I don't advocate them as the finished pieces, but I strive for innovation and welcome feedback to continue to improve my own practice!
A 120 page textbook for the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE course: The Vietnam Conflict, 1945 to 1975, covering all the key topics with accompanying tasks and practice exam-style questions, as well as guidance on exam technique.
I created this due to the lack of an exam-board approved textbook. It was a labour of love that amounted to many, many late evenings of work. It is designed so that you can print and distribute to your classes, though please do leave a review if you find it useful!
This is a 69 page resource pack that contains practice exam questions, sources and interpretations for the Edexcel - Russia and the Soviet Union course, all broken down by key topic. Included within the pack are:
Practice questions
59 practice questions for Q1
35 practice questions for Q2
49 practice questions for Q3a
12 practice questions for Q3b
12 practice questions for Q3c
12 practice questions for Q3d
Sources
46 sources for key topic 1
41 sources for key topic 2
19 sources for key topic 3
17 sources for key topic 4
Interpretations
12 interpretations for key topic 1
4 interpretations for key topic 2
5 interpretations for key topic 3
5 interpretations for key topic 4
Where interpretations are authored by C. Kent, they have just been made up to enable a question to be asked. These interpretations have a letter assigned alongside a number, e.g. Interpretation 3A.
A presentation looking at the consequences of the Treaty of Brest Litvosk on Russia.
Guidance to lesson slides is often included in the notes section of a slide.
This bundle contains the bulk of the resources I used to provide my A-Level unit on Britain, 1625-1701 (Edexcel) last year. It contains a combination of PowerPoint presentations as well as worksheets.
Although this represents a significant amount of time and effort, I am only pricing this at £10 as it comes with some caveats:
These resources will not be sufficient for the full provision of the political and religious components of the A-Level course.
Some lessons are built on the presumption that you have access to the core textbook. They provide direction on relevant pages and recommended tasks, however most lessons are not built on this and if you do not have access to the textbook then there will still be value in accessing the information in the bundle as well as the structure that the course was carried out in.
There is some direction to external websites given in the notes. One task in the unit directs you towards Massolit, which is an incredible resource and I would highly recommend making use of it.
The course will still require extensive time dedicated to understanding the course. Some slides direct discussion, but do not provide all of the information. Although I’d consider this level of knowledge expected to successfully run an A-Level course, I understand that it is a limitation of the resource that it is not comprehensive in and of itself.
This bundle is intended as a resource to draw from. Some lessons you may feel comfortable running with without much amending. However, I’m only sharing this as it is a course I taught for one year and now will not be teaching again due to A-Level changes within the department, so I hope it is of some use in flushing out the courses for other teachers.
Four lessons are provided that begin the A-level Government and Politics: Ideologies unit for Liberalism. This was designed for the recent Edexcel course.
Each lesson is provided through a PowerPoint presentation that covers key information alongside discussion points. Additional information for teacher knowledge is often incorporated into the ‘notes’ section of each slide.
The components covered in this bundle are:
The core concepts of individualism, freedom and the state
The core concepts of rationalism, social justice and liberal democracy
Classical Liberalism - its key themes and thinkers
Modern Liberalism - its key themes and thinkers
Not included in this bundle are:
Deep dive lessons into the five key thinkers required for the course.
A consolidation of overall Liberalism
A suitable introduction into the Liberalism course itself
Essay technique for the course
The fourth lesson to my Socialism unit, looking at The Third Way.
The presentation gives a level of coverage that would lead to a deep understanding for KS5 students.
This lesson provides:
A reasonably extensive coverage of the different electoral systems that are required for analysis in the Edexcel specification
A scaffold for evaluating the different electoral systems in coming to a judgement between them.
A sample question that provides a completely made-up source (so that you can use without fear of reducing the pool of resources already available to students for practicing source questions for this specification).
The presentation is best delivered through the PowerPoint presentation mode, as each electoral system slide comes with buttons which will link you to the strengths, weaknesses and specific examples for students to know for each system. Just click on these during the presentation and it will move to the correct slide.
I have also used data from the electoral commission to create a visual representation of the % make up of seats that would have occurred in the 2017 general election. On slide 21, an additional version of this image is shown - this shows the actual % split of votes so that you can compare each of the images against it. Each individual circle within these images constitutes 1% of the vote.
This is a short lesson on the Soviet Constitution of 1936, including a presentation as well as a worksheet.
The presentation is primarily based around the worksheet and would require contextual knowledge on the part of the teacher.
A further lesson in the Dark Ages Interpretations unit. This now provides students with:
An early introduction to ideas of heresy
A detailed case study looking into the witch trials
Information cards on the different roles of the Church
A scaffold to match the interpretations against the case study
A further lesson in the Dark Ages Interpretations unit. This now provides students with:
The story of the Peasants’ Revolt
A detailed case study looking into the revolt with numerous sources - this case study allows students to match against both interpretations
An investigation grid to scaffold analysis for the students
A bundle of lessons looking at the causes of World War I.
These can build towards an assessment question:
’ To what extent was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand the main cause of World War I?’
Lesson 3 within this unit is provided free on its own sale page.
A GCSE-standard lesson for a Medicine Through Time course, looking at the role of Francis Bacon and the impact of the Baconian method.
The lesson also provides an early insight into deductive vs. inductive reasoning, as well as scaffolds student thinking on the second order concept of cause & consequence.
The lesson concludes with an extended writing task that draws upon scaffolding for both paragraph structure as well as the need to incorporate effective use of criteria (necessary for the GCSE examinations).
This is a collection of resources that covers the full entirety of the first depth study for Edexcel option 30: ‘Lancastians, Yorkists and Henry VII’.
There is an introductory lesson, as well as eight further individual lessons and two flipped learning work books that support student learning.
The unit is designed with access to the Pearson Edexcel textbook in mind. It is strongly encouraged for students to be able to access this resource alongside this lesson pack.
The fourth lesson in the audio-enabled, self teach enquiry on the Italian Renaissance. This lesson is not audio-enabled, however most remaining lessons in the unit are where audio-instructions are useful. This lesson focuses more on writing technique and the consolidation of the lessons so far in building towards the end assessment.
Full information on the course can be found on the bundle resource page or the lesson one page.
This is the last resource I will upload separately from the full bundle.
This is a substantial, eight lesson KS3 course looking at the causes of the Italian Renaissance. It was created with the intention of being able to provide directly to students so that they can then self-teach the course. Many slides come with audio-buttons that will trigger (if in presentation mode) to provide audio-instruction on what to do or what to know.
Many lessons come with additional handouts and writing templates. The intended end product is an essay, where the question format is in line with a GCSE style question, to begin training students to understand how to access questions like that. Each lesson builds towards this end point, both in terms of content as well as analytical and written\ ability.
The level of delivery for the unit was high-attaining Year 8, however there is enough content and complexity in the unit for it to be useful for Year 9 students as well.
A lesson within a wider unit of work, analysing the different causes of WWI.
This lesson provides a narrative of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As this is heavily based on narrative, rather than effectively designed resources, I will share it for free so you can take what you’d find useful.
An introductory lesson to a KS3 unit introducing the second order concept of interpretations.
This lesson provides an introductory scaffold, two short interpretations and guides early analysis that is followed up in subsequent lessons.
