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An Introductory Session for A-Level Sociology

A brief outline of how I introduce A-level sociology to students unfamiliar with the subject…

Karl Thompson / January 22, 2018

The ‘applied methods*’ question appears in paper 1 of the AQA’s Education with Theory and Methods exam (paper 7192/1). This

Karl Thompson / January 15, 2018

For teachers, ‘teaching to a question’ is often the most efficient way of organizing a lesson, and it’s something I

Station based lessons are those in which the teacher sets up a number of different (and differentiated) tasks on different

Karl Thompson / December 4, 2017

Socrative is a real-time feedback learning-tool which allows teachers to quickly produce multiple choice, true/ false or open ended questions

Karl Thompson / November 27, 2017

Quizlet is basically an online flashcard and quiz generator – you simply set up a discrete ‘study set’, for example,

Karl Thompson / November 4, 2017

There are four main problems of the increasing role of large technology companies in education, all of which stem from

Karl Thompson / September 25, 2017

My weekly ‘Monday teaching and learning’ post: I’ve been thinking about questioning in A-level Sociology recently,* in particular I’ve been

Karl Thompson / September 11, 2017

There are three main types of ‘question’ in A-level sociology exams: Outline and explain questions Analyse questions Evaluate questions This

Karl Thompson / September 4, 2017

‘Ranking is an academic exercise; through the exchange of opinion thinking is exercised and personal understanding is achieved of key