Collins Schools

            
      Sociology – Keeping students challenged
    
      Currently in school I am co-leading staff CPD on ‘Challenge’ across the curriculum. The focus of this project is raising the level of challenge for students at all stages of the lesson.
    
        3 min
      
        21/03/2013
      
      Sociology – Class activities to beat the New Year slump!
    
      The start of the spring term is always tricky- the sixth form tend to be a combination of stressed about UCAS and sluggish from the holidays, with the view that the exam ‘isn’t for months yet’.
    
        3 min
      
        07/01/2013
      
      Secondary Sociology – Independent Learning: Student Choices
    
      On the occasion when time from getting through the exam specifications allows, I like to give the students a lesson where they can do what they want. Well, not quite what they want, but instead a list of options to...
    
        3 min
      
        20/03/2012
      
      Secondary Sociology – The weird and the wonderful!
    
      My main subject specialism is RE, and so in my second year of teaching when offered KS3 Geography or A2 Sociology of Religion I jumped at the chance to explore ‘religion’ with the students from an angle other than...
    
        3 min
      
        21/02/2012
      
      Secondary Social Sciences – Recap lesson carousel
    
      This lesson evolved from a discussion with a colleague about how we can ask students to recap their knowledge thoroughly, but without endless exam questions and essays. What emerged was so successful that I did it to death that week...
    
        5 min
      
        15/11/2011
      
      Secondary Sociology – Sociological Settler Activities
    
      The settler is essentially a thought-based prelude to a starter activity.  In my practice, it’s usually something projected on the interactive white board as students enter the class.  Not only does a good settler maximise a patch of dead time...
    
        4 min
      
        10/10/2011
      
      Secondary Sociology – Marxism, Education and Music!
    
      Penned as a critique of the rigid education system of the 1950s, I find that Pink Floyd’s 1979 hit “Another Brick in the Wall” (Part Two) serves as a useful illustration of Marxist concepts.
    
        2 min
      
        08/10/2011