Ready-to-teach AQA GCSE Sociology Education (Topics 1-3) bundle made up of 13 lessons on the following:

Topic 1 - Different types of education and schools

L1 Different types of education and schools:

Detailed student led lesson on the different stages of education, the different types of schools and the state vs independent divide in education (including arguments for and against private schools). Lesson has been planned to stretch and challenge the most able and includes scaffolding to support all pupils with meeting the lesson objectives.

This lesson also goes through the different types of schools for different ages: Nursery, Primary, Secondary, Sixth form and Higher education.

PLEASE NOTE - Progress check activity requires students to think about the types of schools that apply to their school SO YOU WILL NEED TO EDIT (SCHOOL NAME AND ANSWERS) TO MAKE IT APPLICABLE TO YOUR SCHOOL.

covers the following key terms: Nursery school and classes, Primary Schools, Secondary schools, Sixth form, Higher education, State schools, Academies, Free schools, Special schools, Faith schools, Grammar schools, Independent/ private schools, Specialist schools, National curriculum, Public schools (extension), Local Education Authorities (LEAs) (extension), Admission policy (extension), Ofsted (extension)

ANSWERS FOR MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED (excluding the plenary)

Includes a 3 marker with a success criteria and student-friendly mark-scheme.

Key term and definitions sheet for the lesson included

Resources can be found at the end of the PPT.

L2 State vs independent education and schools:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the difference between independent schools vs state schools and the arguments for and against the existence of independent schools.

Cover the following key terms: Independent schools, Private schools, National curriculum, State-funded school

Covers the following sociologists: The Sutton trust (2011)

ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Key terms you SHOULD know that link: State schools, Independent/ private schools, national curriculum, Public school (extension), Admission policy (extension), Marxism.

Includes a school swap documentary with questions for students to answers

L3 Alternative forms of education and schooling:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand alternative forms of traditional education (e.g. describe the alternative forms of educational provision, explain how the different forms of educational provision differ to traditional forms of education, analyse and evaluate the alternative forms of educational provision.

Covers the following key terms: Home education/ home-schooling, Democratic education/ de-schooling, Vocational education and training

Key sociologists mentioned that students should already be aware of: Ilich (extension)

Answers to all main activities included

Resources can be found at the end of the PPT

Topic 2 - Class differences in educational achievement

L4 Material deprivation:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students define material deprivation and identify examples and explain the role of material deprivation in causing class differences in educational achievement, in particular working-class underachievement.

Covers the following key terms: Class differences in educational achievement, Educational achievement, External factors (home factors), Internal factors (school factors), Social class

Covers the following sociologists: Halsey, Heath, Ridge (1980)

Key term and definition sheet for the lesson included

ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDES

Teaching to all activity included

Makes references to key terms students should know- Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT

L5 Cultural deprivation:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand

Cover the following key terms:
Material factors
Cultural factors
Cultural deprivation
Speech code
The elaborate code
The restricted code
Subculture
Immediate gratification
Deferred gratification
Collectivism
Individualism
Fatalism
Present-time orientation
Future orientated

Makes references to key terms that students may already know that link:
Class differences in achievement
Educational achievement
External achievement
External factors
Internal Factors

ANSWERS TO ALL MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT

Teaching to all technique included

Key term and definition sheet for lesson included

L6 Cultural capital:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the three types of identified by Bourdieu. Students will also be able to explain the role of cultural capital in causing class differences in achievement.

Teaches the following key terms:

Cultural capital

Educational capital

Economical capital

Selection by mortgage (extension)

Makes reference key terms students might have learnt whilst learning about Sugarman’s working and middle-class values:

Meritocracy

Future-time orientation

Deferred gratification

Individualism

Covers Bourdieu’s key study

Includes a 3 marker with detailed scaffolding to help students answer it. Student friendly mark-scheme included for this 3 marker.

SOME ANSWERS INCLUDED.

Includes key term sheet with definitions needed for the lesson.

Includes dicsussion activity with prompts to promote oracy

key term sheet for the lesson attached.

L7 Labelling:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the role of labelling in causing class differences in achievement.

Covers the following key terms: Labelling, Self-fulfilling prophecy/Pygmalion effect, the ‘Halo effect’

Covers the following sociologists: Becker, Rosenthal and Jacobson

Includes key term and definition sheet needed for the lesson.

Includes a discussion activity to promote oracy and engagement
includes a 3 marker and detailed scaffolding to help students answer it.

Also includes a student-friendly marker for self or peer assessment.

ANSWERS FOR MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.

Resources can be found at the end of the PPT

L8 Banding (Setting & Streaming):

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand class differences in achievement (setting and streaming)

Covers the following key terms: Banding, Setting, Streaming, Mixed-ability class

Covers the following sociologists: Ball

Includes a starter activity that recaps content on class difference sin educational achievement that students should have covered so far and answers to these.

ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Includes a ‘teaching to all’ activity

Includes key term and definition sheet for the lesson

Promotes a spiral curriculum by making links to key terms that students might have previously been taught that link to this lesson.

L9 Pupil subcultures:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students describe how setting might cause pupils to form pupil subcultures. To explain how pupil subcultures might explain class differences in achievement . Students will also be able to analyse and evaluate pupil subculture as an explanation for class differences in achievement.

Cover the following key terms: pro-school subcultures, anti-school subcultures/counter-cultures

Covers the following sociologists: Willis

ANSWERS TO SOME MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED .

Makes reference to key terms students may know: Banding, setting, pupil subculture, Norms, Values

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT

Key term and definition sheet for lesson included

Topic 3 - Ethnic differences in educational achievement

L10 Ethnic differences in educational achievement - Cultural factors:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the patterns of ethnic differences in educational achievement, the role of cultural factors in causing ethnic differences in achievement and to analyse and evaluate the role of different cultural factors in causing ethnic differences in achievement.

Covers the following sociologists: Lupton, Sewell, Clarke, Bhatti, Sugarman, Bernstein

Covers the following key terms: Ethnic differences in educational achievement, ethnicity

Answers to all main activities included.

Makes reference to the following key terms students should know that link: Race, Ethnic groups

Introduces students to patterns of ethnic differences in educational achievement.

Main activity is planned as a carousel activity that allows students to collect information on the cultural factors that might affect different ethnic groups and capture this on a sheet that I printed in A3.

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END

L11 Ethnic differences in educational achievement - Material factors:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand the relationship between poverty and ethnicities, the role of material deprivation in causing ethnic differences in achievement, and to analyse and evaluate the role of material deprivation in causing ethnic differences in achievement

Covers the following key terms: Racism, Racial discrimination

Refers to the following key terms students may know that link: Ethnic differences in achievement, External factors vs Internal factors, Cultural vs Material factors, Cultural deprivation, Culture, Norms, Values, Speech codes, Restricted code vs Elaborate code, Social inequality, Primary socialisation

RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT

Answers to MAIN activity included

Includes a discussion activity with prompts and sentence starts to promote oracy.

Includes a 4 marker with detailed scaffolding to help students with answering it.

L12 Ethnic differences in educational achievement - Labelling & Banding:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how labelling, setting and streaming might affect achievement. Students will be able to explain how labelling, setting and streaming might cause ethnic differences in achievement.

Cover the following key terms: stereotypes

Covers the following sociologists: Gillborn and Mirza, Wright, Mirza, Youdell and Interactionist

Key terms you should know: Ethnic differences in achievements - External factors vs Internal factors - Labelling/ teacher expectation - Cultural vs Material factors - Self-fulfilling prophecy – Setting - Streaming - Interactionism vs Structuralism - Social inequality- Processes  - Ethnic group – Educational achievement

Resources can be found at the end of PPT

Lesson also covers banding (setting and streaming) as a form of labelling.

Teaching to all activity included as a progress check activity

ANSWERS TO MOST ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Visual icons included

Starter activity involves students recapping previous knowledge that students should know about ethnic differences in educational achievement, labelling (learnt during class differences in educational achievement), banding (setting and streaming) and interactionism

L13 Ethnic differences in educational achievement - Institutional racism:

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students identify and describe the different ways schools might be institutionally racist and explain how institutional racism might cause ethnic differences in achievement.

Includes a teaching to all activity

ANSWERS FOR SOME ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

Includes two videos as activities

Cover the difference between individual and institutional racism and how labelling links to both.

Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand how institutional racism might cause ethnic differences in achievement.

Cover the following key terms: Institutional racism, Ethnocentric curriculum, Admissions policy, Exclusion policy and Racism. Formal curriculum (extension) and Hidden curriculum (extension)

Covers the following sociologists: David and Ball

key terms you should know: Ethnic differences in achievement - External factors vs Internal factors – Educational achievement – Ethnicity - Labelling/Teacher expectation - Cultural vs Material factors - Self-fulfilling prophecy – Banding -  Setting - Streaming - Interactionism vs Structuralism - Social inequality - Processes -  Ethnic group - national curriculum

Resources can be found at the end of PPT