#2024 Challenge

So, it’s been a long time since I posted to this website – for many reasons, but one of which is that I have been just swamped with work.

However, as people who have followed me for a few years might know, this is the time of year when the adrenaline usually kicks in and I set myself a ridiculous challenge that I share with students – for past examples see the #40daychallenge and the #2022challenge pages where I tried to write model answers for a period of time.

This year, with slightly less time to complete these challenges, I have decided to instead set a series of revision workouts. An hour per day of directed revision activities that I will post on my instagram account (and possibly X – although I really don’t like that platform any more). For teachers, I am making these activities free to download and use in classrooms.

How it works is that I set the tasks in the morning, and through the day I post what would be my responses to the tasks set. It’s not continuous prose as I have done in the past, but rather a series of targeted activities looking at as many areas of the specification as possible. The schedule is posted above, but I will be making all resources available to teachers and students as they are produced. There are 9 or 10 workouts already available on the 2024 challenge page of this website.

Best of luck to all students sitting this year’s A levels. Last year there were over 45,000 students sitting sociology, which made it the sixth biggest A level. Here’s hoping that a brighter and better future comes from these inquisitive minds.

Craig

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The Sociology Guy is a pseudonym originally used by Craig Gelling when he was working in an FE College to provide an outlet for his frustrations with how he was expected to teach and strict rules around intellectual property in his former employer. The Sociology Guy name came from his early years as a supply teacher, where students would often not know his name and ask for ‘the sociology guy’ when coming to the staff room. Initially set up in 2018 as an anonymous You Tube channel, Craig has since written, recorded and presented for many different organisations and education providers. His purpose is to try and make sociology both accessible and understandable for all students and support teachers to inspire the next generation of sociologists.

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