The Sociology Guy

Today’s ten marker is probably one that most students fear…and yes I am aware that it was the 20 marker on last year’s leaked paper, but that does not mean that it won’t be asked in some format in the future. I am a natural pessimist and believe that in preparing students for the worst […]

Today’s question is another request – this time on Gender and Education. Ten markers on this topic can go a number of ways – Internal factors, external factors, subject choice, boys underachieving, girls underachieving, experience of students. It is one I shall revisit over the 40 days from a slightly different angle, but this question […]

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, in which 96 innocent Liverpool fans went to watch their team compete in the FA Cup Semi-Final against Nottingham Forest and never returned. Hundreds more suffered post-traumatic stress, thousands of people lost brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, friends. Football as a spectator […]

One of the many requests I’ve had to cover during this 40 Day challenge is to look at Post-Modernity. In 2016, the last full exam for SCLY4 (legacy resit not included) there was a 33 mark question on Post-Modernity which was a tough one for students to be examined on and those students doing SCLY3 […]

Based on some of the requests that I have received for the 40 Day Challenge from teachers, today’s question looks at Education and Social Policy. The obvious links to be made here are about marketisation, but this has been covered in Paper 1 in 2017 with a ten mark question on how marketisation impacted on […]

Today’s Ten Marker in the 40 day Challenge is an outline and explain question on theory and methods – what would be question 6 on Paper 1. Some teachers and students have a belief that the ten marker on paper 1 would be on methods, with the ten marker on paper 3 being theory, but […]

I’m setting myself and my followers a challenge to turn themselves into A* pupils. With just under 6 weeks to go until the first exam, it’s imperative for students to be starting to look at potential questions that may come up on the paper. Lots of students spend a lot of time looking over the […]

A few weeks ago I wrote about the range of CPD options that were available for Sociology teachers and generally got some nice feedback from teachers saying that it was useful to know that there was support out there for them, particularly NQTs and non-specialist teachers (of which there are many). This post is a […]

During my usual EduTwitter procrastination, I recently came across the following article: TES: We Prefer Robot Teachers In the article, John Hattie is reported as saying at a recent Education conference in Edinburgh, that students he had met in Asia preferred Robot Teachers to their own teachers. As I read the article, I could almost […]