Essentials for Busy Teachers

Examinations

School Curriculum and Standards Authority design specifications form the basis of all examinations. All examinations have marking keys.

Learning Guides

A range of practical and useful resources for teaching Modern History that will encourage higher order thinking. Students will be able to work on these resources independently.

Comprehension

These resources offer ways of enabling students to address the demands of different types of comprehension. You will be able to provide students with strategies which will develop their competence in dealing with specific types of questions.

Inquiry Projects

A constructivist approach is applied to varying degrees in all inquiry projects. The aim is to develop an understanding of contested concepts and values.

Creative Writing

Stimulating the imaginations of students and allowing them to express their understanding of humanity and the world around us, in writing that utilises of the power of language.

Close Reading

Enabling students to engage with the core concepts that underpin our analysis of texts and providing step by step strategies that enable them to articulate ideas and formulate comprehensive responses.

Source Analysis

Analysing and scrutinising photographs, speeches, extracts from texts, maps, graphs and tables form the basis of teaching students to question what they see.

In the English Classroom

In the English classroom, many resources and strategies are relevant and useful when engaging students with multiple activities and when examining a range of texts. These resources are adaptable and multi-purposed.