Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap the main education policies and reforms that have had an impact on the education system, explain using examples how education policies or reforms have tackled inequality in education, and analyse and evaluate the extent to which education policies and reforms have tackled inequality in education.
Covers (recaps) class, ethnic and gender inequality in education in a single lesson, building towards a whole-class debate on the statement "Education policies overall have tackled inequality in education".
Covers the following key term: Educational inequality.
Covers the following educational policies and reforms: Free school meals (FSM), Pupil premium, Education Action Zones, Aim Higher, Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), 16 to 19 Bursary Fund, National Literacy Strategy, City Academies, Compensatory education, Sure Start, Assimilation policies, Race Relations Act 1976, Multicultural education, Social inclusion policies (ethnic monitoring, Saturday schools, English as an Additional Language), National Curriculum, Comprehensive schools, GIST, GATE, Raising Boys' Achievement, Reading Champions, Playing for Success, Dads and Sons Campaign.
Covers the following sources and evidence: DCSF (2000) and Ofsted findings on pupil premium and EMA.
Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Educational policies/reforms – Education policy – Marketisation – Open enrolment – Academies – Free schools – Formula funding – League tables – Ofsted reports – Tripartite system – Grammar schools – Comprehensive schools – Canalisation – Class differences in educational achievement – Ethnic differences in educational achievement – Gender differences in educational achievement – Gender differences in subject choice – External vs Internal factors – Cultural vs Material factors – Material deprivation – Cultural deprivation – Speech codes – Gender role socialisation – Gendered subject images – Gendered career opportunities.
Includes a DO NOW retrieval task with paired talk and modelled sentence starters recapping every reform studied so far.
Includes an ACTIVATE research task with a full information-gathering table and a guidance frame.
Includes four PROGRESS CHECK slides using whole-class "on your fingers" responses to check which inequality each policy was introduced to tackle.
Includes DEEPER THINKING and stretch and challenge prompts throughout, asking students to judge which policies contributed the most and the least, and why.
Includes a structured class debate with scaffolding for argument, counter-argument and rebuttal.
Includes a "most useful / least useful" evaluation grid to build analysis and evaluation skills.
INCLUDES 3 MARKER.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT.
Pedagogical strategies used: Retrieval practice; explicit vocabulary instruction with prior knowledge key term lists repeated across the objectives, activate and demonstrate slides; modelling and worked sentence starters; scaffolded table frames; metacognitive prompts asking students to justify their most/least judgements; adaptive teaching through layered task framing and hint boxes; whole-class responsive checks for understanding; opportunities for stretch and challenge; and an exam-style assessment opportunity with success criteria.
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap the main education policies and reforms that have had an impact on the education system, explain using examples how education policies or reforms have tackled inequality in education, and analyse and evaluate the extent to which education policies and reforms have tackled inequality in education.
Covers (recaps) class, ethnic and gender inequality in education in a single lesson, building towards a whole-class debate on the statement "Education policies overall have tackled inequality in education".
Covers the following key term: Educational inequality.
Covers the following educational policies and reforms: Free school meals (FSM), Pupil premium, Education Action Zones, Aim Higher, Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), 16 to 19 Bursary Fund, National Literacy Strategy, City Academies, Compensatory education, Sure Start, Assimilation policies, Race Relations Act 1976, Multicultural education, Social inclusion policies (ethnic monitoring, Saturday schools, English as an Additional Language), National Curriculum, Comprehensive schools, GIST, GATE, Raising Boys' Achievement, Reading Champions, Playing for Success, Dads and Sons Campaign.
Covers the following sources and evidence: DCSF (2000) and Ofsted findings on pupil premium and EMA.
Makes reference to the following key terms students might know to promote a spiral curriculum: Educational policies/reforms – Education policy – Marketisation – Open enrolment – Academies – Free schools – Formula funding – League tables – Ofsted reports – Tripartite system – Grammar schools – Comprehensive schools – Canalisation – Class differences in educational achievement – Ethnic differences in educational achievement – Gender differences in educational achievement – Gender differences in subject choice – External vs Internal factors – Cultural vs Material factors – Material deprivation – Cultural deprivation – Speech codes – Gender role socialisation – Gendered subject images – Gendered career opportunities.
Includes a DO NOW retrieval task with paired talk and modelled sentence starters recapping every reform studied so far.
Includes an ACTIVATE research task with a full information-gathering table and a guidance frame.
Includes four PROGRESS CHECK slides using whole-class "on your fingers" responses to check which inequality each policy was introduced to tackle.
Includes DEEPER THINKING and stretch and challenge prompts throughout, asking students to judge which policies contributed the most and the least, and why.
Includes a structured class debate with scaffolding for argument, counter-argument and rebuttal.
Includes a "most useful / least useful" evaluation grid to build analysis and evaluation skills.
INCLUDES 3 MARKER.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PPT.
Pedagogical strategies used: Retrieval practice; explicit vocabulary instruction with prior knowledge key term lists repeated across the objectives, activate and demonstrate slides; modelling and worked sentence starters; scaffolded table frames; metacognitive prompts asking students to justify their most/least judgements; adaptive teaching through layered task framing and hint boxes; whole-class responsive checks for understanding; opportunities for stretch and challenge; and an exam-style assessment opportunity with success criteria.
