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Approaches

Year 2 Scheme of Work good to go!

August 22, 2016May 26, 2017Oxford Psychology Team
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New challenges are coming thick and fast for all of us: getting to grips with new assessment objectives, exam formats and marking systems as well as whole new topics to teach. For those of us planning schemes of work, the linear course gives a welcome flexibility, but this lack of a fixed half-time marker can […]

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‘Learning mats’ for the approaches

November 16, 2015May 26, 2017Mike Griffin 1 Comment

The concept of ‘learning mats’ appears to be popular at the moment – I see lots of examples of these at various training/INSET sessions. If you are unfamiliar with ‘learning mats’, they are essentially laminated posters that sit on students’ desks that provide them with prompts to help them with their work (call them ‘learning […]

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Introduction to approaches

October 27, 2015April 12, 2017Rosalind Geillis 2 Comments

Starting the course with a brief focus on approaches provides students with a better understanding of what psychology actually is and allows links to be made to the concept of psychology as a science. The approaches will then be revisited later in the course when studying Approaches in Psychology (Paper 2 AS / Paper 2 […]

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