Supporting doing Sociology with: | |
Key Skills: | Application of literacy, numeracy and ICT towards the specific purpose of carrying out a task, in this case Sociology at AS and A2 levels (some of this also applies to anyone viewing who is starting as a student at a university!). |
Study Skills: | Developing efficient methods of learning and demonstrating learning |
AS levels and A Levels are the beginning of training towards acquiring the kinds of academic skills expected at university. | |
It is not just about gaining sociological knowledge but having the grounded skills and learning the means to put ideas across in a meaningful way. | |
The demands for AS and A levels are certainly not as high as they would be at university, but they are related, and AS and A Level students need to move towards an appropriate literacy, numeracy, use of ICT and study skills level for this and future study. | |
We attempt to develop an academic style by training ourselves: train because we are starting to learn this style now - and improving never ends. Improving never ends for the AS and A Level student, for the degree student, for the postgraduate student, and for any teacher. Teachers too continually need to improve. We are all in the same boat. | |
I would add that I am constantly learning, and so I am a learner too. For example I am still involved in my own study skills because I learn in order to teach and I learn when I teach. | |
My teaching: in the past I have been a facilitator of study skills, a teacher and facilitator of using Information Communications Technology, and a teacher of literacy. This is as well as having a background in Sociology and social science as well as theology. So my input into teaching and learning is coloured by this experience. |