How this guide can help you deliver AQA Media Studies GCSE
- The purpose of this teacher guide is to offer insight into the thinking behind these lessons – how the learning links to the QCA core media framework and QCA learning objectives.
- To create a SOW please cut and paste this guide from this page onto your school documentation
- In addition, there it also now thoughts as to how this material has been used and adapted in different centres by different teachers and how it has shown itself to be relevant to the examinations thus far set by AQA
- The key is the slide resource. This guidance suggests how the slide resource can be edited for groups according to ability/pace/progress/capacity
- The assumption of all the new specification Edusites units is that the slide resource and the teaching guide are interlinked – that any confusion with one may be resolved by reading it in conjunction with the other
The purpose of this unit is not to tell anyone ‘what you must do’ or ‘this is the way that you must do it’. The work here is based on over twenty years of teaching media studies at A Level and KS4 in a very large [2,500 pupils] urban comprehensive in what was once described as one of the most deprived areas in the UK. It is based both on my own teaching and in leading teams of non-specialist staff, usually fresh from their teaching courses, with no media studies background. Since 2017 it has been used by a range of schools across the uk. For the 2023 specification, it has now been revised on the feedback from these centres, both the students and teachers.
The lesson resource slides of this unit contain everything necessary to teach the sessions that will prepare your students to respond to the GCSE media studies requirements of the AQA examination board, Paper 2 section A. Depending on your own levels of experience, expertise, confidence in both your teaching or in teaching…
