Differential educational achievement quiz

Who does better in school? Boys or girls?

Girls Girls do better than boys at every level of school including SATS, GCSEs and A-levels By the end of secondary school girls are on average 7 years ahead of boys in their educational attainment

Which social class achieves more highly in education? Upper class Middle class Working class

Upper and middle class children generally do much better in school than working class children. 94% of 15 yr olds= 5+ GCSE C+ (affluent areas) 24% of 15 yr olds= 5+ GCSE C+ (deprived areas) Challenge- Do you think this always has to be the case? How could this pattern be stopped?

Ethnicity can greatly influence your achievement in education- TRUE OR FALSE?

Challenge- Can you come up with an explanation for why this could be? TRUE Different ethnic groups achieve very differently throughout their education- some achieve highly and other groups struggle. Challenge- Can you come up with an explanation for why this could be?

Which ethnic group achieves most in education?

Indian students are next best with 72% A*-C at GCSE for girls Chinese and Indian Chinese students achieve the best in education - particularly girls who get 79% A*-C at GCSE Indian students are next best with 72% A*-C at GCSE for girls Challenge- What would make these students do well in their education?

Which ethnic group generally does worst in their education?

Black Caribbean (boys) and Black African These ethnic groups achieve amongst the lowest % GCSE grades of all groups and along with Pakistani and Bangladeshi students are under-represented in university Challenge: What could we do to stop these groups underachieving?

Introduction to educational reforms L.O: All will be able to explain how the British education system has changed over the last 150 years and why the changes were introduced Starter: Work on your own in complete silence. Complete as many questions on the worksheet as you can. You will then swap your sheet with someone else who will mark your answers. 10 Mins

Answers 84 bricks crawled, trudged, trotted, galloped, raced Whom The island of Skokholm Rome Give a mark out of 5 and return the worksheet.

So what? Well, if you had been around between 1944 and 1965, at the age of 11 you would have sat a test full of questions like these. It was a test designed to measure your intelligence – natural intellectual ability. Depending on how well you did in the test, you would end up going to one of three types of school: Grammar – 5 correct answers Secondary modern – 4-3 correct answers Technical – 0-3 correct answers Do such tests still exist today? Class discussion

Educational reforms Educational reform means the laws passed by the government to change the education system. It can also be referred to as educational policies. Students take down notes

Task 1 Marketplace Work in groups of 3. 20 Mins Marketplace Work in groups of 3. Each group will be given information sheets about a different educational reform. Read the sheet and decide which is the relevant information to be included into your poster. Allocate a task to each member, e.g. selecting the information, writing, images, captions for the images. Make a poster for the class about the educational reform. You have 20 minutes so each member of the group has to be working simultaneously.

Task 2 5 Mins Fill in the worksheet with information from your poster. You have 5 minutes. Choose one member of your group to be the ‘seller’ – this person needs to have excellent presentational skills. The remaining 3 members of the group will be the ‘buyers’. The ‘seller’ has to stay with your poster and ‘sell’ your knowledge to ‘buyers’ from other groups. The ‘buyers’ have to go to the other groups to ‘buy’ their knowledge – listen to the ‘seller’s’ explanation and fill in the worksheet. You have 15 minutes.

Task 3 15 Mins The ‘buyers’ have to return to their original groups and take turns to explain what they found out. You must explain, not just let them copy your notes! Everyone else has to fill in the worksheet. You have 15 minutes.

Forster Education Act – introduced elementary schools Home learning Draw a timeline to show all the reforms from 1870 to 1997. Include the name of the reform and the changes it introduced. Due – Next Tuesday Example: 1870 Forster Education Act – introduced elementary schools