QCE Legal Studies - Exam (IA1) Literacy Pack

Knowing and understanding legal concepts is one thing, but being able to apply them to evaluate contemporaneous issues is a whole different skill altogether. It's one that requires careful attention and unpacking during class time through discussion and explicit teacher modelling. If you feel like you're short on class time to do this, we can help flip instruction and win back your valuable teacher time.

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Level up students' retrieval and comprehension of cognitive verbs with these hands on, engaging lessons

• “I have, who has” - to help students memorise verbs. The hands-on nature of this lesson fosters collaboration and engagement
• “Sugarcoat your verbs” - to help students comprehend the nuances and differences between verbs. By making students apply verbs to lollies, it removes the complexities of content and activates their prior knowledge… of lollies!

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Build writing, analysis and evaluative skills with these masterclasses and lesson ideas

• Offline lessons and resources on writing - includes handouts for students, graphic organizers, word walls and exemplars. Great to do offline as a collaborative task.
• Masterclass on constructing an extended response - to help students with writing. Great to flip for students.
• Masterclass on analysing legal issues - to help students unpack the nature, scope and viewpoints of legal issues and help them express ideas in writing!  Includes fully worked examples.
• Masterclass on evaluating legal issues - to help students present alternatives to decisions, propose recommendations, justify using legal criteria and discuss implications. Includes fully worked examples.
  
  

Want a sneak peak of how we teach concepts?

• Here is a summary of how our expert teacher presenters approach the structures and roles of parliament.

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*Like most great ideas in education, these are not new. We’re not claiming them as our ideas, we’ve simply used them, relied on them, loved them, and now collated them.