Psychology AS – The Complete Companion for AQA ‘A’
Authors: Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan
ISBN: 978-185008288X
Comprehensively re-designed to meet the needs of the brand new 2008 AQA/A specifications, this book contains all of the features that teachers and students value so much plus a host of new features to underpin the delivery of the new course. Written by leading Psychology authors, Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan, the textbook is more of a companion to students than ever before and is designed to make student progression through the AQA/A course as stimulating and enjoyable as possible.
The Complete Companions blend together the content and skills that are needed to perform well in the new exam – making it easy for teachers to prepare students for the new AS and A2 exams and boosting students’ grades by combining great psychology with unparalleled support for effective exam performance.
Psychology A2 – The Complete Companion for AQA ‘A’
Authors: Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan
ISBN: 978-1850082897
Comprehensively re-designed to meet the needs of the brand new 2008 AQA/A specifications, this book contains all of the features that teachers and students value so much plus a host of new features to underpin the delivery of the new course. Written by leading Psychology authors, Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan, the textbook is more of a companion to students than ever before and is designed to make student progression through the AQA/A course as stimulating and enjoyable as possible.
The Complete Companions blend together the content and skills that are needed to perform well in the new exam – making it easy for teachers to prepare students for the new AS and A2 exams and boosting students’ grades by combining great psychology with unparalleled support for effective exam performance.
Psychology AS – The Complete Companion for WJEC
Author(s): Cara Flanagan, Lucy Hartnoll, Rhiannon Murray
ISBN: 978-1850084402
The Complete Companion for WJEC AS Student Book follows the same approach of the best-selling AQA textbook but is tailored precisely to meet the needs of the WJEC AS specification and exam. Written by a leading team of authors (including two senior examiners from a major awarding body) the textbook makes progression through the A Level course as stimulating and enjoyable as possible. The content is organised into magazine-style colourful and highly illustrated double-page spreads that equate to a double lesson’s worth of material, whilst a special focus on research methods, reflects the importance of this topic in the new exam. An emphasis on ‘psychology in action’ encourages students to consider wider applications and implications of psychological theory and research and revision-friendly features such as diagrammatic summaries and sample exam questions, aid student’s understanding.
Psychology AS – The Teacher’s Companion
Authors: Michael Griffin and Cath Gellis, Editor: Cara Flanagan
ISBN: 978-1850082958
The Teacher’s Companion is in a special ‘lay-flat’ book and CD-ROM format providing a range of print and digital activities and resources to help teachers and their students prepare for the new AS examinations. Provides an invaluable assortment of tried and tested resources for teachers to use in planning and delivering lessons.
numerous ready-to-use ‘starter’ activities to help introduce topics
- further activities that provide material and ideas for teaching a topic
- a bank of general lesson ideas that can be applied across the specification
- lesson plans and strategies for dealing with common problems such as elaboration and evaluations skills, note making and self/peer assessment
- practical teacher notes about the different activities, their rationale and how they might be further developed
- clearly identifiable symbols to highlight the potential for differentiation and provision for different learning styles
- a CD-ROM that includes all the handouts in customisable Microsoft Word® format and the entire book in electronic PDF format
CD-ROMs include a one site licence. For multiple site VLEs, please ask for details.
Psychology AS – The Teacher’s Companion
Authors: Michael Griffin and Cath Gellis, Editor: Cara Flanagan
ISBN: 978-1850083962
The Teacher’s Companion is in a special layflat book and CD-ROM format providing a range of print and digital activities and resources to help teachers and their students prepare for the new A2 examinations. Provides an invaluable assortment of tried and tested resources for teachers to use in planning and delivering lessons.
- numerous ready-to-use ‘starter’ activities to help introduce topics
- further activities that provide material and ideas for teaching a topic
- a bank of general lesson ideas that can be applied across the specification
- lesson plans and strategies for dealing with common problems such as elaboration and evaluations skills, note making and self/peer assessment
- practical teacher notes about the different activities, their rationale and how they might be further developed
- clearly identifiable symbols to highlight the potential for differentiation and provision for different learning styles
- a CD-ROM that includes all the handouts in customisable Microsoft Word® format and the entire book in electronic PDF format
Psychology AS – The Mini Companion for AQA ‘A’
Authors: Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan
ISBN: 978-1850085492
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The Mini Companion reduces each spread in The Complete Companion textbook to a single accessible page of essential knowledge. All the facts students need to know for their exams in an inexpensive and portable little book!
This study and revision resource…
- Covers the whole course in 80 paperback-sized pages.
- Helps students get straight to the point in understanding each topic.
- Covers the minimum amount of information required to do well on the examination.
- Provides a lesson-by-lesson summary as students work through the course.
- Cover one page per specification topic.
- Provides clear and reassuring support as an end-of-course revision aid.
Psychology AS – The Visual Companion for AQA ‘A’
Authors: Mike Cardwell and Cara Flanagan
ISBN: 978-1850085485
A unique and revolutionary study and revision book for Psychology students, The Visual Companion takes a highly visual approach to presenting underpinning knowledge, reflecting the importance of the visual teaching and learning style for both lesson delivery and students’ study and revision. Students learn using a variety of different styles – visual, auditory and kinaesthetic – and this book reenforces key points of learning in a visually memorable and motivating style. In short, it helps students to ‘see the big picture’!
- Each spread is different and memorable, aiding the recall of key information.
- Each topic is displayed visually on a colourful, highly-illustrated double-page spread.
- Supports study during the course as well as revision for the final exams.
- Makes study less onerous, motivating students to learn.
Psychology AS – The Digital Companion for AQA ‘A’
Authors: Evie Bentley and Jean-Marc Lawton, Editor: Cara Flanagan
ISBN: 978-1850083948
Sample content available on Folens blog
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A diverse range of digital activities that are perfect for supporting the textbook and reinforcing key points of learning for all topics in the AQA’A’ specification.
- A varied mix of interactive activities.
- Multiple-choice knowledge-check quizzes for every topic.
- Class-voting activities to help reinforce understanding of key points.
- Animated demonstrations.
- Customisable PowerPoint presentations for starter or plenary use.
- CD-ROMs include a one site licence. For multiple site VLEs, please ask for details.