Teaching Relationships – Filter Theory
Singles Night Match-Making Relevant for A-Level When I was first choosing which optional topics to teach for the Unit 3 paper, a couple of topics stood out as potentially being student favourites – relationships and forensics. Students are always fascinated by how and why relationships form (and fall apart), as well as the idea of studying criminals. At face value, these topics are easily applicable to students’ lives; relationships are an important part of their lives, and making sense of the make-ups and break-ups is an appealing and useful application of knowledge. Hopefully they haven’t been criminals, but they love documentaries about them, and unfortunately the world we live in means that crimes are more at the forefront of their minds than for previous generations. However, when I started teaching the relationships topic (which I hadn’t on the old specification), I felt that some of the theories were a bit dry and students had a tendency to mix up the concepts from diffe