Media Teacher

With one A level Media exam completed and just one more to go, many of my own students are now focusing on a question that often stumps them (and occasionally, me too): how do you evaluate media theories and theorists? It's not enough to simply explain what a theorist says. Examiners want to see that you can discuss strengths, weaknesses, relevance and limitations, applying ideas to the set texts you have studied. That's exactly why I've added support materials in The Common Room - the...

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything like this. Not because I haven’t wanted to but because, like most teachers, the term has had other plans. Lessons, coursework, emails, marking… and suddenly we’re here: February half term. The halfway point of the academic year. And there’s something about that that feels worth pausing for. The Middle Is Always the Hardest Part As a Media Studies teacher, this is the point in the year where everything starts to feel a little heavier. Students are...

Day 8 back at school and already a student has uttered the ultimate Media Studies phrase: “Miss, I can’t watch things in the same way...