Welcome to Direct Study

	Direct Study is a specified time determined by you each week totaling 1 x 40 mins where you will complete tasks given and supervised by your teacher.
	The purpose of this aspect of the course is slightly different from normal homework.
	Homework can be very varied and often involves in RS a lot of reading and preparing for essays whereas Direct Study is geared to learning specific skills and monitored very closely by your teacher.
	In Religious Studies, we have decided to combine Direct study with teaching the skills necessary to produce really good coursework. This would seem to kill two birds with one stone!
	You will find on this site all the necessary material to download
	There are forms for you to download and fill in and either hand to your teacher of discuss with them on a strict time structure.
	You will find information to help you and various tasks to teach you how to research properly.
	Good coursework is based upon planning, thinking, reading a wide variety of sources, discussion, more thinking and then writing. Even then you will need to consider how conclusions can be drawn. Each form is geared to help you develop the various parts of good coursework.

Outline of Direct Study Planner

Session	Detail	Process	Download Form
1	Planning coursework Details from syllabus	Initial examination of area of interest	PS1
2	The topics available and making your choice List of titles available	Initial research on topics Preliminary choices	PS 1 pg 2
3	Using the Internet for research	Work based on specific internet search. Key Skill based	Y12 Assignment 1
4	Using the Library for research	Diverse use of the library Key Skill based	Y12 Assignment 2
5 - 7	Notes and research for Coursework	Investigate topics in detail notes recording data use of books/internet collation of research	PS 2 pg 1
8	Presentations of topics	Completion of initial research	PS 2 pg 2
9 - 10	Planning the essay & Writing an introduction	Detail breakdown of title for discussion with staff	PS3
11	Writing up clear and relevant knowledge	Distilling information from resources and synthesising	PS4
12	Assessing Religious Issues	Identifying central religious material and using further	PS5
13	Coping with diversity of views	Using different opinions and evaluating them	PS6
14	Arriving at conclusions	The final stages of decision making	PS7