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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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  • Uncategorized / February 29, 2020

    We are ‘Doing Curriculum’ – so what are we stopping?

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  • Uncategorized / February 22, 2020

    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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  • Uncategorized / May 4, 2019

    On the RISE

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  • Uncategorized / January 20, 2019

    What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Resources / October 20, 2018

    Vocabulary Clinic

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / October 20, 2018

    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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Overcoming the ‘OK Plateau’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley27/04/20133 Comments

Leap over you professional plateau. (This post is a copy of my article for the Guardian Teacher network) I’m a huge football fan and I always have been since my father took …

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Shared Writing: Modelling Mastery

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley19/03/20134 Comments

If the path of repeated deliberate practice makes something like perfect, then imitating good models of writing provides solid foundations for the pursuit of writing excellence. ‘Shared writing‘ is one specific strategy …

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Becoming a Better Teacher by ‘Deliberate Practice’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley03/03/201322 Comments

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Bruce Lee When I was a young boy I …

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Questioning and Oral Feedback – Our ‘Bread & Butter’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley20/02/20131 Comment

A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure to present to the staff of my school for just over an hour on teaching and learning. My session, in the main hall, …

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‘The Power of Habit’ – Helping Students Master their Habits

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley01/12/20122 Comments

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,” William James Over the summer I read the excellent book, ‘The Power of Habit‘, by Charles …

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Confidence – The Rosetta Stone of Teaching

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Nearly a decade ago I began teaching English (not very well if I remember). I was a startled rabbit of the most baffled kind. Each morning I would quietly take ‘Rescue Remedy’ …

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Questioning – Top Ten Strategies

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley10/11/201234 Comments

  “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein Questioning is the very cornerstone of philosophy and education, ever since …

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Beating the ‘October Blues’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley30/09/20121 Comment

It is over a month in, the start of term vigour and optimism has waned for almost all involved, and everything begins to feel more like hard work. The ‘October blues’ phenomenon …

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I write this blog in a personal capacity.

After fifteen years in the classroom, I now support the cause of education from the other side the school gates. For most of the week I work for the EEF, as National Content Manager, supporting teachers and school leaders to access research evidence.

Additionally, I write edubooks and offer consultancy. Also, I am very lucky to have a column for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), after fifteen years as an English teacher and school leader. The focus of my work is supporting school improvement and making research  evidence accessible and useable for teachers and school leaders.

I write books for Routledge, including the bestseller, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’. Currently, I am a columnist for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine. I am a ResearchED Trustee & a member of the Chartered College of Teaching Impact Journal board.

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