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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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‘Making the Learning Visible’ – Using Multiple Whiteboards in the Classroom

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley17/11/20125 Comments

This year our English and Media faculty are undertaking a coaching programme as part of our constant quest to keep getting better. We were lucky enough to have our ugly, ramshackle classrooms …

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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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Oral Formative Feedback – Top 10 Strategies

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Quite simply, effective teaching hinges on oral formative feedback and questioning on a lesson by lesson basis. It appears to me that the greatest benefit of experience that I observe in excellent teachers is …

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The Three Fs of Technology: Flexible, Familiar, Frequent

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The idea of students sitting in front of PCs learning how to use Word is as dead as the proverbial dead parrot. It is already an antiquated model of learning and technology …

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Questioning & Feedback – Making Marginal Gains

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My most recent post on #marginalgains was an attempt to move my thinking forward and explore what I view as the most important marginal gains for my teaching, as well as exploring …

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A Taste of Berger: Reading ‘An Ethic of Excellence’

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Reading Ron Berger’s ‘An Ethic of Excellence’ should not be undertaken in the hubbub of morning buses or busy trains, nor it the middle of a lively office – it should be …

Crafting and Drafting – Creating a Culture of Excellence

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Firstly, may I say that this post is directly inspired by Ron Berger’s book, ‘An Ethic of Excellence: Building A Craftsmanship with Students’ and ideas related to the concept of #marginalgains. My …

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Beating the ‘October Blues’

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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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Using ‘Marginal Gains’ for Self-Assessment (with useful resources)

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Today I got to properly embed the concept of #marginalgains into my practice as an effective self-assessment tool. After the fantastic spectacle of the London Olympics I was determined to utilise the …

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Student Learning Using ‘The Aggregation of Marginal Gains’ Model

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After watching ‘Road to Glory’, about the inexorable progress of the Sky Pro Cycling team, it foregrounded the mantra of “The Aggregation of Marginal Gains” that is at the core of David …

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HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

Final word on grammar debate: I wish I was taught grammar at school; I wish teachers were offered high quality training on teaching it.

I’m not going to say any more on adverbials or similar for now - one more letter to a headteacher at this time would be one too many.

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jlhough91_leeJohn Hough@jlhough91_lee·

Simple resource that combines the best of Cornell notes with Reciprocal Reading @HuntingEnglish. We use this frequently, from Y7 to Y11, to support reading and noting taking, leading to writing. Inspired by @atharby blog about reacquainting reading and writing in the classroom.

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*WEEKEND POST*

“Put simply, the better your handwriting – and the more automatic – the more you can focus your mental energy on picking the right words, playing with sentence structures, and much more.”

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2021/01/should-we-worry-about-handwriting/

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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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