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The Key to Success: Deliberate Practice or our Genes?

In Debates and Polemics, Evidence in Education by Alex Quigley31/07/201421 Comments

Wayne Rooney, aged 16, scoring an iconic goal against Arsenal. Genius derived from genes? Or does practice make perfect? Most young boys grow up in Liverpool playing football and little …

Alex Quigley

I am Director of Huntington Research School, York. I am also a Research School Developer for the EEF, supporting research schools in the north of England.

When I am not doing research school work, I can be found teaching English as well writing edubooks and articles for TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

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  • Spelling: Avoiding Ignorance and Negligence 13/05/2018
  • When Incoherence and Compliance Trump Curriculum  05/05/2018
  • The Makings of Metacognition 28/04/2018
  • Unwrapping the Mystery of Metacognition 27/04/2018
  • 5 Vocabulary Teaching Myths 21/04/2018

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  • On being predictable. 8 things you’ll see in most of my lessons and the 4 principles which underpin them. (Part 1/6) – Walden Education on Thinking Hard…and Why We Avoid It
  • Addy Brown on When Incoherence and Compliance Trump Curriculum 
  • Alphabetical Signposts To Teacher Excellence – F – Teach innovate reflect on The Feedback ‘Collection’
  • Nozima Mirkhujayeva on The Trick of Teaching
  • Alison Drayton on The ‘Reading Gap’ between Primary and Secondary School

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helenbarker79Helen Barker@helenbarker79·

Just finished this great read. Can’t wait to hear ⁦@HuntingEnglish⁩ at the ⁦@KyraResearch⁩ conference next week.

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HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

Tomorrow I'll be speaking at #EducationFest. At 12.20, I will be in the Chapel talking about 'Closing the Vocabulary Gap', then at 2.30 I'll be talking about metacognition in the classroom for the @researchED1 strand at the Great School. Stop by & say hello!

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daisychristoDaisy Christodoulou@daisychristo·

My latest TES column. Summarises a really interesting 2010 paper which showed that pupils who studied by answering quite basic closed questions ended up performing better on a more complex task. https://t.co/S4ZNroZj9v

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Alex Quigley

I am Director of Huntington Research School, York. I am also a Research School Developer for the EEF, supporting research schools in the north of England.

When I am not doing research school work, I can be found teaching English, as well as writing edubooks and articles for 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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