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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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

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    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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    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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The Key to Success: Deliberate Practice or our Genes?

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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 else. I …

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@EducEndowFoundn @tes Although, as @HuntingEnglish asked in a piece for @tes - how many trained teachers can deliver an intensive, well-planned summer programme when “many are on their knees after the workload driven by the lockdown”. This was last June…https://www.tes.com/news/will-summer-schools-actually-work

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How can pupils be supported to form effective habits during partial school closures?

That's the question @kirsten_mould, EEF learning behaviours specialist and secondary school SENCo, tackles in this blog.

Read here: https://bit.ly/3qlNJqe

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EEF BLOG: What learning should we be promoting for home during school closures?

"If we follow some key principles for teaching and learning, we can be more hopeful that the work we set can support children more effectively."

Read NOW: https://bit.ly/3dWaavX

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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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