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    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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    What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

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

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    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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Breaking Beyond Our Old Ideas

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley05/03/2016Leave a Comment

  “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify … into every corner of our minds.” John Maynard Keynes    Knowledge is power, …

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I had to send a prospective client an overview of my Dual Coding day course, and remembered that I had already created this Flow Spray based on the main principles and quotes.

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We are delighted to announce the first three speakers in AUSPELD’s Talking Literacy webinar series! The first conversation with @C_Hendrick will be released at 3:00pm WST/5:00pm EST on Tue 22 Sep.

To register for this free series, go to: https://auspeld.org.au/events/talking-literacy/

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How can new teachers develop an effective ‘classroom choreography’ with TAs? A great read. https://twitter.com/nataliepacker/status/1306323159461830657

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the EEF, supporting teachers to access research evidence. After over fifteen years in the classroom, I now support from outside the school gates.

I write edubooks and 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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