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Cracking the Academic Code

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley24/02/20187 Comments

(This article was first published in Teach Secondary Magazine. You can subscribe HERE) How could a group of crossword puzzle champions save the world? Such a startling question has a very British …

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KLMorgan_2Kathryn Morgan@KLMorgan_2·

Super excited to be delivering this session on Thursday 11th Feb (7-8pm) with not only the wonderful @overpractised but also the wonderful @HFletcherWood. So if you’re interested in deliberate practice then get yourself a ticket below👇🏻 https://twitter.com/brewedclee/status/1355814119371403269

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HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

Just catching up on the @thetimes article on scrapping GCSEs.

It is worthy of debate, but there is always too much confidence that scrapping key tenets of school system will be replaced by better. Exams are problematic, but so are all the alternatives!

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2020/08/transform-education-and-assessment-just-not-yet/

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HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

‘5 Things I Wish I’d Known about Literacy’

So much of literacy - reading, writing, listening, vocabulary development - is wrongly assumed to be natural and innate for too many pupils.

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2021/01/five-things-i-wish-id-known-about-literacy/

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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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