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In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley10/02/20164 Comments

Very recently I asked the question about the thorny topic of student grouping: Is it better to group students based on their prior ability, in mixed ability groupings, or something in …

Kathryn 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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Alex 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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Alex 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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