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When Prophecies Fail and Evidence Backfires

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley18/03/2017Leave a Comment

“A man with conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him your facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic …

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Lovely response to @WALKTHRUs_5 Vol 2 so far. Check out the 52 new WalkThrus, 10 guest authors - including @benniekara on diversifying curriculum, @ollie_lovell's ABCDE of CTL and @HuntingEnglish's four reading strategies. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1913622479/

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I reckon meaningful & manageable curriculum development needs a clear language to support it. I reckon we should take a razor to a lot of extraneous terms for it to prove workable. I’d choose to include a maximum 4 of the 9 terms cited here by @johntomsett. @MaryMyatt

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HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

*NEW*

'Does reading *really* matter in mathematics?'

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2021/04/does-reading-really-matter-in-mathematics/

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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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