The Confident Teacher is a blog by teacher and author, Alex Quigley (@HuntingEnglish)

The Confident Teacher
Navigation
  • Home
  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap
  • Closing the Reading Gap
  • The Confident Teacher
  • Home School
  • Resources
  • Search
  • Home
  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap
  • Closing the Reading Gap
  • The Confident Teacher
  • Home School
  • Resources
  • Search

Tag Archive

  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

    View Post
  • Uncategorized / February 29, 2020

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

    View Post
  • Uncategorized / February 22, 2020

    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

    View Post
  • Uncategorized / May 4, 2019

    On the RISE

    View Post
  • Uncategorized / January 20, 2019

    What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

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

    Vocabulary Clinic

    View Post
  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / October 20, 2018

    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

    View Post
View Post

The Promise and Perils of ‘Book Gifting’

In Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley14/06/2020Leave a Comment

You can watch my short video on book gifting on my YouTube page, ‘Exploring Evidence in Education‘: If you cannot read, you cannot access the school curriculum and so much more beyond. …

Subscribe

Twitter @HuntingEnglish

HuntSchoolMusicHuntington Music@HuntSchoolMusic·

@matthewhood @HuntingEnglish @OakNational We loved being part of creating the Music curriculum for the first phase. We learnt so much. It has made a world of difference to our own online provision. @OakNational @matthewhood @HuntingEnglish

Reply on Twitter 1350550339519455236Retweet on Twitter 13505503395194552361Like on Twitter 1350550339519455236
matthewhoodMatt Hood@matthewhood·

I've been asked a question about quality assurance. Hopefully this thread will shed some light on how we do that at @OakNational. We think we did and continue to do a solid job but it's not perfect and we're always really grateful for feedback on how lessons can be even better.

Reply on Twitter 1350399542315855872Retweet on Twitter 135039954231585587253Like on Twitter 1350399542315855872324
HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

I loved playing a small part in this...available for pre-order now!

Reply on Twitter 1350440277794816000Retweet on Twitter 13504402777948160003Like on Twitter 13504402777948160009
Load More...

Recent Blogs

  • Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy 16/01/2021
  • A Munificent Assemblage of Verbiage (Or ‘Working Words into Writing’) 05/12/2020
  • Academic Vocabulary and Schema Building 07/11/2020
  • Do We Need to Sort Out Silent Reading? 31/10/2020
  • Is it time to KO the Knowledge Organiser? 24/10/2020

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.

THE CONFIDENT TEACHER

CLOSING THE VOCABULARY GAP


Closing the Reading Gap

Alex Quigley - 2020
  • Home
  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap
  • Closing the Reading Gap
  • The Confident Teacher
  • Home School
  • Resources
Follow

Get the latest posts delivered to your mailbox: