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    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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

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Boring but Important

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley18/02/20173 Comments

Some words in education can spark off a shooting match. I offer two such words: ‘boring‘ and ‘engagement‘. Should teaching and learning be boring? Is it is sign of failure? Should engagement …

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"with many secondary schools having moved to a system of bubbles..with teachers moving between classrooms and areas, the natural confines of a classroom or department area that delineate our fiefdoms have disappeared over night. For some staff..this is a source of great anxiety." https://twitter.com/shaun_allison/status/1305790814078078976

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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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