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    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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

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    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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    What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

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

    Vocabulary Clinic

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    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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10 New School Year Resolutions

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley03/09/201612 Comments

School starts again on Monday for me and so it is an appropriate time to procrastinate…sorry, I mean plan for the year ahead. Now, I know that the best laid plans of …

Uncategorized / February 27, 2016

Thinking Hard… Practical Solutions for the Classroom

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'Reading on Screen: A Warning!

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2020/07/reading-on-screen-a-warning/

Does it matter that pupils are reading on screens? Should we chuck out traditional textbooks and similar?

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'Using poetry to teach the perfect essay plan' by @elucymay for #TENConline

This is the second brilliant presentation from Elisabeth I have watched in a fortnight. A great watch for English teachers.

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'The Hidden Lives of Learners and Me'

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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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