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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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  • Uncategorized / February 29, 2020

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

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  • Uncategorized / February 22, 2020

    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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  • Uncategorized / May 4, 2019

    On the RISE

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  • Uncategorized / January 20, 2019

    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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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / October 20, 2018

    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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Tricky Texts and the ‘Arduous Eight’

In Closing the Reading Gap by Alex Quigley25/04/2020Leave a Comment

When it comes to reading, teachers are a little like Goldilocks. When it comes to spotting difficult texts – whether it is the class reader in year 5, or a maths word …

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How much should you write in English exams?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley06/01/20182 Comments

“This porridge is too hot!” she exclaimed. So, she tasted the porridge from the second bowl. “This porridge is too cold,” she said So, she tasted the last bowl of porridge. “Ahhh, …

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The Problem with Past Exam Papers

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley08/04/201713 Comments

Over the weekend I had the joy of watching my little boy, Noah, play one of his football matches (there was a little pain too – just don’t mention the penalty). If …

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Eat, Sleep, Revise, Repeat

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley01/03/2017Leave a Comment

I wrote this article for Teach Secondary (You can sign up to subscribe HERE) on the ‘science of revision’ over a year ago, but the advice still stands up well: We can …

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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 …

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Beyond National Curriculum Levels: One Year On

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley27/06/20155 Comments

Let me recall a tale of two Parents’ Evenings. My colleague attended the usual fare at his son’s primary school and he learnt that his son was working at a level 1a in …

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They Think It’s All Over…

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley03/06/20144 Comments

The English Exam is Over! So the GCSE English Language exam has been and gone for another year. A wet and nondescript June morning welcomed the annual parade of stress, tiredness and …

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Whose Canon is it Anyway?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley27/05/20147 Comments

Few things in education are as spectacularly emotive and ire-inducing as the choice of books we read for English Literature in schools. This last week we have seen Gove receive a full-frontal …

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Dropping Your Tools and Avoiding Education Gimmicks

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley06/12/20133 Comments

Do teachers and school leaders need to down tools to survive and succeed? Schools are incredibly complex places. We often use analogies that compare schools, and indeed the classroom, to emergency scenarios. …

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A Brave New Dawn for English GCSEs: Some Questions

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley02/11/201316 Comments

So the cat is out the bag. Old school terminal exams are here to stay. There is an end to coursework and its bastard love child – controlled assessments. Speaking & listening …

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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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'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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