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

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

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley29/02/20203 Comments

“From the teachers’ perspective, the education system is “noisy”: Teachers are surrounded by multiple and conflicting messages about what is most important to do. Furthermore, if they focus too much on any …

View Post

The Problem with Pleasing Parents

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley10/03/20187 Comments

Every teacher and school leader wants to please the parents of their school children. And quite right too. From a warm conversation at parents evening, to a celebratory phone call, it can …

View Post

The Truth About Homework

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley21/01/20186 Comments

“Most homework teachers set is crap.” Dylan Wiliam, ResearchEd 2014. The subject of homework inspires strong opinions. Teachers, parents and students themselves all have a view on the matter and those views …

View Post

The Homework Debate – Teach Secondary Article

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley19/04/20151 Comment

I wrote this article for the November edition of Teach Secondary Magazine. In the meantime, the topic, and the debate, simply refuses to go away. My short answer on the usefulness of …

View Post

What’s the Point of Homework?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley30/08/20122 Comments

Any teacher worth their salt should always ask ‘why’ and know what impact their teaching has upon the learning of their students. Why then do we continue to revere the sacred cow …

Subscribe

Twitter @HuntingEnglish

MrAncelottiCarlo Ancelotti@MrAncelotti·

This game is dedicated to the Everton Fans. You have been patient and now we celebrate together. #COYB

2
Reply on Twitter 1363216820753358858Retweet on Twitter 13632168207533588584825Like on Twitter 136321682075335885844916
HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

Reply on Twitter 1363208540610048004Retweet on Twitter 13632085406100480041Like on Twitter 13632085406100480041
HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

Reply on Twitter 1363208375782281222Retweet on Twitter 13632083757822812221Like on Twitter 13632083757822812225
Load More...

Recent Blogs

  • Should we worry about handwriting? 23/01/2021
  • Flipping Fronted Adverbials 18/01/2021
  • Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy 16/01/2021
  • Working Words into Writing 05/12/2020
  • Academic Vocabulary and Schema Building 07/11/2020

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: