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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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The Makings of Metacognition

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley28/04/20185 Comments

In a couple of weeks, year 6 pupils will be sitting down to SATs examinations and in secondary schools, A Level and GCSE exams will start in earnest. Teachers everywhere are concentrating …

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Why I Hate Highlighters!

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley17/01/201532 Comments

As an English teacher I am surely granted the eternal power of an exaggeration fueled headline every once in a while. Ok – so perhaps highlighters aren’t the biggest problem in education, …

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Making the Learning Leap: KS4 to KS5

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley23/08/20131 Comment

(Apologies if you we’re expecting an album full of images that have students leaping holding their GCSE certificates – I think we have had enough of those this week!) In the midst …

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All of a sudden, the concept made perfect sense. Excitedly, he shared the post for others to read. Before long, the fuss subsided. Decidedly unimpressed, the children just got on with it. https://twitter.com/HuntingEnglish/status/1351221431296733193

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*NEW POST*

'Flipping Fronted Adverbials'

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@HuntingEnglish @C_Hendrick This is my pertinent post about how NOT to encourage the use of dictionaries... https://johntomsett.com/2018/07/13/this-much-i-know-about-an-inept-attempt-to-improve-students-literacy-skills/

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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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