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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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Large review of research on teacher judgment suggests that teachers tend to overestimate pupil achievement.

https://doi-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/10.1016/j.edurev.2020.100374 (£)

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Vegetables on my pancakes... no thank you! *The* classic - 'lemon and sugar' - written off as a 'nice try'...

@TeachFirst I'm as bitter as that lemon about this tweet. Half-term divisions start here!

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The Netherlands looks like an old master’s painting today 🖼⛸

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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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