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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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Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley22/02/20204 Comments

“Curriculum development must rest on teacher development”  Lawrence Stenhouse, ‘An Introduction to Curriculum Research and Development’ Paying attention to the careful, skilled development of your curriculum is essential business for every school. …

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My TES Articles

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I have had the pleasure of writing some articles for the TES recently. I wanted to create a running record for myself so that I had access to the electronic versions of …

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On Teaching Grammar

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley11/06/20144 Comments

I was drawn to teaching English for a whole host of reasons. Primarily, it was due to a deep love for the nourishing power of literature and stories. It was because the …

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Moving Beyond National Curriculum Levels

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley06/12/201319 Comments

A fair few months ago the government announced the end of KS3 levels. Only there has been little real change – to my knowledge – in the status quo because schools are …

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kirsten_mouldKirsten Mould@kirsten_mould·

Teaching SEL strategies explicitly is the first recommendation from @EducEndowFoundn guidance. @TownEndResearch have produced these helpful resources...https://d10a08pz293654.cloudfront.net/documents/SEL-reading-strategies.pdf?mtime=20210119190104&focal=none

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*WEEKEND POST*

“Put simply, the better your handwriting – and the more automatic – the more you can focus your mental energy on picking the right words, playing with sentence structures, and much more.”

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2021/01/should-we-worry-about-handwriting/

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HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

Excellent article from the brilliant @margaretmckeow2, Isabel Beck & Linda Kucan:

"Taking Delight in Words'

https://www.aft.org/periodical/american-educator/spring-2003/taking-delight-words via @aftunion

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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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