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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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School Improvement – The Dave Brailsford Model

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley05/02/20132 Comments

Today there is a great article on the BBC website about the inexorable progress of the Sky cycling team under the expert stewardship of Dave Brailsford – see here. The ‘aggregation of …

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Switch and Self-improvement in Schools

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley30/12/20123 Comments

As a teacher I am always looking to take on the Sisyphean task of changing the habits of my students to make them better learners. What I have also realised as a …

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Questioning – Top Ten Strategies

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley10/11/201234 Comments

  “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein Questioning is the very cornerstone of philosophy and education, ever since …

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Questioning & Feedback – Making Marginal Gains

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My most recent post on #marginalgains was an attempt to move my thinking forward and explore what I view as the most important marginal gains for my teaching, as well as exploring …

Crafting and Drafting – Creating a Culture of Excellence

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Firstly, may I say that this post is directly inspired by Ron Berger’s book, ‘An Ethic of Excellence: Building A Craftsmanship with Students’ and ideas related to the concept of #marginalgains. My …

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Using ‘Marginal Gains’ for Self-Assessment (with useful resources)

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley25/09/20122 Comments

Today I got to properly embed the concept of #marginalgains into my practice as an effective self-assessment tool. After the fantastic spectacle of the London Olympics I was determined to utilise the …

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Student Learning Using ‘The Aggregation of Marginal Gains’ Model

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After watching ‘Road to Glory’, about the inexorable progress of the Sky Pro Cycling team, it foregrounded the mantra of “The Aggregation of Marginal Gains” that is at the core of David …

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teacherheadTom Sherrington@teacherhead·

Engineering Success. A positive alternative to generic mindset messaging https://teacherhead.com/2019/06/01/engineering-success-a-positive-alternative-to-generic-mindset-messaging/

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There is consistent evidence now of the crucial role of turn-taking and early vocabulary development. Rich early language is so crucial.

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DTWillinghamDaniel Willingham@DTWillingham·

New meta-analysis on parental speech & child language (aka 30 million word gap) concludes that complexity (syntactic variety & vocab diversity) is a better predictor than word volume ($) https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13508?campaign=wolearlyview

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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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