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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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Spelling Test Support – Advice for Parents (and Teachers)

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley01/04/20177 Comments

It is an act repeated the world over: children trundle home with their spelling lists to learn and parents dutifully help them prepare for the dreaded spelling test at the end of …

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The Revision ‘Collection’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley11/03/20173 Comments

Each year we are all faced with the nerve-shredding, tolerance-stretching spell that is revision. It never seems to get any easier. Each group of students proves a unique, gnarly challenge as we …

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Eat, Sleep, Revise, Repeat

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley01/03/2017Leave a Comment

I wrote this article for Teach Secondary (You can sign up to subscribe HERE) on the ‘science of revision’ over a year ago, but the advice still stands up well: We can …

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Remembering Quotations – 10 Strategies

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley03/12/20163 Comments

I don’t think there are many English teachers who haven’t asked the following question in the last year: ‘how do I help my class better remember quotations?’ It is an age-old question, …

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Memory for Learning: 10 Top Tips

In The Confident Teacher, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley01/10/20165 Comments

We can all imagine our own personal hell of terminal exams, stacked on top of one another, with acres of knowledge to remember. It is the stuff of sleepless nights, for teachers and …

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The Trick of Teaching

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley31/05/201510 Comments

We know a great deal about the human memory, but there is still so much more to know. Much of what we learn is counterintuitive and unveils the idiosyncratic of our mind and memory. …

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Effective Revision Strategies

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley07/04/20139 Comments

There is a lot of cognitive science research that proves what revision strategies work best for embedding information into the long term memory – which is our goal in relation to exam …

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HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

Education after a national crisis: "Be positive, radical and pay for it".

Like the post-war consensus, investing in growth and education surely has to be the aim for the next decade. Interesting to compare UK to Biden's educational spend too - radical indeed.

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Join us in speaking to Dr Jessie Ricketts @ricketts_lara, researcher at Royal Holloway, on the importance of reading, oracy and vocabulary in language development. This Tuesday at 4pm. Sign up free at: http://bit.ly/GreenshawR45

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'Do we need to sort out silent reading?'

A relevant question post-lockdown. Reading, listening, and book talk will be hugely valuable. Maximising this time will matter.

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2020/10/do-we-need-to-sort-out-silent-reading/

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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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