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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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    We are ‘Doing Curriculum’ – so what are we stopping?

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    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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    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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    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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ResearchEd York 2016 – Get Your Tickets!

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley27/01/20161 Comment

It is coming back… after the success of ResearchEd York at Huntington School back in 2013, we are delighted to welcome ResearchEd back on Saturday the 9th of July, 2016. We are …

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The Problem with Journal Access for Teachers

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley10/01/20159 Comments

I have a dream of a teaching profession that has a potent profession voice and that is truly self-improving. It would be so laden with prestige that politicians wouldn’t even dare to …

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Good literacy skills underpin all other aspects of learning – find out how to embed them successfully at Key Stage 1 with the updated EEF guidance report.

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What is your school literacy focus: reading, vocabulary, structured talk, or writing?

NEW POST: ‘Covid-19 and the Literacy ‘Matthew Effect’

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2020/09/covid-19-and-the-literacy-matthew-effect/

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A comprehensive and helpful account of explicit instruction from @Tom_Needham_.

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the EEF, supporting teachers to access research evidence. After over fifteen years in the classroom, I now support from outside the school gates.

I write edubooks and 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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