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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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What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley20/01/2019Leave a Comment

Recently, I published a blog on the EEF website on a ‘knowledge rich’ curriculum – you can find it here. I have republished it on my website for regular readers. A New Year’s Prediction: 2019 will be The Year of Curriculum.  …

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When Incoherence and Compliance Trump Curriculum 

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley05/05/20185 Comments

How do children learn best? It is a complex question isn’t it. It is striking that as teachers we may be knee-deep in our pupils learning for most of the working week …

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The Problem with Judging Teacher Performance

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley25/11/20173 Comments

We don’t grade lessons anymore, right?   That would be foolish, wouldn’t it. Back in 2013, Professor Rob Coe made a challenge to the teaching profession and OFSTED. He proved that judging …

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Regrets? I’ve had a few…

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley11/11/20172 Comments

The only guarantee you get from the job of teaching is that you will learn and fail. The trick – well, doing a little more learning than failing, whilst trying to learn …

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The Feedback ‘Collection’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley25/03/20174 Comments

Since 2012, I have written numerous posts about feedback and marking. This is no surprise given our school system has been seemingly addicted to making ‘progress’ visible, with feedback becoming a quick …

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The Teacher Workload ‘Collection’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley15/03/20171 Comment

This last month, the Department for Education, the teaching unions and OFSTED united. Yes, you heard me right. The topic that saw this unique collaboration: teacher workload. The recruitment and retention issue …

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OFSTED: Signs of Improvement

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley08/03/20173 Comments

The news about education this week has been filled with the reemergence of Grammar Schools and the rightful concern about the stresses and strains of school budgets. Flat cash is proving more …

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The OFSTED Marking Myth

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley26/11/20163 Comments

Some habits are hard to shift and some myths are difficult to bust. Arguably, over the last five years or so, excessive marking has become the biggest workload burden on teachers. The kernel …

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Going Beyond Gifted and Talented

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley06/11/20164 Comments

(Image via Geniussis) I can picture the scene. I arrive home from work to be greeted by my young daughter. The end of the summer holidays hasn’t dimmed her enthusiasm; she has been …

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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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