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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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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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Whole School Feedback Policy

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley16/05/20156 Comments

(Image based on the Education Endowment Foundation Toolkit findings) All the evidence tells us that great feedback works. Simple. Let’s do more of that and all of our students will gain…easy! And …

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Questioning and Feedback: Top Ten Strategies

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley19/11/201416 Comments

As part of our whole staff training at Huntington School we have been sharing ideas and collating ‘Top Ten Strategies’. This list is the fruits of our labour: 1. Differentiated questioning. Given the …

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One-to-one Feedback & Testing What Works

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley17/10/201311 Comments

Feedback has always been all the rage! In all my years of teaching I think I know instinctively the things that make the difference to learning. Once such tipping points of learning …

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Explanations: Top 10 Teaching Tips

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley11/05/20136 Comments

“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and …

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Questioning and Oral Feedback – Our ‘Bread & Butter’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley20/02/20131 Comment

A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure to present to the staff of my school for just over an hour on teaching and learning. My session, in the main hall, …

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Make your ‘Marking Policy’ a ‘Feedback Policy’

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley09/02/201313 Comments

Marking workload getting on top of you? Many schools, and departments, have been reflecting about their marking policies ever since OFSTED declared more than a healthy interest in scrutinising books. Progress over …

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Oral Formative Feedback – Top 10 Strategies

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley03/11/201211 Comments

Quite simply, effective teaching hinges on oral formative feedback and questioning on a lesson by lesson basis. It appears to me that the greatest benefit of experience that I observe in excellent teachers is …

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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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