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  • Education Politics and Polemics, Educational Research / September 18, 2018

    The Power of (Pushy?) Parents

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    The Makings of Metacognition

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    Unwrapping the Mystery of Metacognition

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 19, 2018

    Why Closing the Word Gap Matters

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / April 15, 2018

    Vocabulary Knowledge and the ‘Frayer Model’

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Maximising Learning about the Growing Brain

In Confident Students, Evidence in Education, Psychology and the Classroom, Research Evidence, The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley28/09/20136 Comments

My abiding memory of GCSE Biology is what seemed like a succession of David Attenborough films and graffiti daubed textbooks. I recall only an ugly collage of rat dissections and …

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I am Director of Huntington Research School, York. I am also a Research School Developer for the EEF, supporting research schools in the north of England.

When I am not doing research school work, I can be found teaching English as well writing edubooks and articles for TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

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Alex Quigley

I am Director of Huntington Research School, York. I am also a Research School Developer for the EEF, supporting research schools in the north of England.

When I am not doing research school work, I can be found teaching English, as well as writing edubooks and articles for 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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