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In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley14/05/20173 Comments

It is decades since Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam opened up the ‘Black Box’ to reveal the crucial importance of assessment as learning, but it would appear the messages from said box …

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Jon Severs@jon_severs·

How worried should teachers (and their pupils) be worried about Long Covid? I have spent the past month looking at what Long Covid is, how prevalent it is, whether it is similar to other post viral illnesses and more https://www.tes.com/news/long-covid-what-teachers-and-pupils-need-know

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Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish·

An important point here about vocabulary instruction recognising noun phrases, idioms and more. Our very notion of ‘vocabulary’ in use has to be broad & rich, focusing on patterns & clusters, not lists disassociated from sentences & texts.

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Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish·

*NEW*

‘Academic Vocabulary and Schema Building’

“The final schema represented the rich, well-connected vocabulary knowledge required of a pupil to speak and write about the concept with success.”

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2020/11/academic-vocabulary-and-schema-building/

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