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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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  • 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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    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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Duvet Days & the Teacher Workload Problem

In The Confident Teacher by tristan199006/04/20173 Comments

You can almost smell the burning indignation of Daily Mail readers as they read the following story on ‘Duvet Days’ for teachers. “Lessons in Laziness from lie-in teachers” is the war-cry. If you …

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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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Beating the ‘Back to Work Blues’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley30/08/201414 Comments

It is that time of year already. It is once more unto the breach dear teachers – the hallowed summer holidays are ending. Get those work clothes cleaned and ironed. Unburden yourself …

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The Perfect Teacher

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley04/08/201415 Comments

If you clicked on this post for some suggestions for teaching perfection I am sorry I misled you. This post has the sole purpose of disabusing people of the damaging notion that …

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Beating the ‘October Blues’

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley30/09/20121 Comment

It is over a month in, the start of term vigour and optimism has waned for almost all involved, and everything begins to feel more like hard work. The ‘October blues’ phenomenon …

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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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ollie_lovellOliver Lovell@ollie_lovell·

Newest ERRR Podcast now out. This episode is with @margaretmckeow2 on her approach to teaching reading comprehension, 'Questioning the Author'. I LOVED learning about this approach. Hope that you do too! https://www.ollielovell.com/errr/errr-047-margaret-mckeown-on-questioning-the-author-reading-comprehension/

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HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

Really useful blog from @HertsEnglish: 'Getting more mileage out of the Y5/6 spelling list' -

https://www.hertsforlearning.co.uk/blog/getting-more-mileage-out-y56-spelling-list

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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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