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Overconfidence – Explaining it Away

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley03/06/2016Leave a Comment

(Image via Stowe Boyd from Flickr)   “The human mind is an overconfidence machine.” David Brooks, The Social Animal Overconfidence is dangerous. How many ill-judged wars, invasions, crashes, economic downturns and worse, …

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Explicit vocabulary teaching, incidental vocabulary learning, cultivating ā€˜word consciousnessā€™ - lots of examples herešŸ”½ https://twitter.com/HuntingEnglish/status/1390947273748713473

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We're offering up to six fully funded PhD studentships across the College. If you are interested in working with me in any area of literary linguistics or English education then please get in touch. Details of the scheme here https://www.aston.ac.uk/bss/bss-business-and-social-sciences-studentships-phd

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*NEW POST*

'Three Pillars of Vocabulary Teaching'

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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 Ā 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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