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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Resources / October 20, 2018

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    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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New Year, New Habit? Tips for New Year’s Resolutions

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley27/12/20138 Comments

Image credit: Corbis It is that time of year again. The fridge is over-populated with half-eaten turkey and other non-distinct food-stuffs sealed into Tupperware. The sherry seal is broken and the selection …

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‘The Power of Habit’ – Helping Students Master their Habits

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley01/12/20122 Comments

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,” William James Over the summer I read the excellent book, ‘The Power of Habit‘, by Charles …

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Things that are flocculent:
1. Freshly fallen snow.
2. Our #WordOfTheDay.

Wondering how to say it? https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/flocculent-2021-01-24/

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nmmarkingDr Chris Wheadon@nmmarking·

@HuntingEnglish You might be interested in this study from the EEF: https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and-evaluation/projects/helping-handwriting-shine/ They used Comparative Judgement to look at the extent of the improvement.

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DBPrendergastDaisy Wilson@DBPrendergast·

Sometimes you just need to be sent some stunning drawing work by your students ❤️ So proud of this lot and how they have adapted to home learning❤️#edutwitter #artteacher #drawingoftheday

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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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