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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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  • Uncategorized / February 29, 2020

    We are ‘Doing Curriculum’ – so what are we stopping?

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  • Uncategorized / February 22, 2020

    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

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  • Uncategorized / May 4, 2019

    On the RISE

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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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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / October 20, 2018

    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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Academic Vocabulary and Schema Building

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley07/11/20206 Comments

Every teacher recognises the vital role of academic vocabulary to access the school curriculum and go onto succeed. Put simply, the more words you know, the further you’ll go. Words are crucial …

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Transform Education and Assessment (Just Not Yet)

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley26/08/20208 Comments

Ch-ch-changes. After the trials and tribulations of the summer of 2020, renewed calls are being made to transform education and change how assessment is enacted in schools.  For experienced teachers, it is …

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What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley20/01/2019Leave a Comment

Recently, I published a blog on the EEF website on a ‘knowledge rich’ curriculum – you can find it here. I have republished it on my website for regular readers. A New Year’s Prediction: 2019 will be The Year of Curriculum.  …

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The Power of (Pushy?) Parents

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley18/09/20182 Comments

Family comes first. With a heady mix of love and selfishness, ambition and hope, parents guard and support their children. It is no real surprise then to read in the latest Sutton …

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How to Write an Edu-book – Part 1

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley03/03/20182 Comments

I often hear the comment “I don’t know how you write books and do the day job“. And well, I usually agree and stumble over some comments about being very tired, but …

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Rethinking Assessment

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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Breaking Beyond Our Old Ideas

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley05/03/2016Leave a Comment

  “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify … into every corner of our minds.” John Maynard Keynes    Knowledge is power, …

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Beyond National Curriculum Levels: One Year On

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley27/06/20155 Comments

Let me recall a tale of two Parents’ Evenings. My colleague attended the usual fare at his son’s primary school and he learnt that his son was working at a level 1a in …

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Have We Got Feedback Backwards?

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley27/09/201410 Comments

Does a steepling pile of marking like this loom large in your nightmares? The effect of good quality written feedback is one of those few constants that most teachers can agree has a …

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Moving Beyond National Curriculum Levels

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley06/12/201319 Comments

A fair few months ago the government announced the end of KS3 levels. Only there has been little real change – to my knowledge – in the status quo because schools are …

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Join us in speaking to Dr Jessie Ricketts @ricketts_lara, researcher at Royal Holloway, on the importance of reading, oracy and vocabulary in language development. This Tuesday at 4pm. Sign up free at: http://bit.ly/GreenshawR45

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'Do we need to sort out silent reading?'

A relevant question post-lockdown. Reading, listening, and book talk will be hugely valuable. Maximising this time will matter.

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2020/10/do-we-need-to-sort-out-silent-reading/

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DTWillinghamDaniel Willingham@DTWillingham·

Explicit instruction provides dramatic benefits when learning to read...if you couldn't read the paywalled article last week, here's a news story https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210227083256.htm

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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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