The Confident Teacher is a blog by teacher and author, Alex Quigley (@HuntingEnglish)

The Confident Teacher
Navigation
  • Home
  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap
  • Closing the Reading Gap
  • The Confident Teacher
  • Home School
  • Resources
  • Search
  • Home
  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap
  • Closing the Reading Gap
  • The Confident Teacher
  • Home School
  • Resources
  • Search

Tag Archive

  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / March 7, 2020

    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

    View Post
  • Uncategorized / February 29, 2020

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

    View Post
  • Uncategorized / February 22, 2020

    Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

    View Post
  • Uncategorized / May 4, 2019

    On the RISE

    View Post
  • Uncategorized / January 20, 2019

    What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

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

    Vocabulary Clinic

    View Post
  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap / October 20, 2018

    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

    View Post
View Post

Why English teachers love teaching tragedy

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley17/06/2012Leave a Comment

The inspiration for this blog post came from a running joke in our English faculty, about how bleak our literature offerings were to our young key stage three students. We joked about …

Subscribe

Twitter @HuntingEnglish

HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

*NEW POST*

'Flipping Fronted Adverbials'

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2021/01/flipping-fronted-adverbials/

Reply on Twitter 1351221431296733193Retweet on Twitter 135122143129673319360Like on Twitter 1351221431296733193298
teacherheadTom Sherrington@teacherhead·

All of a sudden, the concept made perfect sense. Excitedly, he shared the post for others to read. Before long, the fuss subsided. Decidedly unimpressed, the children just got on with it. https://twitter.com/HuntingEnglish/status/1351221431296733193

Reply on Twitter 1351226773502119937Retweet on Twitter 135122677350211993713Like on Twitter 1351226773502119937132
HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

*NEW POST*

'Flipping Fronted Adverbials'

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2021/01/flipping-fronted-adverbials/

Reply on Twitter 1351221431296733193Retweet on Twitter 135122143129673319360Like on Twitter 1351221431296733193298
Load More...

Recent Blogs

  • Flipping Fronted Adverbials 18/01/2021
  • Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy 16/01/2021
  • A Munificent Assemblage of Verbiage (Or ‘Working Words into Writing’) 05/12/2020
  • Academic Vocabulary and Schema Building 07/11/2020
  • Do We Need to Sort Out Silent Reading? 31/10/2020

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.

THE CONFIDENT TEACHER

CLOSING THE VOCABULARY GAP


Closing the Reading Gap

Alex Quigley - 2020
  • Home
  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap
  • Closing the Reading Gap
  • The Confident Teacher
  • Home School
  • Resources
Follow

Get the latest posts delivered to your mailbox: