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The Long and Winding Road (of Revision)

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley08/03/20173 Comments

This article on revision strategies was written for Teach Secondary magazine – to subscribe to the magazine look HERE. The new school year stretches out like one of those American roads that …

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10 New School Year Resolutions

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley03/09/201612 Comments

School starts again on Monday for me and so it is an appropriate time to procrastinate…sorry, I mean plan for the year ahead. Now, I know that the best laid plans of …

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HuntingEnglishAlex Quigley@HuntingEnglish·

*WEEKEND POST*

“Put simply, the better your handwriting – and the more automatic – the more you can focus your mental energy on picking the right words, playing with sentence structures, and much more.”

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2021/01/should-we-worry-about-handwriting/

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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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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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