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Questioning and Feedback: Top Ten Strategies

In The Confident Teacher by Alex Quigley19/11/201416 Comments

As part of our whole staff training at Huntington School we have been sharing ideas and collating ‘Top Ten Strategies’. This list is the fruits of our labour: 1. Differentiated questioning. Given the …

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Inclusive Questioning

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley03/02/20133 Comments

I today read an excellent blog by @headguruteacher on differentiation, which defined it as a key aspect of great lessons – see here. I was most interested in the role of inclusive …

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chemDrKNiki Kaiser (K Chem)@chemDrK·

Revisiting this poster today from the EEF Sci Guidance Report.
Lots of ideas on here from teachers for what the recommendations looks like in practice
How do they look today? Which look the same,despite everything? Are any particularly important right now?
https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/Science/Science_Research_poster.pdf

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AnnMrozAnn Mroz@AnnMroz·

A very good question. It’s also interesting to ponder the effect this paucity of working-class voices has had on the media today

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the EEF, supporting teachers to access research evidence. After over fifteen years in the classroom, I now support from outside the school gates.

I write edubooks and 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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