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Jun 2 2016

Blog Update

Uncategorized / By Alex Quigley / 3 minutes of reading

(Image via Pixabay) A few short weeks ago I consigned my old HuntingEnglish blog to the electronic dustbin and emerged phoenix-like with my new blog – www.theconfidentteacher.com. Unfortunately, not all my former blog followers were transferred at the same time. Hopefully, this issue is now resolved and people are receiving emails each time I …

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May 21 201622/02/2020

Who do you think you are?

The Confident Teacher / By Alex Quigley / 6 minutes of reading

(Image via David Morris on Flickr.com) “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881) Going to university to study English Language and …

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Jon Severs @jon_severs ·

"If you want them to do spaced practice, you need to teach them how to plan in a way that actually makes sense to them and in a way that they will actually do it."

ICYMI @tes chats to @DTWillingham

https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/dan-willingham-interview-memory-phonics-metacognition

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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley ·

*** NEW POST ***

‘Adaptive Teaching & Vocabulary Instruction’

“With respect to classroom teaching, the term micro-adaptation might be defined as continually assessing and learning as one teaches—thought and action intertwined.”

https://www.theconfidentteacher.com/2023/02/adaptive-teaching-and-vocabulary-instruction/

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Kristen McQuillan @mcglynn3 ·

Wise words from @ReadingShanahan

"Kids need to learn to read challenging literature and informational texts from the different disciplines in sophisticated ways, and they need to get used to using text for building extensive stores of knowledge..."

https://shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/more-on-hanford-phonics-reform-and-literacy-levels#sthash.MjbRzNSM.dpbs

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