Dear readers. This is, indeed, a momentous occasion. We’ve made it to 100 TOTs. That means 100 weeks of sharing my favourite takeaways from twitter, blogs, podcasts, and much more.

To commemorate the 100th TOT, I contacted some of the most featured tweeters from the past 99 TOTs and asked them to share three of their favourite tidbits of education goodness. Below we hear from Tom Sherrington, Harry Fletcher-Wood, James Mannion, Adam Boxer, and Michael Pershan, each with 3 recommendations for your education edification.

Thanks for your engagement and I hope you enjoy this 100th TOT!

Note: I’m constantly on the lookout for good blogs from contributors from a variety of backgrounds (gender, race, etc) and I’d love for the next 100 TOTs to be more balanced in this respect. If there’s anyone whose blogs you think I should subscribe to on this front, please shoot me an email or tweet recommendation!

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Tom Sherrington’s top 3: Rosenshine, MARGE, and another newsletter, via @teacherhead

Tom’s first recommendation was this tweet from Oliver Caviglioli on Rosenshine’s Principles!

Second, Tom wanted to feature a tweet by myself, via @DTWillingham of Arthur Shimamura’s MARGE framework! MARGE is a powerful 5-step framework for teaching; Motivate, Attend, Relate, Generate, Evaluate. Here’s Tom’s summary!

Finally, Tom shared @sccenglish’s Fortnightly newsletter, which you can sign up to here.

Harry Fletcher-Wood’s top 3: CPD, TeacherTapp, and habits, via @HFletcherWood

Harry had the following to say:
Josh Goodrich (@Josh_CPD) does some of the best thinking I know about how to help teachers improve. I’m really glad that he’s now blogging. Check this series out, on defining instructional coaching, starting here.

From there, Harry suggested:
Teacher Tapp sends teachers three questions each day. They build up an amazing picture of what’s really going on in English schools over time, sharing their findings here.

Harry concluded with:
Finally, I’m increasingly interested in the role our habits play in the classroom. Research by Mike Hobbiss, Sam Sims (@DrSamSims) and Becky Allen (@profbeckyallen) into the role of teacher habits is particularly fascinating. There’s a good introduction to it here.

James Mannion’s top 3: inequality, disadvantage, and oracy, via @RethinkingJames

James recommended a talk by Prof Diane Reay on how schools reproduce social and economic inequality.

Secondly, James thought that teachers may really enjoy this thread and video on how to close the disadvantage gap.

Finally, James recommended a blog by Rupert Wegerif (@rupertwegerif) on Oracy as the vaccine against truth decay.

Adam Boxer’s top 3: behaviour, quality first teaching, and cogscisci, via @adamboxer1

In his words, Adam recommends:

  1. My page on behaviour, not because I enjoyed writing it (I hate talking about and dealing with behaviour) but because it will probably help the most people
  2. Ruth Ashbee (@Ruth_Ashbee) – E. Coli and Quality First Teaching. Still one of the greatest blogs ever written
  3. Just cogscisci generally for being an amazing community (a group bringing cognitive science to the science classroom)

Michael Pershan’s top 3: Feedback, geometry puzzles, and times tables, via @mpershan

Michael's three takeaways are:

  1. His blog series on feedback
  2. Catriona Agg’s twitter account for fun geometry puzzles, found here @Cshearer41
  3. Maths app Mathigon, and this link in particular for multiplication by heart!

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