Some real quality, and a bit of theme in this week's TOT.

At the outset though, I'm excited to have reached the 80th instalment of Teacher Ollie's Takeaways! I'm excited because 8 is my favourite number. In honour of the occasion I thought I'd re-share the episode of the Mr. Barton Maths podcast in which Craig Barton interviews yours truly about my favourite number and a whole host of other edu-related issues. If you're interested, you can listen here.

T1 and T2 this week are the ‘theme' based pieces. They're both about Mastery teaching, and boy did I learn a lot from both of these combined. If you're interested to learn more about mastery too, please shoot me an email to let me know that you'd like me to further explore this area, and share what I learn.

T3 is an update to Adam Boxer's Rosenshine-inspired lesson observation sheet, which I plan to use with my student teacher this coming week.

T4 is an interesting exploration for the factors that play into who does, and doesn't read cognitive science.

Michael Fordham thoughtfully explores the ins and outs of prescribing teaching methods in T5.

And I'll let the rest of the takeaways speak for themselves (but make sure you don't miss the great Australian geography/physics resources in T9 and T10 if you're a teacher of either of those subjects.

Enjoy!

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What is and isn't teaching for Mastery? @EmathsUK on the @mrbartonmaths podcast

The upsides and potential pitfalls of a mastery based curriculum, via @daisychristo

A new version of Adam Boxer's Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction-based observation template, via @adamboxer1

Who reads more cognitive science, teachers or sports coaches? via @Doug_Lemov

Should teaching methods be prescribed? A thoughtful post by @mfordhamhistory

What if education advocacy was more like pharmaceutical advertising?

Cognitive Load Theory: A failure? Via @edtechdev (make sure you read the tweet's comments too)

S.T.A.R.T: A Bill Rogers acronym to help students to pass a message from one class to another in an appropriate fashion

An excellent resource for geography teachers on the pre-colonisation indigenous landscape of Australia

Physics Teachers!: The ultimate applet to help students to understand electrical circuits

And a super helpful reply from @EvaHartell

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