A panoply of topics in this week’s TOTs. Enjoy!

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Some ideas about teaching creative writing, via @_codexterous

Super interesting with great examples of modelling and scaffolding.

Developing expert teaching, via @PepsMccrea

A great thread on expert teaching, and a sneak peek into Peps’ forthcoming book from what I can gather!

Thinking about teaching for understanding in maths, via @danicquinn

Stimulating reflections from an expert teacher on maths with mimicry vs. maths with understanding.

My favourite overlooked Black writer – by Bernardine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood and more, via @BernardineEvari

How To Look After Yourself. 4 Tips For Better Teacher Well-being, via @tomacain

A really thoughtful post by Tom Cain.

Using a visualiser (aka: document camera) in the English Classroom, via @sccenglish

A good follow on from the introductory post on visualisers in TOT106.

A lot of great questions were asked at ResearchEd Surrey! Via @joe_kirby

How sustained advocacy is changing how reading is being taught in the US, via @s_e_schwartz (ht @ehanford)

Thanks in no small part to the fantastic journalistic work of Emily Hanford. If you haven’t already listened to Hard Words, it’s essential listening.

Just for fun: Doing grammar with algebra (video), via @advansjoy (ht @Mr_Raichura)