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Find out what’s new at Tassomai and explore the Tassomai blog, a treasure trove of useful information for teachers, parents and students.
Find out what’s new at Tassomai and explore the Tassomai blog, a treasure trove of useful information for teachers, parents and students.
Earlier this year 20 schools that use Tassomai partnered with us to trial a differentiated intervention for their Pupil Premium students.
The results showed a profound impact on attainment, with PP students on the trial making 35-45% more progress than their peers!
Poetic Form is an important topic for GCSE English students to understand and one which comes up in GCSE English exams. It’s also a topic which we know many students struggle with. Read this blog post to get to grips with Poetic Form!
To celebrate Mai’s first birthday we’re sharing some facts about Mai, and an update from our team on how we plan to evolve this engaging addition to Tassomai.
Diffusion is an important topic for GCSE biology students to understand and one which comes up regularly in GCSE science exams. It’s also a topic which we know many students struggle with. Read this blog post to get to grips with diffusion!
Geography is a very content-heavy subject, so it can be tough for teachers to cover the syllabus more than once. Using Tassomai to revise and recap has really helped helped her students, says Charlotte Pollard, a Geography ECT at Treviglas Academy in Newquay.
As well as helping students when they’re stuck, Mai can now provide detailed explanations when a student makes a mistake on a quiz question.
Through analysing the usage data of Tassomai students and identifying some common mistakes in their quizzes we can see which topics GCSE students struggle with the most.
In this new series of blogs we’ll be posting brief explainers on Tricky Topics in GCSE science, maths and English to help students get up to speed and prepare for their mock exams.
Tassomai teachers can now set “Class Tasks” to help embed knowledge after teaching a topic. This new feature is a great way to direct intensive, impactful revision in a problem or intervention topic.
You’ll also find a recording of our Class Tasks teacher webinar at the end of the blog post.
Tassomai’s founder Murray Morrison was featured in Education Today magazine talking about Tassomai’s new intervention for Pupil Premium students and the impact it’s had so far.
Tassomai runs free Zoom-based Live Lessons, open to any student who wants to attend. Tassomai users can also access recordings of previous Live Lessons via the Live Lessons library containing 100+ tutorials.
Users that prefer to view Tassomai on a dark background can choose to view content in Dark Mode.
Dark Mode is one of the most highly requested features from Tassomai users, so we were delighted to be able to offer this new option for those that prefer it.
Doug Lemov, author of the international bestseller Teach Like A Champion spoke to Tassomai about retrieval practice, the pandemic, rising anxiety amongst teens, and creating a culture of belonging in the classroom.