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Ofsted's Quality of Education Framework: How Edtech Can Support Schools
Mark Barton, Tassomai’s Customer Facing Team Lead writes about Ofsted's shift towards a more holistic approach to evaluating schools and how edtech can support teachers and SLT.
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Introducing ‘Challenges’ - a new feature for Tassomai students
To help motivate students and introduce a little more competition on Tassomai we’re introducing Challenges , starting with the “ Champion ” and “ Golden Boot ” challenges.
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Teachers, Time-saving & Tassomai
” When I was teaching, the one thing I wished I had more of - aside from a moment’s peace - was time. " Chris Gunner, Tassomai’s Customer Success Manager on the time-saving benefits of Tassomai for teachers.
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The Tassomai impact on Humanities
Clare Quarton, Teaching Team Leader for Humanities at Treviglas Academy, Newquay tells us about the impact Tassomai has had and how they’ve made homework fun, engaging and a little bit competitive for students.
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Setting students on a path to top grades in GCSE geography with Tassomai
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 .
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Closing the Pupil Premium attainment gap with "Pupil Premium Boost"
Schools testing Tassomai's differentiated intervention for Pupil Premium students are seeing a 35-45% progress increase for the students taking part in the trial.
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Extra Mai credits for the start of exam season
To celebrate the launch of our new ‘Mai Explains’ feature and to help students who are revising for exams, we’re increasing the number of Mai credits for school users from Friday 10th to Sunday 12th May.
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Introducing ‘Mai Explains’ - Immediate feedback on errors from our AI-powered tutor!
Thanks to Mai’s latest upgrade, students can get immediate feedback on their mistakes with the new “ Mai Explains ” feature.
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Using Tassomai’s maths content to build good learning habits at key stage 3
Kyle Parsad talks about his experience of using Tassomai’s maths content to build good learning habits among his KS3 students, and about its positive impact on teacher workload.
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Using Tassomai to help teach GCSE history
A history teacher at Chase High School in Southend-on-Sea shares his experience of using the edtech retrieval practice program "Tassomai" to help embed knowledge with his GCSE history students.
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Introducing “Class Tasks”
Tassomai teachers can now set “Class Tasks” to help embed knowledge after teaching a topic or to direct intensive, impactful revision in a problem/intervention topic.
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Easter Holiday Challenge!
Tassomai users can help their schools to win big prizes in our charity prize draw this Easter. Just complete 8 or more Daily Goals during the Easter holidays to be in with a chance of winning!
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The Tassomai Triangle: School – Parent – Tassomai: “How We Did it…“ with Cara Steele
In the second of our “How We Did It…” webinar series Murray spoke to Cara Steele, Curriculum Leader for Science at Marple Hall School in Manchester who implemented Tassomai in 2019 when they were looking at overhauling homework and have been one of our top users ever since.
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A mentor like me: helping girls to thrive in STEM subjects
Today we have a guest blog from the WISE Campaign talking about the importance of role models in ensuring more girls take STEM subjects at school and pursue careers in STEM industries.
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Closing the attainment gap with Tassomai
How Tassomai is creating features to target Pupil Premium attainment and helping to close the gap in education. Teachers can sign up to be part of our trial here…
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January Challenge Prize Draw Results
We’ve looked through January’s data to see who completed 20 or more Daily Goals , and we’ve drawn our winners from the eligible Tassomai students.
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Hungry for knowledge – swapping lunch queue passes for revision performance. “How We Did it…“ with Claire Crichton-Allen
Claire Crichton-Allen, an experienced Head of Department speaks to us about incentivising students without any budget and exceeding the National Average by 10% to get her school’s best-ever GCSE science results.
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3 new MFL vocabulary courses
Tassomai announce the launch of new MFL (Modern Foreign Language) courses covering the key vocabulary lists for Spanish, French and German.
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"How We Did It" - Claire Crichton-Allen
Introducing “How We Did It” …, a new series of webinars for teachers. In this first webinar Tassomai's founder, Murray talks with Claire Crichton-Allen whose approach to implementing Tassomai made a big impact in a short space of time.
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Mai, our AI tutor is now available for Tassomai schools
The Tassomai team are delighted to announce that Mai, our AI-powered tutor is now included in our packages for schools.
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