Tips for teachers
Practical advice on setting Tassomai up, running it well and getting the most from the data. Ideas you can put into practice straight away.
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New features for Tassomai teachers
Learn more about Tassomai’s new data-driven weekly reports for teachers , our dashboards for senior leaders and a change to our binary quiz-question format .
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Tassomai’s January Challenge 2025!
To kick-start 2025 Tassomai is challenging students to complete 20 or more Daily Goals in January to be in with the chance of winning a prize! Are you up for the challenge?!
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A very Mai-rry Christmas!
Tassomai’s AI-tutor is getting into the Christmas spirit this holiday season and we are increasing the Mai allowance for school users for a 4-week period!
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How Class Tasks make homework less work
Holly Bradshaw , Curriculum Leader for Science at Marple Hall School , spoke to us about how Class Tasks are helping with homework setting and boosting students’ confidence.
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Version 2.0 - We’re Updating Class Tasks
After some very helpful teacher feedback , we’re excited to announce that we’ve updated the Class Tasks feature. Read this blog to find out what’s new .
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Free accounts for Tassomai teachers’ children!
One of the benefits of being a Tassomai teacher is a free private subscriber account for your own child, or to gift to a family member or friend’s child.
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Extra Mai credits (and 'spooky Mai') over half-term!
Tassomai’s AI-tutor is getting into the Halloween spirit at half-term and we are increasing the Mai allowance for school users for one week to help students prepare for mock exams.
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Your Mental Health is their Educational Wealth
Chris Gunner, the Customer Success Manager at Tassomai and a former English teacher shares his tips on reducing teacher stress and how Tassomai can play a part in helping by reducing marking and making homework setting easier.
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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: results of the Pupil Premium Boost trial
In 2023/24, 20 schools trialled Pupil Premium Boost. Pupil Premium students with it made about 45% more course progress per question than Pupil Premium students without it.
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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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