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NEW Live Lessons Schedule Announced for May Revision Period
Tassomai will be extending our series of Live Lessons to run throughout the May revision period! Find out more about the new sessions here…
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Introducing: Tassomai’s Live Lessons!
Find out more about our NEW ‘Live Lessons’, starting over the Easter holidays to help GCSE students master the trickiest topics (based on Tassomai's usage data).
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Using Tassomai to help close the attainment gap in my school
Faye Brodrick, Head of Science at Ysgol Maesydderwen Comprehensive School in Swansea tells us how she created a ‘secret Tassomai club’ with her lowest attaining students in order to narrow the gap between her school’s highest and lowest grades.
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Bridging the Attainment Gap: EdTech and the Struggle to Level Up
Our most recent online round table discussion led to the publication of a free downloadable report with valuable insights from teachers, school leaders and education organisations about the role of edtech software in narrowing the attainment gap.
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Tassomai teachers... could you present a 'Live Lesson' this Easter?
Tassomai is inviting teachers using the platform to register their interest in helping to trial ‘Live Lessons’... focused GCSE revision sessions for Key Stage 4 students.
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Changes to exam specifications for 2022 and how to update your Tassomai courses
Following the government’s recent announcement about this year’s assessments, Tassomai has given teachers a few different options on what the changes to specifications for this year’s exams mean for you and your classes.
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Meet the Customer Success Team! (We were teachers too!)
Introducing Tassomai’s Customer Success Team and why they think their background in education helps them to support teachers using Tassomai.
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Introducing: The New Teacher Mobile App!
Teachers can now login on the Tassomai mobile app to view individual students’ data . Find out more about the changes in this article…
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Fine-tuning Topics on Tassomai! (Be Careful What you Wish for)
After listening to teachers’ requests, the Tassomai team has given teachers the ability to ‘pause’ sub-topics on the Teacher Dashboard… but proceed with caution!
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Meet your new Teacher Dashboard!
We are excited to announce an update to Tassomai’s Teacher Dashboard which we hope will make it easier and more intuitive for teachers to use.
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Revision! You don’t have time to waste.
Revision and learning expert (and our guest blogger) Kit Betts-Masters shares his top revision dos and don’ts.
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Top tips for parents from a senior leader
Karen Collins, Lead Science Associate for PiXL, speaks to Tassomai about the structure of the science GCSEs and how parents can best prepare themselves and their children for science assessments.
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Tassomai's revision webinar for parents - here's what you missed
Earlier in November, Murray Morrison, Tassomai’s founder and CEO, sat down with Kit Betts-Masters to discuss the best ways to revise for mock exams and what parents can do to help their children. Find out more about what they discussed in this article…
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Tassomai Roundtable: Challenges, tensions and opportunities in English literature teaching
Our most recent online round table discussion led to the publication of a free downloadable report with valuable insights from English literature teachers, school leaders and English literature education organisations about the future of English teaching.
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Using Tassomai data to improve interventions (and save time on marking too)!
Nick Cleator, Head of Science at Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Cheshire tells us how Tassomai data has changed his department’s approach to homework and lesson planning.
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Introducing the GCSE Survival Guide - practical advice for parents of Y9-11s
The Tassomai team has put together a free guide for parents and a series of blogs with advice from subject specialists , education experts and mental health campaigners.
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Building resilience in your students - advice for teachers
Sam Clark, teacher, writer and founder of Resilience for Kids gives us his best advice for teachers on building resilience and supporting students’ wellbeing.
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How students' performance improved on Tassomai - 2021 update
We’ve looked into our data to see how much students improved on Tassomai throughout the 2020/21 academic year, and the results are impressive! This post explains in detail how we calculate the performance improvement metric.
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Unlock new Linked Resources
Tassomai students are now able to unlock links to external resources , tailored to their individual learning needs and accessible on completion of Daily Goals in each core subject.
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Catch-up tuition supported by EdTech is the best way to get students up to speed with a limited budget
Tassomai founder Murray Morrison believes that edtech can help schools meet the catch-up tuition challenge and get the maximum impact from budgets, and micro-tuition proves that this approach works.
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