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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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Tassomai’s NEW KS4 GCSE English language course
Tassomai expands its English language course to include KS4. This course has been designed to help GCSE students get to grips with literary devices, spelling and grammar to equip them with the tools to analyse a piece of text they haven’t seen before.
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English teaching deserves edtech too
Abi Ludlow, English teacher and Tassomai lead at Richard Lander School in Truro discusses her experience with Tassomai’s KS4 English literature content and her hopes for its future.
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Tassomai’s NEW Unseen Poetry Course for English Literature
Tassomai unveils its new Unseen Poetry Skills course to help students get to grips with the basics of poetry and equip them with the tools to analyse a poem they haven’t seen before.
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Introducing new POINTS based Daily Goals
Daily Goals are changing, and will be built around POINTS, not correct answers, giving students more incentive to think before they answer and aim for high accuracy.
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New Video Content for English Literature
We’re excited to announce that Tassomai now includes targeted videos for English literature, with the first set of videos focusing on Shakespeare texts.
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Tassomai Round table: Edtech in science education - building back better in a post pandemic world
Our online round table discussion led to the publication of a free downloadable report with valuable insights from science teachers, school leaders and science education organisations.
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My Priorities for Remote Learning During School Closure
Tassomai teacher - and guest blogger - Kit Betts-Masters shares his experience of teaching remotely during the pandemic .
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Lockdown learning webinars for parents of Tassomai students
Find out what parents were most interested in hearing about at our first lockdown learning webinar, and register for more webinars on the 10th and 11th of February.
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Making the Most of Tassomai - webinars for parents and Tassomai teachers
Tassomai’s founder Murray is running training webinars to support parents and teachers using Tassomai during lockdown.
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How much data does Tassomai use?
With students using technology to aid their learning more than ever before, Tassomai analyses just how much mobile data our app uses to make sure students won’t be racking up a costly bill.
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Supporting remote learning for science, maths and English, the scientific way!
Tassomai’s creator Murray Morrison outlines how Tassomai can help with remote teaching and learning during lockdown.
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Teacher-assessed grades - How Tassomai data can support decision making in lieu of exams
With 2021’s exams cancelled and teachers grading their students for a second year running, Tassomai founder, Murray Morrison , shares some vital tips on how Tassomai data could help to support decision-making .
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Launching Tassomai with a tune
Charters School in Berkshire quite literally went to town when they launched Tassomai, so we were keen to share their all singing, all dancing story on the Tassomai blog.
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This Christmas we are turning virtual trees into real trees!
Tassomai is sponsoring the protection of approximately 750 newly planted trees and giving schools the chance to win real trees to plant in their grounds or gift to students to recognise exceptional use of Tassomai.
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