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Tassomai’s NEW KS4 GCSE English language course

Tips for teachers, Tips for parents · 21 May 2021

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

Case study, Tips for teachers · 21 May 2021

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

Tips for teachers · 25 March 2021

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

Tips for teachers, Tips for students, Tips for parents · 24 March 2021

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

Tips for parents, Tips for teachers, Tips for students · 10 March 2021

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

News, Tips for teachers · 9 March 2021

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

Tips for teachers · 22 February 2021

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

Tips for parents, Tips for teachers · 1 February 2021

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

Tips for parents, Tips for teachers · 20 January 2021

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?

Tips for parents, Tips for students, Tips for teachers · 14 January 2021

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!

Tips for teachers · 7 January 2021

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

Tips for teachers · 6 January 2021

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

Tips for teachers · 6 January 2021

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!

News, Tips for teachers · 27 November 2020

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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Introducing new data drops - powerful data at your fingertips!

Tips for teachers · 23 November 2020

Introducing new data drops - powerful data at your fingertips!

New data visualization features for schools promise to level up implementation of Tassomai, save staff time and give teachers the means to reward students for their learning on the platform.

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Using images to increase the impact of Tassomai's new maths content

Tips for teachers, Tips for students · 17 November 2020

Using images to increase the impact of Tassomai's new maths content

Our new KS4 maths content uses images to improve knowledge retention and boost student engagement . Find out how this approach improves the teaching power of our quiz questions.

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Moving from a magpie mindset

Tips for teachers, Article · 17 November 2020

Moving from a magpie mindset

Guest blogger Vic Goddard tells us what he looks for when choosing EdTech , how this has changed over the years and why he’s keen to put Tassomai’s new English Literature course to the test.

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Students don't have time to revise in ineffective ways - this is what science says is the best way to learn!

Tips for teachers, Tips for parents, Tips for students · 11 November 2020

Students don't have time to revise in ineffective ways - this is what science says is the best way to learn!

Revision and learning expert (and our guest blogger) Kit Betts-Masters shares his strategy for exam success … and it starts with putting down the highlighters.

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Mock Exams in a Year of Remote Learning

Tips for teachers · 5 November 2020

Mock Exams in a Year of Remote Learning

It’s been an unpredictable year and we can’t say for certain how exam season in 2021 will turn out, so mock exams could be more important than ever. Find out how Tassomai can help you identify your students’ strengths and weaknesses and focus their revision.

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How Tassomai's English literature course works

Tips for teachers · 29 October 2020

How Tassomai's English literature course works

Learn more about the structure and method behind our new KS4 English literature content, and how it will help to increase knowledge retention .

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