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Introducing our March Teacher Spotlight, Kizzy

Introducing our March Teacher Spotlight, Kizzy

We’re delighted to share this month’s Teacher Spotlight with you! Kizzy Coll-Cats is a senior AAC teacher who works for CandLE (Communication and Learning Enterprise), a not-for-profit organisation that specialises in the education news of students who rely on AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication). She teaches from preschool to age 25 and has been a

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Introducing our two new SEND tools

Introducing our two new SEND tools

We’ve been busy building some incredible new SEND tools that will help you to support your students with additional learning needs. We’re SO excited about these! 1. Pupil Passport with Targets 🎯This tool can be used to create personalised Pupil Passports which include a Plan, Do, Review table with SMART targets. Simply enter the areas of

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Introducing our new YouTube Ingest Tool

Introducing our new YouTube Ingest Tool

This new tool is going to be such a game-changer! Introducing our YouTube Ingest tool… Simply input a YouTube video URL to create resources from its content. Using our linked tools, you can quickly and easily create pupil resources, a slideshow, quizzes and more! Try it today and let us know what you think!

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Introducing our new CPD Slideshow Generator tool

Introducing our new CPD Slideshow Generator tool

It’s time for a new tool! We’re excited to announce that we’ve just launched our brand new CPD Slideshow Generator. 👩‍🏫 This tool will create presentations for teacher professional development sessions. Simply enter the topic and number of slides and let the AI draft the content, including knowledge check questions. Try it today and let

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Introducing our first Teacher Spotlight, Claire

Introducing our first Teacher Spotlight, Claire

Our Teacher Spotlight is a brand-new feature that shines a light on our incredible Teachmate members! For this month’s spotlight, we spoke to Claire Bramley who teaches in a mainstream secondary, with Enhanced Education Provision which runs alongside. Claire always wanted to be a teacher after working as a TA for 14 years. She’s been

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Our SEND Community Workshop was a huge success!

Our SEND Community Workshop was a huge success!

Teachmate Founder Dr. Chips and Content & Community Manager Hannah were joined by eight Teachmate teachers last week to discuss how we can improve our range of tools for SEND students. We’re so lucky to have such a fantastic community of Teachmate users who are willing to share their thoughts, feedback and expertise. Not only

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DfE’s Generative AI in education – Educator and expert views report summary

DfE’s Generative AI in education – Educator and expert views report summary

The DfE’s report sharing educators and experts views has recently been released and we’re proud to see Teachmate appear as a tool educators are using in their practice. You can read the full report by clicking on the image above, however we’ve also loaded into our DocuDive tool to help you easily ask questions about

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Two new PRO SIP tools just launched

Two new PRO SIP tools just launched

We’re excited to announce the launch of two new PRO SIP tools… 1. SIP: Identify & Write Objectives 🔎 Paste a range of information about your school and the AI will identify areas for development. It will then turn these into SIP objectives and suggest an implementation plan, success criteria, resources required and staff involved.

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Two new PRO school leader tools just launched

Two new PRO school leader tools just launched

We’ve just launched two new PRO school leader tools that we know are going to save you SO much time. 1. SEF: Identify & Write Evidence Statements 📝 Paste a range of information about your school and the AI will identify, extract and summarise strengths in a table under the 4 Ofsted categories of: quality

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