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Our final Teacher Spotlight of 2023/24 is Becky Fenton-Ree!

Becky is a part-time Language and Communications teacher working with Deaf teenagers whose preferred method of communication is British Sign Language. She’s also a part-time interpreter and she’s been a TeachMateAI member for 8 months.

Read more: https://blog.teachmateai.com/?p=234

We were absolutely overwhelmed with the amount of interest shown by our wonderful community when we opened applications for our Teachmate AI Ambassadors programme recently.

We had over 400 applications for the Class of 24/25, so congratulations to everyone who was successful! Let’s meet a couple of our new ambassadors and hear why they joined the programme…

We can’t wait to work with you all 😁🏫

Guess what? We just launched our Certified Educator Course on TeachMateAI! 🎉

The course is carefully designed to help you build the confidence and knowledge to effectively, and responsibly, integrate AI tools into your teaching practice. 👌

There are 4 short video lessons with our Co-founder Mr P which you can complete online at https://teachmateai.com/certified-educator-course

It'll save your progress as you go, and when you graduate you get your Certified Educator Badge to proudly share your achievement on social media. Be sure to tag us so we can congratulate you! 🏅

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Writing Feedback tool! This nifty tool will support you to give feedback on your students' writing. It can be used on students online written work and their hand-written work. Check our Mr P's training video to learn how. 🧑‍🏫

This tool is not here to substitute your role in giving feedback as a teacher. It's here to help and support you to enhance learning.

Writing Feedback ✍️ Use this tool to provide formative feedback on students' writing. Paste the writing and tell the AI the text type and learning focus. The AI will always provide feedback on 'Spelling, punctuation and grammar', 'Use of language', 'Sentence structure' and 'Overall structure'. You can then include up to 3 additional areas for feedback, for example: Figurative Language or Vocabulary choices.

Try it today - https://teachmateai.com/writing-feedback

We're hiring!

Passionate about using AI for good in education? ✅
Practicing secondary/post-16 teacher or recently left the classroom? ✅
Love the idea of joining our small team to help maximise the impact of Teachmate? ✅

Well get your CV and covering letter in to [email protected] by 5th July 👍

Full details here: https://blog.teachmateai.com/?p=224

This month we're interviewing Hannah, the first member of the TeachMateAI team! Find out more about her role at TeachMate and which AI tool she would create if technology had no limits ✨🚀

https://blog.teachmateai.com/?p=230

We put the feelers out in our TeachMateAI Facebook Group (if you’re not a member, join us! - www.facebook.com/groups/teachmate ) to learn which of our tools (we have over 100!) our new members are using most as part of their PRO membership.

Check out some of the responses… 🤩

We're recruiting again! 🚀 We're looking for a Community Engagement Manager - Secondary

Passionate about using AI for good in education? ✅
Practicing secondary/post-16 teacher or recently left the classroom? ✅
Love the idea of joining our small team to help maximise the impact of Teachmate? ✅

Well get your CV and covering letter in to [email protected] by 5th July 👍

Have you heard? 📣 We've just launched our brand new TeachMateAI Teacher Ambassador Programme and if you're interested, we'd love for you to apply!

We’ll support our ambassadors to help maximise the positive impact of AI in their teaching and across their schools, as we run half-termly collaborative online workshops to discuss different aspects of AI for education.

You don’t have to be an AI expert to apply! Applications are open to all enthusiastic educators with an interest in exploring how AI can support education. 😊

More details below and scan the QR code or click here to apply:
https://forms.gle/9BcrtxzjKgP5FrP39

We’re getting in touch with some very exciting news today! 🥳

We’re looking for educators across the UK to join our new ‘Teachmate AI Ambassador’ programme!

We’ll support our ambassadors to help maximise the positive impact of AI in their teaching and across their schools, as we run half-termly collaborative online workshops to discuss different aspects of AI for education.

You don’t have to be an AI expert to apply! Applications are open to all enthusiastic educators with an interest in exploring how AI can support education. 😃

More details below and scan the QR code or click here to apply:
https://forms.gle/9BcrtxzjKgP5FrP39

Can you believe that in the past 28 days our Report Writer tool has been used to write over 500,000 personalised, quality student reports?! 🤩 Here are some of the fantastic things our members have had to say about it.

Check it out and start using it today: https://teachmateai.com/report-writer

Teacher Tapp surveys thousands of teachers on a daily basis. We’ve won a Gold Award because out of the survey respondents who mentioned TeachMateAI, 90% of them said they’d recommend us to other teachers!

We are so grateful for this incredible TeachMateAI community that we’ve built and to everyone who mentioned us. We can’t wait to continue supporting teachers using responsible AI, allowing you to be a fantastic teacher, and have time for the other things that bring you joy, too!

We’re so grateful to our amazing community of teachers whose invaluable feedback helped us to develop these new ‘SEND and Adaptation’ tools. We also made some updates to our existing tools to make them even better.

1. Sensory Activities 👋
Generate ideas for sensory activities relating to a topic. https://teachmateai.com/sensory-activities

2. Student Checklist Generator ✔️
Create a checklist to support pupils work through an activity. https://teachmateai.com/student-checklist-generator

3. EAL Vocab Mat and Word Mat generators 🗣️
Our Word Mat generators now enable you to specify which words to include. https://teachmateai.com/eal-vocab-mat and https://teachmateai.com/word-mat

4. One Page Support Profile 📝
Create a one page profile for a pupil. https://teachmateai.com/one-page-support-profile

5. Pupil Passport with Targets 🎯
Create personalised Pupil Passports which include a Plan, Do, Review table with SMART targets. https://teachmateai.com/pupil-passport

We've been busy working hard behind the scenes to bring you a selection of brand new SEND and Adaptation Tools! If you're subscribed to our emails, you'll be hearing about them all very soon 😉 But for now, we wanted to share one of them with you all.

1. Sensory Activities 👋
This tool can be used to generate ideas for sensory activities relating to a topic. Simply enter the year group and topic you are teaching, and the AI will generate 5 ideas for you with the resources required and senses targeted.

We've made this tool free to use for an entire week - try it today and let us know what you think! https://teachmateai.com/sensory-activities

Have you put our refinement bar to the test yet? 🤩 You’ve probably noticed it on each of our tools on the website, but if you haven’t, it’s a fantastic way to quickly refine our AI’s outputs.

For example, it works hand in hand with our Report Writer tool (https://teachmateai.com/report-writer) to help you make your reports longer, shorter, more formal, more informal and you can directly edit the writing within TeachMateAI. The result? Personalised, high-quality reports that can be done in minutes.

Give yourself the break you deserve this half term with 15% all annual PRO subscriptions, giving you access to our Report Writer tool and over 100 other time-saving tools!

Use code REPORTS24 at checkout! 💸 Upgrade now via The Hub or sign up at TeachMateAI.com

It's new tool Tuesday! Introducing our latest tool, the Student Checklist Generator ✅

Use this tool to create a checklist to support pupils' work through an activity. Simply provide a summary of the activity and the AI will generate a sequenced checklist which students can tick off.

Try it out today! https://teachmateai.com/student-checklist-generator

Did you know that our Help Me Write tool can help you to write... well, anything! ✍️This diverse tool can be used for the most mainstream or niche of topics, from assembly speeches to reports on pupils' attendance for Governors.

For example, we asked it to write an assembly speech for primary school children on the importance of asking questions. Here's what it came up with...

And don't forget, using our new refinement bar, you can make the writing longer, shorter, more formal and you can easily add and remove sections and edit it as you see fit.

How do you use Help Me Write to help you in your teaching? 👇https://teachmateai.com/help-me-write

We recently welcomed Karen to the growing TeachMateAI team! If you’re part of our thriving community of teachers, you’ll likely have spotted her in the group. If you’re not a member, join us by searching for "TeachMateAI Teachers"!

Read all about Karen's upcoming trip to Italy in her campervan and her triathlon here: https://blog.teachmateai.com/?p=198 🏃‍♀️

Have you checked out our new and improved Report Writer tool yet?

We've given it some amazing updates including our new "Clone My Tone" feature, the ability to add up to 10 subjects, add targets and use our refinement bar!

Watch Dr Chips demo these amazing new features here: https://www.loom.com/.../101ce72a82974ecda7f79b4925a9bf09... and don't forget, you can upgrade to a PRO annual subscription with 15% off using the code REPORTS24 💸

We've been promising some big updates to our Report Writer tool for 2024 and we're excited to announce these are now live!

1. 🎤 Clone My Tone feature
Provide a sample of your reports and our innovative AI will be able to learn how to write in your own unique style and tone of voice.
2. 🔟 Add up to 10 subjects
You can now add up to 10 subjects or focus areas per report!
3.🎯Targets
We now give you the option to include targets in your reports.
4. 💬 Refinement
Use our refinement bar to tell the AI how to tweak the reports until they're perfect.

Watch Dr Chips demo these new features here: https://www.loom.com/share/101ce72a82974ecda7f79b4925a9bf09?sid=ad10939f-c21f-4da7-aad5-07c2b39ccea8

Jump straight in and start using the tool here: https://teachmateai.com/report-writer

This month we’re introducing Mel, our Operations Manager who joined the team a few months ago. If you’ve ever had any questions about your account or membership, it’s Mel you’ll have been speaking to!

Learn more about Mel, here: https://blog.teachmateai.com/?p=186

We're delighted to introduce our April Teacher Spotlight, Kate!

Kate Woodhead Tulett is an art teacher at a prep school teaching years 5, 6, 7 and 8. She’s been teaching for 27 years and has been a TeachMateAI PRO member for over a year.

Read her advice on how to get the most out of using AI in your teaching and her favourite TeachMateAI tools here: https://blog.teachmateai.com/?p=182

These three PRO tools have been our most popular for the past week, so we're making them free to use for the next week!

We know you’re going to love using these. Let us know how you get on.

1. Help Me Write 📝
Our Help Me Write tool really is the gift that keeps on giving! Did you know that it can help you with ANY written task? This universal tool also allows you to input the tone you would like the writing in - from creating exam questions, to pupil certificate nominations, to reports and more. https://teachmateai.com/help-me-write

2. Model Text Generator ✍️
This tool can be used to help write model texts. Simply tell it what to write, which language or grammatical features to use and how long to make it. The AI will then write a model text matching your requirements. https://teachmateai.com/model-text-generator

3. Letter Writer ✉️
This tool can be used to write letters to parents, or other recipients. Simply indicate who the letter is to, provide a brief summary of content and required tone. The AI will then draft the letter for you. https://teachmateai.com/letter-writer

Plan your Summer term in record time thanks to our Linked Tools feature! It helps our tools to work synergistically to save you even more time when it comes to lesson planning and resource generation 📝

Start with our Medium Term Topic Planner tool (https://teachmateai.com/medium-term-topic-planner)- Input the topic and year group and our AI will generate the lessons you need with learning objectives and descriptions. Then simply scroll down and you’ll see our Linked Tools section.

As you work through the process you’ll be able to use our Lesson Planner tool, our Slideshow Generator tool, our Worksheet Generator tool and finally our Worksheet Adaptor tool.

Thanks to the nifty way these linked tools interact, you’ll be able to plan an entire term’s worth of work in record time Let us know how you get on! 🙌

Happy birthday to us! TeachMateAI turns 1 today! 🎉

We’ve had an incredible first year and we have you, our fantastic members to thank. Thank you for supporting us and for making our first year so special.

We can’t wait to see what our second year in business has in store for us! 🙌🏻

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 teacher for 16 years. Find out Kizzy's top tips for new teachers using AI and much, much more on the TeachMateAI blog! ✨ https://blog.teachmateai.com/?p=168

Our Help Me Write tool really is the gift that keeps on giving! 🎁 Did you know that it can help you with ANY written task? 🤯

This universal tool also allows you to input the tone you would like the writing in - from creating exam questions to pupil certificate nominations, to reports - how else have you used this nifty tool?

Let us know in the comments 👇 https://teachmateai.com/help-me-write