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Find generators which help create teaching and learning activities and plans

Scheme of Work

Planning a course is one of the most time-consuming preparation tasks, so this generator (which we also call the Course Planner) may become your go-to tool before the start of a term or a semester or a series of training sessions. It should take on a lot of the spade work and leave you to concentrate on your teaching rather than your planning. Keywords: Scheme; Plan; Sessions; Lessons; Year; Term; Semester; Pattern; Course;

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Lesson Plan

This revised generator will draft an outline plan for your proposed session. In addition to the main thrust of the session It also takes into account particular topics you want to cover, and can focus on specific skills such as literacy or numeracy. Optionally specify one or more learning needs and/or use particular pedagogical models. Keywords: Lesson; Session; Planning; Pedagogical; Bloom; SOLO; Rosenshine; Needs; Learning; Cross Curricular; Skills;

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Lesson Plan (Legacy version)

Notice: This is the Legacy version of the Lesson Plan generator. A revised, more powerful version is available. This generator will draft a detailed plan for your lesson. In addition to the main thrust of the session It also takes into account particular topics you want to cover, and can (if you wish) focus on specific outcomes such as literacy or numeracy. You can specify one or more learning needs to slant the plan towards particular types of learner, and if you’re familiar with the various as

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Learning Activities

This generator will provide suggested activities to use with learners. Whether you need practical or academic activities, your careful input will provide you with ideas which you can then adapt for your own specific needs. TeacherMatic will provide a variety of activities. Keywords: Learning; Activities; Projects; Ideas; Active; Doing; Practical; Practice; Reinforce;

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Start of Lesson Recap

It is often useful at the beginning of a lesson to recap learning from the previous session. This generator will read a previous lesson plan (in MS Word or PDF format) and list its key points, allowing you to remind learners of that lesson and potentially carry out some brief formative assessment to ensure any learning gaps are filled. There is only one thing you need: a previous lesson plan file to upload. Keywords: Recap; Recapitulate; Revise; Revisit, Reminder; Lesson; Repeat;

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Plenary session activities

Plenary sessions normally bring together all learners at the end of a session. A final plenary session involving the whole class helps to spread the learning from the individuals or groups, and gives an opportunity for everyone to share their experiences. This generator will give you ideas of activities and discussion areas to ensure that the plenary session is effective. Keywords: Plenary; Lesson; Session; Finishing; Ending; Recap; Group; Final;

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Multiple Choice Questions

This is a very popular generator. There is plenty of scope for giving TeacherMatic the guidance it needs to provide you a choice of useful multiple choice questions (and answers!) by entering some keywords and, if you wish, pointing to a particularly relevant website and/or to uploading a favourite document of your own. Keywords: Questions; Quiz; Test; Assess; Learning; MCQ; Answers;

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Debate

This generator will produce topics that the class can debate (rather than just answer). Keywords: Debate; Discuss; Ideas; Disagree; Sides; Argue; Activity;

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Rubric Generator

Marking rubrics are scoring guides used to help evaluate the quality of student work. A marking rubric normally includes a set of criteria for grading assignments, and contains marking criteria for levels of achievement, and a scoring strategy. Rubrics can help to improve scoring consistency, both personal and across a team. The Rubric Generator will provide a useful result on which to base your detailed rubric. Keywords: Rubric; Marking; Grading; Grades; Marks; Assess; Criteria; Work; Score;

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PowerPoint Presentation

This tool produces a draft PowerPoint presentation in PPTX file format, including some text for each slide and, where possible, can include images to support the text. Please note that this generator uses one generation for each slide produced. See also the Slideshow Generator, which produces draft text-only content for a slideshow presentation. Keywords: Slideshow; Slides; PowerPoint; PPT; Speaker; Notes; Presentation;

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Slideshow Outliner

This generator produces draft content for a slideshow presentation, including, for each slide, a title, relevant headlines (bullet points) and speaker notes. Where possible it will also recommend a relevant image for each slide. The resultant draft can then be manually copied and pasted into your preferred presentation application, such as PowerPoint. Keywords: Slideshow; Slides; PowerPoint;PPT; Speaker; Notes; Presentation;

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Draft an exam question

Draft an exam question based on an original existing text question, using a similar topic or simply emulating the original style. Keywords: Exam; Example; Copy; Style; Practice; Test; Assess.

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Lesson Objectives

Although you may be sure of its overall purpose, it may be difficult to break a lesson down into a series of individual objectives as the scaffolding from which to build to a successful outcome. This generator should help you determine a number of objectives which can be dealt with individually and help create complete rounded lessons. Keywords: Lesson; Session; Objectives; Purposes; Reason; Separate; Split;

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SMART Targets

Generate specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) targets to help meet your goals. Specific: Be clear about the desired outcome. Measurable: Decide how to judge whether the outcome has been achieved. Attainable: Be realistic - is the outcome actually possible? Relevant: Does the desired outcome fit within or be related to your goal? Time-bound (sometimes expressed as time-based): When must the targets be met, or what is the timescale? Keywords in content.

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Classroom Questions

Find questions you can use in class to help deliver, promote, validate and test knowledge in a particular subject area. Results can be used both as brainstorm seeds and for group work. Questions can lean towards “closed” (fairly simple “fixed” answers which can either be right or wrong), or “open” (which require the learner to elaborate on their answers). Keywords: Classroom; Questions; Test; Assess; Knowledge; Understanding; Closed; Open; Brainstorm; Groups;

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Flash Cards

Flash Cards are a useful tool for both reinforcing teaching and testing learning. Perhaps show a word or concept on one side of a card, get some ideas from the class and then show a definition on the reverse to kick start the teaching, or use the cards by showing definitions and testing class knowledge. The Flash Card generator creates fronts and backs to be edited (and printed) as you wish.

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Glossary

Whereas a dictionary will normally give a basic definition of a word (or sometimes a phrase), a glossary entry is more descriptive. It can be useful to ask learners to come up with their own glossary definitions for words and concepts related to a specific topic, but if you need a starting point, this generator will do the job for you. Keywords: Glossary; Words; Similar; Description; Describe; Explain; Dictionary; Thesaurus;

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Discussion topics

Discussing a topic with the whole class, or breaking into groups for a discussion, can be useful way both to reinforce learning and measure depth of understanding. This generator will suggest topics for discussion based on one or more keywords or phrases, or on a document (such as a handout) which you upload. Keywprds: Discussion; Debate; Talk; Argue; Propound; Group; Assess;

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Course Improvements

However good we may be at designing our teaching, there will be times when we need some inspiration, or when we need to revisit our course planning to look at how we can further engage our learners. This generator allows TeacherMatic to put forward some useful suggestions of content and activities which could potentially add extra dimensions to your courses.  Keywords: Course; Improvements; Better; Inspiration; Planning; Suggestions; Ideas; Content; Activities; Engage;

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Worksheet

Worksheets can be a useful activity to help reinforce knowledge and to gauge learning. TacherMatic offers an easy way to draft a worksheet on any subject. Results are text based, so you may want to copy or export the result into a format in which you can edit the layout, and you may want to add pictures to make the worksheet engaging. Suggested answers will be shown at the end of the draft but can be removed by editing. Keywords: Worksheet; Quiz; Assess; Reinforce;

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Very Short Answers

TeacherMatic has a number of tools to create quizzes and questions to help gauge learning. The Very Short Answers generator will suggest a number of questions, each with one or more single word (or short phrase) answers. This can be very useful when leading a brainstorming session as it will give you a number of possible words to “seed” class suggestions. Keywords: Questions; Answers; Quiz; Test; Assess; Measure; Brainstorm;

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Steps 2 Success

An alternative to ‘learning objectives’ which are widely used to specify the purpose of a lesson orbactivity.  Steps2Success asks what you want learners to know and do by the end of lesson or learning activity in general terms and produces a formal statement identifying exactly what leaners need to KNOW and DO, what they need to SHOW to demonstrate learning and finally what can learners do to IMPROVE their knowledge and skill. Keywords: Steps; Success; Learning; Show; Demonstrate; Improve;

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SPaG+ Feedback

SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) was introduced into English primary schools in 2013 and has since been amended. This generator will analyse a piece of text and give you an opinion  on the SPaG qualities and on the writing style more generally. As an automated process, it will try to give you guidance, but does not take the place of formal SPaG evaluation by teachers. Keywords: Spag; Analyse; Style; Text; Spelling; Punctuation; Grammar; English; Writing;

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Inspiration!

Wondering how to inspire your learners about a subject they really have little interest in? Get some suggestions of activities which could be used to engage and inspire them. Keywords: Inspire; Inspiration; Ideas; Bored; Disinterested; Activities; Fun; Engage;

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The Big Question Wheel

The Big Question generator utilises the 'Discipline Wheel' to produce questions and activities from the selected disciplines in order to tackle any broad question or challenge. Enter a challenge or question and select disciplines to take into account in the response. By default a predefined set of disciplines are included but teachers can remove all of these and add their own. Keywords: Big question; disciplines; Wheel; Challenge; Concept; Epistemic Insight; EI;

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Learner Report Generator

Keywords: Learner; Student; Report; Summary; Reference; Personal;

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Course Description

Promoting a course (or part of a course) is a task most teachers and administrators will need to undertake at times. Here is a simple way to come up with some “sales blurb”! Keywords: Course; Descriptions; Contents; Describe; Advertise; Publicise; Blurb; Sales;

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Assignment

Writing new assignment parameters can be a time consuming task. This generator will do the bulk of the work for you, creating a draft which you can edit to meet your exact needs. Keywords: Assignment; Assess; Assessment; Test; Parameters; Rubric;

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Topic Notes

Rather than generating a full lesson plan, you may sometimes just need suggestions of a number of topics to cover during a session or to use to draft an assignment. This generator simply needs to know a little about the overall topic to produce a list of notes which can help you. Keywords: Topic; Notes; Ideas; Sections; Headings; Plan;

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Topics

This generator is similar to the Topic Notes version, but simply gives you a list of potential topics which might be covered in a particular subject, without any further detail. This can often give you a basic outline into which to build your own detailed content. Keywords: Topic; Section; Summary; Ideas; Split;

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Ask Someone Famous

Meet someone from history or someone in entertainment or a fictional character! Use this generator to prepare for a lesson, or allow learners to suggest a person and a question they’d like to ask, then let TeacherMatic come up with a possible answer in class. Understand that this is AI speaking, not the actual person, and that some some replies may contain controversial statements or display only one side of an argument. Keywords: Famous; Celebrity; Historical; Individual; Fiction; Views;

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Ask an Expert

Need some expert advice from a plumber,  or a sociologist, or a chef, or a copywriter? TeacherMatic will try to help. The results may not give you the whole picture, but they should form a good starting point for your research. If you want to hear from a named individual (or group of individuals) you can use the "Ask Someone Famous" generator instead. Check with a real expert if any safety critical matters are involved. Keywords: Expert; Expertise; Technique; Specialist; Process; How; Steps;

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Laboratory Sessions

This generator will suggest some laboratory sessions to aid learning and comprehension, and possibly to assess learning on a particular topic. You can describe the topic briefly or in detail, and if you know of a good website which deals with the topic you can add that as extra information for TeacherMatic to work on. Keywords: Laboratory; Lab; Science; Experiment; Project; Workshop; Equipment; Chemistry; Physics;

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Project Ideas

Projects and activities are often great for imparting and reinforcing knowledge, but they are not always easy to think of and plan. This generator is just the tool you need to suggest some projects relating to a particular topic. You can describe the topic briefly or in detail, and if you know of a good website which deals with the topic you can add that as extra information for TeacherMatic to work on. Keywords: Plan; Project; Ideas; Suggestions; Reinforce; Activity;

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True or False

TeacherMatic has a number of tools to create quizzes and questions to help gauge learning. The True or False generator is extremely easy to use and depending on how specific you make the request it can build an excellent bank of questions to use in class or in worksheets. Keywords: Quiz; Quizzes; Test; Classroom; Class; Assess; True; False; Questions;

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Student Profile

Generate a student profile based on a number of student characteristics. Keywords: Student; Learner; Profile; Report; Describe; Reference;

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