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·15 Productivity Tools for Teachers
As a team of teachers, we know only too well how demanding teaching can be, and we understand that the new school year brings exciting opportunities to inspire and shape young minds while trying new approaches.
As teachers prepare to head back to school, we're here to support you with tools and strategies to ensure a successful year ahead.
To aid in your journey, we’ve compiled a list of 15 invaluable tools designed to save you time and enhance your teaching experience. These include options for providing professional development (CPD) and enriching your skills, helping you make the most of your classroom time and continue growing as a teacher.
This free resource, from the Teacher Toolkit, is available in both an Artificial Intelligence and a PDF version and helps teachers to reduce their workload and develop good lesson structures within a busy curriculum.
This webpage offers access to all of the BBC’s free teaching resources for schools across the UK. With thousands of resources available, covering 22 subjects from early years to GCSE/Nationals and Highers, you’ll find everything you need to support your lesson planning and delivery.
With a wealth of immersive experiences, interactive lesson plans, maps, and other free materials, National Geographic offers endless opportunities for engaging learning, helping young people become the explorers of tomorrow.
A website by Tom Sherrington, a former headteacher, offers insights on teaching and learning through blog posts and videos. It provides practical advice and resources for professional development, helping educators improve their teaching practices.
A website created by David Didau, where he shares insights from 15 years of teaching, along with research on education and cognitive psychology to address various aspects of classroom life.
A mobile app that allows teachers to share their experiences through quick daily questions, helping influence educational decisions. It also offers daily bite-sized CPD readings, making it easy to stay informed and continue learning.
A web application that lets you create interactive and printable activities such as quizzes, matchups and word games for your classroom with customisable templates.
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that allows teachers to quickly create, share, and play educational games or trivia quizzes. Ideal for engaging students, Kahoot! can be used in classrooms, offices, or even at home to make learning interactive and enjoyable.
Designed to help manage projects, workflows, and task tracking efficiently, Trello can help organise lesson planning, track tasks, and manage classroom activities.
Canva is a free-to-use graphic design platform that can help you to create engaging presentations, posters, and promotional materials. Its user-friendly tools and templates simplify design, making it easy to enhance classroom materials.
A secure platform for teachers to share experiences, compare practices and mentor each other, it also provides updates on education news, research, CPD opportunities and wellbeing resources.
A web-based drag-and-drop platform for creating engaging visuals. Users of all skill levels can design materials, lessons, and activities, enhancing classroom communication, student involvement, and learning experiences.
Quizlet is an easy-to-use web-based tool that lets teachers create interactive flashcards, tests, and study games. Students can switch between various "Study Modes," making it easy to adapt content from flashcards to games, enhancing engagement and learning flexibility.
TeachIt provides thousands of free, ready-made teaching resources across seven subjects, such as English, Maths, and Science. It helps teachers save valuable preparation time by offering high-quality materials for efficient lesson planning.
The best free resources for teaching and learning literacy! Developed by our team of literacy experts, our website hosts a growing library of games, activities, and vocabulary guides, each ready to download or share with your colleagues–and they’re all free!
We hope you find these tools and resources valuable and inspiring and most importantly they save you time!
What resources do you find useful? Comment below to share your tips.