The Teacher’s AI Survival Kit: Your secret to a smoother September start

Welcome to a brand-new term!

Does the start of the academic year feel like a whirlwind with the same pressures as the last? Returning to the classroom, students are still in summertime mode, wandering attention spans, and the rest of the year is looming in front of you – it sounds like a Teacher’s Survival Kit would be useful to have at your disposal.

Got one already? What’s in yours – a library of resource links you’ve been populating for months, an emergency supply of pens and post-it notes, a reliable 2025/26 planner at your fingertips, not to mention extra packets of coffee and biscuits?

Try this AI-powered alternative…

Your Teacher’s AI Survival Kit

At TeacherMatic, we’ve created this Teacher’s AI Survival Kit to help teachers in secondary, further and higher education to start the new term smarter (and hopefully calmer) with a curated set of AI-powered generators to take the heavy lifting out of your new term to-do list.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could create lesson plans, draft reports, provide personal feedback or think up new activities for your learners in minutes, not hours? With practical, ready-to-go support that frees you up to focus on your students, minus any complicated prompts or the need for extra training.

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TeacherMatic is your new time-saving sidekick with AI-powered tools for lesson plans, reports, feedback and more.

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New-Term Essentials: Time-saving AI-powered tools

Here’s what’s in your AI survival kit for September:

(1) Smarter, tailored lesson planning

Back to school and back to lesson planning with the Lesson Plan Enhanced Generator enables you to create detailed session outlines fast. (Not just a generic plan.)

Here’s what you can do:

Align to specific pedagogical models like Bloom’s Taxonomy, SOLO or experiential learning.
Embed key skills such as literacy, numeracy, digital literacy or employability.
Adapt for diverse learners, including those with SEND, EAL or specific learning difficulties.
Map directly to your curriculum, including awarding body requirements and qualification frameworks.
Focus on learning outcomes, helping you plan lessons that build knowledge and develop skills, not just fill time.

How you can use it:

Teaching GCSE English Language to a mixed-ability Year 11 class? Prompt the generator to scaffold activities for both higher-order analysis and basic comprehension, then refine it for differentiation.
Running a BTEC Business session on marketing? Ask the tool to align the outcomes with specific unit criteria and include practical tasks, like campaign analysis or pitch creation.
Need a SEN-friendly Art and Design lesson? Request multi-sensory activities and reduced cognitive load built into the structure.
Delivering a first-year university seminar in Sociology? Plan a session that blends introductory theory with interactive case study analysis, mapped to module learning outcomes and designed to develop both critical thinking and academic writing skills.

Tip: Save your favourite lesson formats to use across multiple topics for streamlining schemes of work.

Designed for: Curriculum teams, secondary teachers, and FE and HE tutors looking to save time and deliver high-quality, learner-centred sessions.

(2) Ready-to-go learning activities

Need fresh ideas for interactive or practical tasks? The Learning Activities Enhanced Generator is your go-to for creating engaging, varied, and purposeful learner tasks in seconds.

With just a few prompts, you can:

Align activities with your subject goals, assessment criteria or curriculum standards.
Target specific learner types (e.g. EAL, SEN).
Suggest individual, paired or group tasks.
Cater to in-person or remote learning formats.
Create differentiated tasks to support mixed-ability classes.
Offer practical, academic or creative tasks depending on your needs.

How you can use it:

Teaching A-level Psychology? Ask for group activities that explore ethical dilemmas in psychological research. You’ll get suggestions like structured debates, role-plays or jigsaw-style peer learning—all mapped to AO1/AO3-style objectives.
Delivering a Functional Skills Maths lesson? Generate hands-on, real-world problems involving budgeting, measurement or data handling. Activities could include shopping challenges, cooking conversions or analysing class-generated survey data.
Need an inclusive, low-barrier activity for an SEN or mixed-ability group? Request scaffolded, sensory or visual activities. Think: sequencing tasks using visual cards, matching exercises or short, confidence-boosting starters to build engagement.
Facilitating an HE module in Environmental Science? Design collaborative activities, such as simulated policy negotiations, campus sustainability audits or group presentations analysing recent research that are aligned to assessment rubrics and graduate skill frameworks.

Tips:

Batch plan: Generate several activity ideas at once for a half-term’s worth of content.
Stretch and challenge: Prompt for ‘extension’ tasks to push high achievers.
Blend your formats: Ask the generator to recommend both digital and paper-based activities, especially useful for hybrid delivery models.
Theme your weeks: For example, “Discussion Monday,” “Practical Wednesday” or “Assessment Friday.” Use the tool to support each day’s focus.

Designed for: Adding variety to lessons, boosting learner engagement, and reducing last-minute planning stress for secondary, FE and HE teachers. Great for kick-starting the term with a variety of activities, as well as mapping out weekly schedules until half-term break.

(3) Customisable learner reports

Would you agree that report writing is one of the most time-consuming yet necessary administrative tasks for educators? It doesn’t have to be with the Learner Report Generator.

With this tool, you can take the strengths and areas for improvement you provide and build clear, constructive, and readable summaries that are suitable for termly reviews, parent communications, tutorial sessions, or learner progress meetings.

What it can do:

Draft full reports based on just a few bullet-point inputs.
Create a balanced, professional tone across all learner reports.
Include personalised targets and development strategies.
Save time without sacrificing individualised feedback.
Export in multiple formats for easy sharing or printing.

How you can use it:

For new-term tutorials: After your first few lessons or diagnostics, input key learner behaviours, strengths, or focus areas. Instantly generate reports that help guide 1:1 tutorials, track early interventions, or support SEND planning.
For pastoral check-ins: Use for student support conversations—especially useful for EAL or vulnerable learners. For example: “Builds strong peer relationships but requires support to remain focused during independent work.”
For subject-specific feedback: Teaching English? Focus on writing and analysis. Teaching Science? Highlight lab work, conceptual understanding, and accuracy. You can tailor reports to subject context with ease.
For parental communication: Especially helpful for SEND teams or Heads of Year. Turn quick notes into well-structured reports ready for parent evenings or review meetings.
For personal tutor meetings at the start of term: Quickly summarise initial impressions with new undergraduates or postgraduates, including strengths in early engagement, areas where additional academic skills support is needed and clear next steps to help them settle in–ideal for tracking progress in their personal development records.

Here are some example outputs using the Learner Report Generator:

Strengths:

[Learner Name] demonstrates excellent creative writing skills, crafting engaging stories with rich detail
[Learner Name] builds positive relationships with peers and contributes to a supportive learning environment

Areas for improvement:

Time management and punctuality
Refining communication to express ideas clearly
Increasing active participation in lessons

Tips:

Batch generate: Input several learners in one session to streamline mid-term reports.

Use as a baseline: Run initial reports in September, then refine again later in the term to track progress.

Pair with data: Use this tool alongside your assessment records or ILPs to generate data-informed commentary.

Set targets together: Generate a report, then edit it live with your student to co-create achievable goals.

Designed for: Personal tutors, lecturers, and secondary teaching staff preparing reports or setting targets for learners at the start of term.

(4) Feedback that’s fast, fair and formative

The new term brings new learners, new assignments and the start of the marking season. Whether you’re teaching GCSEs, A-levels, BTECs or Functional Skills, the Feedback Generator helps you get on top of your marking load early and stay there. Designed to save time without sacrificing quality, this tool gives you fast, structured feedback that’s clear, personalised and aligned to your curriculum and learner level.

What it can do:

Generate tailored feedback based on your assignment brief and student submissions
Provide formative or summative feedback aligned to UK Levels 1–4 or give informal learner-friendly advice
Suggest draft grades based on TeacherMatic’s rubrics or your own custom criteria
Create feedback in your preferred tone: formal for reports or informal for coaching-style guidance
Save hours during peak marking periods with batch-ready functionality

How you can use it:

KS4 GCSE assessments: Upload a student’s English or Science response and generate Level 2 formative feedback that scaffolds improvement — ready to refine and share during tutorials or parent updates.
BTEC and vocational coursework: Add your own assignment-specific rubric and generate summative feedback aligned to pass, merit or distinction criteria.
SEND and EAL learners: Prompt the generator to provide strengths-based feedback that’s clear, encouraging and adapted to learner needs.
First-year HE diagnostic assignments: Generate constructive formative feedback from essays and lab reports that highlights academic writing strengths and identifies early skill gaps to ensure students receive targeted support early, helping them build confidence and adjust to university-level expectations.

Tips:

Save your most-used rubrics or assignment briefs to speed up repeat use across different cohorts or subjects.
Combine with the Learner Report Generator for richer insights across progress reviews and pastoral notes.
Use the “No Grade” option when you want feedback without scores that’s ideal for scaffolding learning before a final assessment.

Designed for: School teachers, tutors and vocational educators who need efficient, learner-centred marking support, especially during the high-pressure September ramp-up.

(5) Presentations in minutes, not hours

From syllabus introductions to revision summaries, the start of term often calls for a wave of fresh presentations.

The PowerPoint Presentation Generator is a popular TeacherMatic tool included in the Pro Plan, helping you produce fully-drafted slide decks in minutes, so you can focus on delivering engaging content rather than building slides from scratch.

What it can do:

Create draft presentations in PPTX format on any topic you choose.
Add supporting text for each slide, ready for you to refine.
Suggest and insert relevant royalty-free images to enhance engagement.
Let you customise the number of slides, complexity level, colour schemes, and fonts.
Generate ready-to-edit decks for in-person or online delivery.

How you can use it:

Secondary science teachers: Need a KS4 Biology revision deck on ecosystems? Generate a 12-slide presentation including diagrams of food chains, energy flow and human impact on biodiversity.
FE vocational tutors: Teaching a Level 3 Health and Social Care module? Create a presentation outlining safeguarding principles, complete with case-study prompts and scenario images.
HE lecturers: Introducing a new first-year module in September? Draft an overview deck with key themes, reading lists, and assessment breakdowns to use in your welcome lecture.

Tips:

Add keywords or subtopics to the “Topics” box to improve slide relevance and image selection.
Treat the generated deck as your starting point to personalise examples, update statistics and adjust visuals for maximum impact.
For larger classes, add interactive slides (e.g., poll questions, discussion prompts) before delivery.

Designed for: Teachers, lecturers and trainers who need ready-made presentations for teaching, assessment prep or professional development sessions.

“[TeacherMatic] significantly improved the quality of one-to-one tutorials by automating the creation of smart targets. This means I can focus more on supporting my students directly, enhancing engagement and learning.”

– Jasmin Arey, Psychology Lecturer

“Writes lesson objectives, generates activity ideas, and so much more. This is a game changer for the overburdened teacher.”

– Toby Doncaster, Teacher

Spend less time planning and more time doing what really matters…

✅ Supporting learners
✅ Building relationships
✅ Delivering high-quality teaching
✅ Actually having a lunch break

…With everything you need for only £6.99 per month

All 150+ AI-powered generators are part of the TeacherMatic Professional Plan, which is designed to be the easiest way to reduce stress and workloads throughout the year, especially during the summer-September transition.

Plus, your daily generations increase from 1 to 150, allowing you to refine AI-generated content to suit your needs across multiple generators.

Free Plan

✓ 5 generations per day in your first week, then 1 generation per day thereafter
✓ Access to select AI generators
✓ Export in common formats

Professional Plan

✓ 150 generations per day
✓ Access to all 150+ generators

✓ Save, refine, and configure your results
✓ Just £6.99/month (incl. VAT)

Start using your Teacher’s AI Survival Kit

This year, give yourself the tools to feel confident, prepared and in control – whether you’re planning lessons, writing reports, giving valuable feedback or drafting presentation slides.

TeacherMatic is here to help…