Bloomate For tutors who teach students with SEN
Help a student with SEN get back on task, during class.
When a class is not working, Bloomate suggests techniques based on research and specialist advice. It can also turn any topic into a short game made for that student. After class, log what worked, ready to show their parents.
Every suggestion
See why each technique fits, and where it comes from.
Each suggestion says why it fits this student and how to try it now. Open it to see what the evidence says and where it comes from.
You decide whether to use it.
Offer a choice of two
Why this fits Choosing the order went well in class 6.
What the science says · Source
From the technique library
“Reduce the number of open choices: instead of ‘what do you want to work on first?’, offer two options.”
Understood.org · 2024
I tried this technique
End of class
Give stamps for effort. They are never taken back.
Choose the efforts you want to notice, such as trying again or asking for help. At the end of class, give a stamp for each one you saw.
The student sees their stamps add up towards a reward you set. A mistake never removes a stamp.
1. You give the stamps
Stamps earned this class (0123)
Tap an effort to give a stamp.
2. You show the student
You show the student
3 stamps today
- Kept going after a mistake ×2
- Asked for help when stuck
Reward reached: pick a prize from the prize box.
Over a month
See what has worked for this student, across classes.
Bloomate puts the classes you logged on one page. It shows mood and focus as you recorded them, the days you tried a technique, and how each technique went. The Class log shows how each technique went in each class.
When a parent asks how it is going, you have something to show them.
Mood and focus, last 30 days
MoodFocusA technique tried
Emotional support
Worked well ×2Worked somewhat ×1
Class tools
Worked well ×1Did not work ×1
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Questions tutors ask
Does Bloomate replace me?
No. It does not teach. You do, and the product is built to keep it that way.
Bloomate reads what you logged and proposes something you might try next. You decide whether it is right for the student in front of you. Nothing it generates reaches a parent or a child until you have read it and can change or discard it — and it is labelled as a suggestion wherever it appears, because that is what it is.
Students have no account and no way to type anything into it. The only person entering anything is you.
Who is Bloomate built for?
We design for students with SEN first, and for everyone else second. That order is deliberate. A pre-registered trial of personalised instruction by de Barros, Ganimian and Muralidharan (2023) found no average effect across 3,331 students — and +0.22 standard deviations for those who started with the lowest scores. The same effort does most of its work in one place.
Hong Kong first, one-to-one tutors, ages six to fifteen.
Writing
- We describe the moment, not the student
By the time you meet a student, their school reports may have described them by what they lack for years. Nothing Bloomate writes describes a student that way.
- A trial where personalised teaching helped some students, not all
A large trial found that personalised teaching made no difference to maths results on average. For the students with the lowest scores at the start, it made a large one.
- What you give the parent
At the end of a month, a parent often sees very little of the work. A short record of what you tried, and what happened, shows it. You write it during the class.