For teachers, homeschooling families, tutors and schools
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It isn't your teaching. It's a curriculum you're still learning, evenings lost to planning and worksheets, weeks that never go to plan, and children who speak different languages at home. Lessonsmith is a teaching assistant that prepares all of it for you, always at least a month ahead: the plan, every lesson and every worksheet. And it keeps them right when things change.
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Free to start. In 16 languages.
For teachers
In a school, running your own classes, or tutoring privately: Lessonsmith plans your year to your curriculum and prepares each lesson with you.
Four common problems
“I've never taught Cambridge. I have to learn it myself before I can teach it.”
Lessonsmith finds the official curriculum, or reads yours from a PDF or a photo of the page, and lays it out topic by topic, with how many lessons each one needs. Before each topic, it gives you a short explainer to learn it first, so you walk in sure of it.
“Planning, studying and making worksheets. That's where my evenings go.”
Every lesson arrives ready, in the order you'd teach it: what to say, a worked example, questions with their answers, the mistakes to watch for, and a worksheet to print. Change anything you like.
“A holiday, an exam, an assembly, and my plan is two lessons behind.”
Move a lesson and the rest of the course moves with it. A double period gets a lesson that fills it. Tell it what you actually covered, and the next lesson starts where your class really is.
“My pupils speak Tamil, Mandarin and Malay at home. The examples in the textbook come from none of their lives.”
Tell Lessonsmith which language your pupils speak and where they live. It writes the lesson in that language, with names, places and examples from their own lives, and the same maths and the same care for every child.
Here is what a week looks like.
Sunday evening
Nothing to prepare. The week's lessons and worksheets are already there.
Monday, on the way in
Listen to today's lesson read aloud, hands-free.
Tuesday
An exam takes your period. Move the lesson once; the rest of the course follows.
Wednesday
A colleague is off sick. The office sees who is free that period and asks one of them to take the class, in one tap.
Friday
What you really taught this week is on record, so Monday starts where your class really is.
How it works
1
Before a new topic, a short explainer for you, or a fuller course if the topic is new to you.
2
The plan says what happens first, next and last, and you can reorder any of it. The worksheet and the examples come from the same material.
3
Classwork and homework on the same concepts, marked for you where they can be, so you see who has it and who needs another go.
Every child, in their own language
A teacher sets a simple speed problem: a car travels 100 km at 40 km an hour, so how long does the journey take? Lessonsmith rewrites it for each child in the language they speak at home, with names and journeys from their own life. The maths, the difficulty and the answer stay exactly the same.
தமிழ்
ராமகிருஷ்ணன் 100 கி.மீ. தொலைவில் உள்ள பாட்டி வீட்டுக்கு மணிக்கு 40 கி.மீ. வேகத்தில் காரில் செல்கிறார். அங்கு சென்றடைய எவ்வளவு நேரம் ஆகும்?
Ramakrishna drives to his grandmother's house, 100 km away, at 40 km an hour. How long will it take?
简体中文
李先生一家开车去100公里外的外婆家，车速是每小时40公里。他们需要多长时间才能到达？
The Lee family drives to grandma's house, 100 km away, at 40 km an hour. How long will it take?
Bahasa Melayu
Keluarga Putri memandu balik ke kampung yang jauhnya 100 km dengan kelajuan 40 km sejam. Berapa lamakah masa yang diambil untuk sampai?
Putri's family drives back to their home village, 100 km away, at 40 km an hour. How long will it take?
Every version has the same answer: 100 ÷ 40 = 2½ hours.
You tell Lessonsmith once which language a class speaks and where the children live. English is the default, and any of 16 languages works. Every lesson it writes for that class follows.
Your curriculum, your way
CBSE, ICSE, Cambridge, Malaysia's KSSM, Singapore's MOE: Lessonsmith finds the official curriculum, lays it out lesson by lesson, and tells you when a new version is out.
A PDF, photos of the pages, even screenshots. It reads them word for word, and you check before anything is saved.
No published curriculum? A subject of your own, or one your school teaches as part of its mission, such as Quranic studies? Say what it is for, and Lessonsmith drafts the year with you. What you write stays yours.
US$40 a month, or US$400 a year
Teaching privately or freelance? Your own students and classes live in your own workspace, on the same plan.
You can always plan one month past the date you've paid until: a monthly plan sees two months ahead, a yearly plan sees the year and a month more, and a free classroom sees 45 days, with 30 more every 30 days. Everything you make stays yours.
Start your own classroomFor schools
Three parts that work together. Take the one you need, or all three.
At the heart
Works beside every teacher: the year planned to your curriculum, each lesson prepared and explained, worksheets at each child's level, report cards that follow your own gradebook.
Runs the school, and tells the principal and the office each morning what needs them: staff away and cover, registers, fees, admissions, the government return.
Speaks for your school to families and the community: news, events and admissions, planned for you.
For homeschooling families
A year planned from your board's curriculum, in the language you speak at home, with every lesson prepared for you.
Families use the same plan as a single teacher.
For self-learners
A plan that runs to your exam date, at your own pace, with lessons that explain as you go. We're building it now.
Until then, a parent or tutor can plan with you on the single-teacher plan.
16 languages, with British and American English. Switch any time.
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