How edtech solutions can save time and cut teacher workloads!

As BETT 2019 gets underway, we’re discussing edtech revolutions and how investing in edtech for your school can provide a number of teaching and learning benefits. 

Why invest in edtech?

From a teaching perspective, edtech solutions can reduce teacher workloads, decrease time spent marking and give you back the hours spent on lesson planning. Speaking at BETT 2019 in London today, Education Minister, Damian Hinds, is expected to announce £10 million for a new edtech strategy aimed at improving teaching, cutting workload and revolutionising education. 

Hinds has said “More than half of teachers’ time is spent on non-teaching tasks, including planning, marking and admin, and that workload is one of the most common reasons for teachers leaving the profession.” Developing Experts science curriculum product Mission:Science has been created in house by our team of resident scientists and ex-teachers to relieve these pressures that teachers face. With self-marking quizzes, 700+ lessons mapped against the national curriculum and 6 other global curricula, expert videos, printable worksheets, group tasks and an array of practical experiments, we ensure that your science curriculum is planned and ready to go, in turn reducing teacher workloads and saving time.


Sounds like a no brainer, right? Now let’s consider the learning benefits of edtech. Not only do we ease the pressure on teachers, but Mission:Science also inspires learners on a journey of discovery.  They grow with the platform, from learning basic scientific vocabulary and knowledge about the world around them at EYFS and KS1, to grasping scientific processes and thinking more about careers in STEM at KS3 and beyond.

The beauty of edtech is having a whole world of learning content at the click of a button. Edtech platforms, like Developing Experts, allow teachers to expose students to a broader knowledge base, improve students’ cultural capital, provide curriculum mapped revision material, and allow for independent learning. In addition (and most importantly) edtech platforms like Developing Experts allow students to take control of their learning at a pace that suits them. Developing Experts provides learning content for all levels: for those who require the fundamentals of understanding the world around them, to those who are aspiring science superstars. 

At Developing Experts, our content helps build students’ cultural capital as well as their science skills and knowledge. Within Mission: Science, we introduce your learners to the knowledge and skill sets of global scientists, from all different kinds of both academic and personal backgrounds. Introduce girls to Dr. Suze Kundo and watch them gaze in wonder as they discover her wealth of knowledge, gained through her 5 degrees. Or introduce your wildlife lovers to our in-house Zoologist, Mike Linley, as he opens up gates of the animal kingdom in front of your eyes. With these scientists (plus 100 more!) we’re helping to build your learners’ cultural capital, as well as their science skills and knowledge. 

With budgets and time limited, we want to make sure that when you invest in an edtech solution, it is the right one for your school. We’re giving all schools free access to our science teaching edtech platform for 14 days. That’s a free 14 day trial.  

Simply start your trial here. Or, let’s make it more personal. Email our customer service whiz, Katie Barrie, at [email protected] and she will happily set you and your school up with your very own free trial. 

Now, have an explore of Mission:Science and see how we are revolutionising science teaching. With advances in technology, and Hinds endorsement of edtech a worthwhile investment in schools. Put your school ahead of the game with a subscription to Developing Experts, or find out more about us, atleast.