Adaptive Teaching for Mainstream Schools

A ready-to-use professional development presentation for schools exploring adaptive teaching and SEND within the mainstream classroom.

The presentation begins with the SEND Code of Practice and the relationship between high-quality teaching and special educational provision before moving into practical approaches teachers can use within everyday classroom practice, using the EEF 5 a day SEND Recommendations.

The presentation covers

The SEND Code of Practice and the definition of special educational provision
The importance of making high-quality teaching ordinarily available to pupils
What adaptive teaching means in practice
Taking account of prior knowledge, skills, barriers and misconceptions
Flexible grouping
Cognitive and metacognitive strategies
Explicit instruction
Effective use of technology
Scaffolding
Practical classroom examples for each approach
Questions for staff and whole-school reflection.

Examples include temporary and purposeful grouping, pre-teaching vocabulary, chunking tasks, checklists and prompts, worked examples, teacher modelling, visualisers, writing frames, knowledge organisers and strategies for supporting classroom routines.

The final section provides reflection questions that can be used to support professional discussion about whether adaptive teaching is understood and used consistently across a school.

Suitable for

Whole-school staff meetings
SEND CPD
SENCO-led professional development
Teacher development
ECT development
Teaching assistant development
Inclusion-focused training
Mainstream primary and secondary schools.

The presentation can be used as a complete staff-development session or adapted by the SENCO or school leader to suit the context of their school.

13-slide editable PowerPoint presentation.

Created by Ordinary Classrooms Educational Consultancy