These slides, explore what adaptive teaching is, how it differs from traditional differentiation and how it can support diverse classrooms. They cover practical ways to identify barriers, assess pupil needs and make small, responsive adaptations without reducing the challenge of the intended learning.

You’ll learn how to:

• plan accessible and ambitious learning goals
• use formative assessment to identify barriers and support needs
• use strategies including visual learning, explicit vocabulary teaching, scaffolding and flexible grouping
• choose the smallest useful adaptation and review whether it’s working
• maintain curriculum intent while adapting support for individual pupils.

Want to put it into practice? Download our free adaptive teaching planning tool to help you identify barriers, choose purposeful adaptations and review what works for your pupils.