Adaptive teaching: Challenge and progress

Great teaching is inclusive. ambitious, and responsive. Adaptive Teaching: Challenge and Progress is a practical, research-informed course that helps teachers create high-challenge learning environments where every student can thrive.

Moving beyond traditional differentiation, the course focuses on adaptive strategies that respond to real-time learner needs while maintaining high expectations for all. Teachers will explore how formative assessment, scaffolding, and metacognition can be used to plan and deliever learning that supports diverse students – including those with SEND and EAL – to develop independence and ownership.

Key themes include:

– The principles and purpose of adaptive teaching
– Moving beyond differentiation to maintain high expectations
– Using formative assessment to inform responsive teaching
– Applying scaffolding and metacognitive strategies to support learning
– Promoting inclusion, equity, and learner autonomy
– Designing ambitious learning intentions that meet diverse needs

By the end of the course, teachers will have the confidence and tools to plan and deliver adaptive lessons that meet every learner’s needs, ensuring engagement, progress, and independence across the curriculum.