adaptive teaching: a practical guide to Differentiation
Sue Cowley has taught in the early years, primary and secondary phases, as well as working with adults, and so she understands the needs and challenges of different sectors in terms of adaptive teaching, differentiation and working with mixed attainment groups. This course can be run as either an online session (1.5 hours), a twilight (up to 2 hours), a half day option (two sessions), or a full day course, allowing time for future curriculum planning. During this course, Sue uses a combination of training slides, practical demonstrations and group activities to help staff learn how to adapt their teaching and differentiate more effectively, supporting and challenging all their learners.
During the course, Sue can cover some or all of the following topics:
During the course, Sue can cover some or all of the following topics:
- A brief history of inclusion
- Key principles of adaptive teaching
- The 'Myth of Average' - planning for the outliers
- Getting to know your learners
- What differences are there?
- Building on learner interests
- Practical approaches to scaffolding
- Practical strategies for supporting learners
- Practical strategies for creating stretch and challenge
- Advice for supporting learners with EAL and SEND
- Group work - rights, roles and responsibilities
- Developing higher order thinking
- Using Socratic questioning to stretch and challenge