The Early Career Framework defines adaptive teaching as providing “opportunity for all pupils to experience success, by adapting lessons, while maintaining high expectations for all, so that all pupils have the opportunity to meet expectations” (DfE, 2019).
This is a very different mindset to the old practices of differentiating by task or outcome, which often had the effect of placing a ceiling on what some children might achieve.
Adaptive teaching starts from the premise that all children are entitled to access the curriculum and that we can achieve this by implementing appropriate adaptations and being responsive in our teaching. This can be broken down into two areas:
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