Adaptive Teaching Done Well: Practical Strategies That Make A Difference

Description

Adaptive teaching should raise expectations — not lower them. This highly practical session focuses on how teachers can respond to learner variability while maintaining challenge for all. Participants will explore easy-to-use classroom strategies that are sustainable, efficient and rooted in strong pedagogy, with a strong focus on turn-up-and-teach approaches that require little or no additional preparation.

For the final 30 minutes, the session will move to a leadership-focused discussion on action planning and embedding practice. At this point, the session will continue with middle and senior leaders to agree on the next steps and ensure effective implementation.

Target Audience

  • All classroom Teachers across all phases
  • TAs

Learning Objectives

  • Clarify what effective adaptive teaching looks like in practice.
  • Develop practical strategies to support diverse learners without lowering expectations.
  • Make adaptive teaching part of everyday practice — not extra work.

About the Presenter

  • Isabella Wallace

    Isabella Wallace

With her critically acclaimed Pimp Your Lesson! “Talk-Less Teaching” and “Best of the Best: Practical Classroom Guides”. Isabella is a leading light in educational reform and teacher improvement. She focuses on improving the quality of teaching and learner progression and delivers sessions that are highly interactive and relevant to teaching in the real classroom.

Isabella has extensive experience as both a teacher and leader, and the accessibility of her highly sought-after training reflects this. She has worked closely with education authorities to develop literacy teaching provision, and to set up, manage and monitor staff coaching systems in schools.

Thanks to her charisma, enthusiasm and knowledge of what works best, Isabella has delivered training across four different continents and is one of the most prolific education consultants working in the UK today.