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Adaptive Teaching for Inclusion
In this section you’ll find a range of writing and think pieces to inform continuous discourse on inclusive teaching.
It builds on trainee teachers’ prior knowledge and experiences and actively engages in rich tasks that help achieve conceptual understanding and transferable knowledge and skills.
It sets the platform for a blended approach of theory and practice. Adopting inquiry as a major learning strategy, this resource thoughtfully interweaves explicit instruction and well-scaffolded opportunities to practice and apply learning.
Trainees are encouraged to maintain a reflective log as they engage with the resources across the site.
Inclusivity – A constant journey toward a shared vision
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
Despite working in inclusion for years, it’s still easy to assume a shared understanding of the term, thinking that people know what we mean when we talk about it, but surprising how often these assumptions are misjudged.
Diagnosis is not enough: Research that shapes inclusive teaching
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
Why we should reconsider our strategies beyond a child’s diagnosis and plan our support based on their actual relative strengths and challenges.
Adaptive Skill – a commentary
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
Are we training teachers to develop ‘routine expertise’ or adaptive expertise?
Adopting an inclusive approach to pedagogy
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
“Which one research paper, study or blog post on SEND and inclusion should everybody read?”
Teaching needs adaptive expertise now more than ever
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
The pandemic has opened up the debate about what it means to be vulnerable in education and who might ‘struggle to learn’.
Bell Curve Thinking: The Heart of the Matter
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
An animation to show how bell curve thinking can be challenged, so that all children are at the heart of the teaching and learning in the classroom.
Introduction: A permeated approach
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
This slide deck can be used by ITT Providers with their teams of ITE Tutors and school mentors to show how adopting a permeated curriculum approach to teaching about special educational needs as part of ITT is needed.
Talking head: The moment I realised I couldn’t really crochet!
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
Supporting a child to recognise the aspect of a task that they don’t know, but which would make a difference to them moving forward, is an important first step.