5 Ways To Adapt Your Teaching

 

5 Ways To Adapt Your Teaching

Adaptive teaching is the buzz phrase within teacing in 2024-25 and for good reason. Whilst it has always been with us as part of our daily teaching toolkit, it has gained greater significance under ofsted inspection frameworks, and more notably through the decline in the completely different but associated Differentiation, maligned for its work load issues.

Here are 5 ways to adapt your teaching in the classroom with minimum fuss. 

1 Colloborating Facilitating peer or group work lets students experience different perpectives on themes explored and receive support when developing their own concepts. 

2 Chunking All students benefit from learning through breaking down content into bitesize pieces of information. Some complex theories require carefull processes that reveal the concept gradually to ensure students are understanding the information. 

3 Revisiting Activating prior knowledge at the beginning of the lesson can help guide the lessons narrative. What I know, what I need to know, and what have I learnt at the end of the lesson. 

4 Visualizing Visualizing tools like graphic organisers and infographics can help students understand a concept by presenting information that allows the students to create links between concepts. Using the visual and audio channels medium (Dual Coding) is a proven learning strategy. 

5 Scaffolding Providing students with an inititial starting point from which to develop their answers, by presenting them with sentence starters or specific questions within a writing framework, can lead to more indepth responses.

There are obviously a multitude of ways to adapt teaching in the classroom. If you have any efficent and successful ways of adapting your teaching as part of your classroom practice please let me know.