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Do you know the difference between SEND and SEMH ?

Is there any overlap?

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History...

Examples of Differentiation:

Group levels & flexible groupings

Choice boards

Tiered tasks

Coloured Paper

Differentiated learning objectives (All, Most, Some)

'The action or process of differentiating or distinguishing between two or more things or people'

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Explore more searches like adaptive teaching

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How does this link to educational theories?

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How does this link to educational theories?

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Activity - Do emotions play a part? How can we support with these?

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Activity - Do emotions play a part? How can we support with these?

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Inside Out Movie Clip - Get To Know Your Emotions[HD1080i]

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Putting our knowledge into Adaptive Teaching

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Putting our knowledge into Adaptive Teaching

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Choose one aspect of SEND

Plan an activity to support the individual needs of the learner

Plan & justify Proactive / Reactive adaptive teaching

Pitch and sell the idea on the Teacher Training Dragons' Den programme

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Record your reflection points below...

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Intent:

To develop an understanding of a range of barriers and individual needs of learners

How to approach and embed adaptive teaching to support all learners.

Implementation:

Explore the approach of adaptive teaching

Research and identify how adaptive teaching and lesson planning are linked.

Discuss and identify how physical and cognitive disabilities may impact on learning.

Utilise Accessibility training to strengthen adaptive teaching.

Impact:

Trainees to develop a strong understanding of SEND and SEMH and how they can adapt their own planning, teaching, learning and assessments accordingly.

Trainees to make reasonable adjustments to their planning, teaching, learning and assessments and to consider/put these into to practice in a teaching and learning environment to provide an inclusive teaching and learning.

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In pairs:

Discuss and research barriers to learning,

Groups will provide 3 examples of

Emotional, Practical and Personal,

Social and Cultural,

Workplace and learning disabilities

Present your findings back to the group

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How might the following present themselves in students ?

1. Working memory limitations

2. Processing speed

3. Attention difficulties

4. Language and communication challenges

5. Cognitive load

6. Metacognitive deficits

7. Memory retrieval issues

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1. Limited mobility

2. Fatigue or pain

3. Fine motor difficulties

4. Participation in practical tasks

5. Hearing impairment

6. Sight impairment/visual fatigue

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1. Low self esteem or confidence

2. Fear of judgement or embarrassment

3. Anxiety or stress

4. Lack of emotional safety

5. Trauma or bereavement

6. Negative past learning experiences

7. Unmet emotional needs

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Will we pick you

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Dragons Den Adaptive T&L Group Profiles activity

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Identify Learner Needs-

You will be given a Scenario card and you will need to decide how you adapt to those student needs. Will you be proactive or reactive?

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1. Physical environment

2. Technology ( lack of devices, connectivity, availability of assistive technology)

3. Use of interactive whiteboards and digital tools

4. Peer relationships and dynamics

5. Home environment (indirect but influential)

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“A student with ADHD is distracted and leaves their seat.”

“Your visual aid isn’t working – the projector has failed.”

“An EAL student doesn’t understand the task instructions.”

“Half the class finishes early and becomes restless.”

“A student becomes anxious and refuses to participate.”

Each group must:

Pause

Discuss quickly

Adapt their lesson using an appropriate strategy

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Adaptive teaching is billed as the ultimate in flexible, personalised learning - but what does the wider research say, and how can it be used in the classroom?

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Lesson planning and adaptive teaching- literature cafe 

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Lesson planning and adaptive teaching- literature cafe 

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There are 3 Cafe tables

At each station, trainees:

Read the excerpt/article

Highlight key points

Discuss in small groups:

What theory is presented?

How does it relate to adaptive teaching?

What are the implications for lesson planning?

Keep all of your findings as we will have a group discussion, once everyone has had time to review the literature.

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The shift to adaptive teaching: A research-informed guide : My College

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MARK LESWELL, RESEARCH LEAD, SWALE ACADEMIES TRUST, UK Introduction The number of students identified as having special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is increasing. In England, for example, 1.7 million pupils were identified as having SEND in 2024, representing 18.4 per cent of all pupils (DfE, 2024). Despite our dedicated efforts, the educational outcomes for students […]

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Ms. Talbert felt great about the lessons she had planned for her high school seniors using Universal Design for Learning, a framework for differentiating learning experiences. Her learning intentions were for students to evaluate sources of evidence and use evidence they gathered to support claims. The lessons built from activities like combing through social media and news sources to find claims that weren't adequately supported to making their own claims supported by evidence. Ms. Talbert included issues and topics that were on students' minds. She clarified vocabulary and used multimedia, print, and audio as ways to access the content.

Later in the year, her students explored and analyzed the effects of baseless claims made online through fast-spreading social media. Finally, the class moved into discussions and debates. The class discussion became close to tense at times when students had conflicting opinions, all supported by evidence they deemed credible. But with Ms. Talbert's feedback and guidance, the groups used the class norms of collaboration to work through the dialogue in a productive manner. She beamed with pride as she watched the groups navigate difficult topics, strong opinions, and conflicting evidence.

Not everyone spoke in class or led discussions-but Ms. Talbert knew some students showed their best work by writing, others by speaking, and others through producing a creative product. She provided all these options for students to show their learning over time and was open to students' additional ideas of how that learning could be shown.

Why We Need Universal Design for Learning

Like Ms. Talbert's, every classroom is filled with individuals who vary wildly-and interestingly-in who they are as people. Their many experiences and genetics make them who they are-each one unique and wonderful. Some are strong with math, others are talented artists; some light up when it's time for science, and others love nothing more than getting lost in a fictional work. Some students speak multiple languages, but struggle in the language of instruction that is new to them.

For every student who loves a particular subject, there is another who is afraid of it, and another who finds it uninteresting.

Students not only vary in their skill level and preferences for academic content, but also in their social-emotional skills, development, and learning. This diversity in our classroom can pose instructional challenges, but it's also an asset! It presents the opportunity for students to learn from and with one another, gain an understanding of the interdependence within society, and celebrate one another's unique qualities. Diversity is in no way a limitation as long as we keep it top of mind when designing instruction and assessment.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL), originally designed by the organization CAST, is a framework that guides proactive design of classroom instruction and learning opportunities to make them effective for a broad range of learners (see ). UDL offers guidelines on how we can make our instruction and classroom environments welcoming, responsive, supportive, and flexible, so that the fewest students possible require additional support or adaptations.

The developers of the framework organized UDL strategies into three categories: (1) multiple means of engagement-how we engage and sustain students' interest and persistence; (2) multiple means of representation-how we ensure our instruction is accessible and improves students' understanding; and (3) multiple means of action and expression-how we support students to show their learning in multiple ways. Such strategies, individually, are neither new nor revolutionary. But UDL, informed by these three principles and connected to neurological and educational research, offers an actionable framework that educators can use to increase the accessibility and power of every lesson we design.

Planning for Multiple Means of Engagement

Every teacher can relate to occasional difficulty in gaining students' interest. What if, when a student is having trouble engaging in the classroom, instead of attributing the problem to the student, we reframed it as our problem with engagement, asking ourselves what the students' behavior might say about our teaching?

If we presume variability in students' interest and plan our engagement strategies with the least engaged student in mind, we'll probably engage all the students in the class. Figure 1 shows some smart strategies for universal engagement.

Figure 1: Strategies for Engagement

1. Start by connecting with students using positive interaction.

2. Demonstrate clarity of intentions and criteria for success.

3. Connect the purpose of the lesson to something of current relevance and value to students.

4. Provide students choices-from simple to significant-for their learning.

5. Make the learning space safe for taking risks and making mistakes.

6. Use novelty to gain students' interest.

7. Design activities that involve active exploration.

Include opportunities to investigate, reflect, make, create, or dialogue.

Have students move about the room during learning.

8. Design for small group instruction.

9. Use strategies to balance participation.

10. Offer strategies for students to cope with frustration, anxiety, and low confidence.

Planning for Multiple Means of Representation

Fifteen years ago, you may have had a phone, a camera, a calendar, a video recorder, a device for listening to music, and a computer for accessing the Internet. For traveling, you may have used a GPS or map and books for translating languages. Now, all these needs are met with one device. Because we have a customizable device with many options and functions, fewer people need specialized equipment. And while some still may prefer a physical calendar, say, we'd be hard pressed to find many people who own and use all those items.

Think of multiple means of representation-how we make our instruction accessible to all students-as a smartphone with many features and apps. Without a base of multiple means of representation planned into each lesson, teachers become exhausted trying to continually figure out how to differentiate content and deliver support to meet individual needs and maximize strengths. By investing effort in multiple means of representation during lesson planning, we minimize special adaptations, because we've designed up front for many types of variability. Figure 2 shows some strategies for doing so.

Giving options for multiple ways you present information to students is not the same as segmenting students using the long-debunked notion of different learning styles. It simply means that, in instruction, you always present content in various ways that resonate with students' different strengths and preferences for processing information-based on what you know of each learner and what you've seen in their learning experiences.

Figure 2: Strategies for Multiple Means of Representation

1. Teach metacognitive strategies for learning within context of this concept or skill.

Use analogies and metaphors.

Teach notetaking and study strategies.

Present a mnemonic orally and visually to help students remember new information-or help students create a mnemonic, such as a song.

Connect the concept to something students already know, using several modalities.

Chunk material into smaller pieces.

Create study guides with strategies for learning embedded.

2. Use multiple means to represent content, concepts, and skills.

3. Provide help with vocabulary, syntax, notations, and symbols.

4. Gradually release support to promote independence.

5. Create experiences for deliberate practice, spaced over time.

6. Give formative feedback.

Provide clear, ungraded feedback on products of learning and the process of learning.

Guide students to evaluate their own learning.

Conference with individual students about a product or process; help them generate a plan for what to do next.

Share feedback in ways that show confidence in the student's ability to learn.

Connect feedback to specific learning goals.

7. Use formative assessment to change instruction.

Use formative assessment of students' work and learning to:

Planning for Multiple Means of Action and Expression

There are many ways to measure a student's learning of any given skill or understanding. But too often, we use a single, teacher-designed assessment for all students. The premise is that a standardized assessment makes for a fairer assessment. In fact, giving a single option for showing learning advantages those students with strengths in that option. Some of our students are talented presenters but lack confidence as "test takers." Some find tests easy but are afraid of speaking in front of the class. Some have strengths in writing or graphic design. For many, the idea of something being timed produces a great deal of stress and interferes with showing their learning.

This variability in performance under different conditions affects educators' ability to see what students understand and can do if they only use a single type of assessment. For example, if the only option we give is a timed test, then students who have test anxiety or need more time for processing can't show what they know. The validity of the test is compromised because we didn't offer another option. The assessment is less fair because it's standardized.

This isn't to suggest that we give students options for the level of proficiency they show, only for the way they show it. We can have the same expectations for skills and understanding shown through a class presentation, say, as through a paper, test, or other measure. (Note that even when we use alternative measures, it's still important to document the need for extended time for students with disabilities, who will need this accommodation for state or national testing.)

Figure 3 shows many of the nearly countless ways we can have students demonstrate their understanding and skills. If the idea of giving students many different options for showing their learning feels overwhelming, teachers can start by identifying the typical assessment for an upcoming unit and selecting one alternative. Regardless of whether educators take this on full force or start small, the need for this practice is pressing.

Figure 3: Strategies for Multiple Means of Action and Expression

Ways Students Can Demonstrate Their Learning

Videorecorded presentation

Live presentation to the class-or to a teacher or external audience

Individual conference with a teacher

Written answers to given questions

Lesson taught live to another person

Physical model student constructs

Illustration or other visual art product

Essay, story, or other written product

Revision or improvement of an existing product

Solutions to given problems

Service activity related to the content/skill

Being interviewed on the content

Verbal response to given questions, or responding with a gesture or image

Realizing Their Brilliance

Many teachers recognize that each of their students is (wondrously) different, in how they take in information, how they practice and engage with content to learn it, and in how they show their learning. UDL gives teachers a way to present information in many formats, as Ms. Talbert did in her unit, so instruction can hit as many students' preferred ways of learning as possible. And UDL strategies make the most of assessment, since the purpose of our day-to-day classroom assessment is to inform teaching and learning. Providing students with options for how to express their learning gives each student the chance to show their best work. The resulting assessment types lend much more valid information and give teachers more precise direction on how to maximize learning for each child.

Without providing multiple means of presenting concepts and information, we won't reach all students. And without providing options for expression, we may never fully realize the brilliance many of our students have-brilliance often disguised by a counterfeit definition of how success in school must look.

Author's note: "Ms. Talbert" is a hypothetical teacher and situation. The strategies outlined here for engagement, representation, and expression are drawn from UDL resources, the professional research literature, strategies I've used, and my observations within classrooms. For additional strategies for applying UDL in lesson planning, visit http://udlguidelines.cast.org/ .

Copyright © 2021 Lee Ann Jung

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Lesson Planning with Universal Design for Learning

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Using UDL principles upfront means making fewer adaptations later-and reaching more students.

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3. Each pair gets one card and has 2 minutes to:

1. Define the intelligence or EI domain.

2. Give one example of how it shows up in teaching or learning.

3. Share a personal strength or challenge related to it.

4. After 2 minutes, rotate cards or partners.

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Complete the accessibility training

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On a sticking note finish the two sentences and share

"Now I know that adaptive teaching means..."

"So I will adapt my teaching by..."

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Intent:

To develop an understanding of a range of barriers and individual needs of learners

How to approach and embed adaptive teaching to support all learners.

Implementation:

Explore the approach of adaptive teaching

Research and identify how adaptive teaching and lesson planning are linked.

Discuss and identify how physical and cognitive disabilities may impact on learning.

Utilise Accessibility training to strengthen adaptive teaching.

Impact:

Trainees to develop a strong understanding of SEND and SEMH and how they can adapt their own planning, teaching, learning and assessments accordingly.

Trainees to make reasonable adjustments to their planning, teaching, learning and assessments and to consider/put these into to practice in a teaching and learning environment to provide an inclusive teaching and learning.

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Learners and learning assessment 2- critical incident analysis on first observation

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Learners and learning assessment 2- critical incident analysis on first observation

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You are required to produce an essay, a reflective piece on your first observation.

CertEd- 1500 words

PGCE- 2000 words

Harvard referencing.

What do the handbooks say- let's look

Introduction to framework and using Word to set out an assignment.

Formative 28th November

Summative 12th December

Any questions.

Also need first observation to have taken place, so let's book them ASAP.